Oracle - AM/DM - Business Finance

Job Description: IC3

Position Offered: Assistant Manager / Deputy Manager (IC3 - Individual Contributor Role)

Organization: Global Business Finance (GBF) / Bangalore

Organization overview:

- The GBF Team is responsible for providing the Business Finance support to various Business groups of Oracle Corporation.

- Each of Oracle Business group is headed by a Business leader and Partnered by a Finance Lead. The Regional / Business Finance Team are organized as In-country finance team and also Global GBF Centre (GFIC GBF) based out of Bangalore.

Role Overview:

- The selected candidate will be assigned for supporting business leader / finance leader for a particular line of business for an assigned geography.

- The person will be part of Global Business Finance team (GBF) and will be part of GFIC GBF Team in Bangalore.

Business Finance Partner:

Roles & Responsibilities:

(indicative - Including but not limited to)

- Develop clear understanding of key business drivers, analyze key financial metrics, provide value add analysis, support to sales / finance management.

- Partner with finance / business management teams, identify and track appropriate performance measures, key performance indicators and associated drivers.

- Influence and drive business decision / action with appropriate analysis and comments.

- Proactive in reviewing financial information, identifying exception / inconsistencies, initiate action and follow-up for logical closure.

- Participate in revenue forecast calls and highlight risk /opportunities with appropriate analysis.

- Ownership of expenses forecast for the business group – by using trend analysis / KPI reviews for better P&L management.

- Provide daily updates / flash to finance and sales management on the close progress.

- Lead revenue close process - deal tracking, collaborate with upstream and downstream process team for resolutions.

- Participate in monthly close calls with the controller’s organization for P&L Review.

- Prepare financial information & analysis for business reviews / presentations with key highlights.

- Handle complex adhoc request with a short turnaround time and supplement such request with appropriate analysis and comments to support decision making.

- Support finance / business leader in simulation of revenue projections and corresponding expenses working including working out margin protection / improvement plans.

- Develop Budget modeling by establishing KPI’s / Run rates.

- Participate in budget discussion and support scenario building / simulation modeling.

- Preparation of budget pack / presentation with appropriate budget comments to support budget reviews including submission for divisional / corporate consolidation.

- Support quota setting process by providing analysis/intelligence as required.

- Support the compensation plan issuance / submission process including clarification of any queries if any?

- Tracking of sales performance against set targets and provide periodical updates to business.

- Lead / Participate / Drive standardization & automation projects for process efficiency.

Profile Requirement:

- The Candidate should be holding a Professional degree (CA / CPA / CMA / CIMA / MBA Finance from reputed institute) with 7 to 10 years of Relevant Experience.

- Prior experience in Relevant Industry / Business Facing Roles will be an added advantage.

- Demonstrate strong Communication / Presentation Skills and ability to work with peers and counterparts in a global / multi location setup.

- Expertise in Office Tools - MS Excel, Power Point Skills.

- Exposure to ERP environment & system based reporting - BI Reporting, Hyperion / Essbase etc.

- The candidate should be proactive, self starter, strong Team Player - Role would require interaction with Cross functional teams (Globally).