Senior Director - Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Scope :

- Reports to Vice President Finance APAC

- Trusted Finance Leader, across India

- Key finance business partner to GM and other key executives

- Manage finance team of 4-6

Job Requirements :

- As a member of the organization, you will manage finance team and drive key cross functional business practices such as management of the budget, forecasting processes, key management reviews, value-added analytics designed to simplify and drive actionable results.

- Develop, recommend, and implement financial policies, practices, and process changes.

- Directs and ensures the implementation of operational policies through team and cross-group stakeholders.

- Interacts internally and externally with executive management negotiation of difficult matters to influence policy.

- Functional expertise and broad company knowledge. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

- Serves as process owner; ability to identify cross-functional issues;

- Optimize/ customize analytics formats/ presentation based on latest business dynamics.

- Demonstrated leadership skills.

- Ability to lead a team of analysts to their optimal performance

- Develop, motivate and direct a team in a dynamic environment

- Minimum 12 years relevant experience preferably in MNC environment;

- Degree in Accounting / Finance along with CA/ CPA/MBA desired.

Candidate Profile:

The right individual for this role is a proven, strategic finance executive with a passion toward operational excellence, great attention to detail, highly motivated manager and a proven ability to work with executive leadership. The candidate's professional history should demonstrate significant increasing responsibility and a career path leading to a CFO level position in a fortune 500 company.

- 15 - 20 years related experience at Operational and/or Corporate / HQ level is required

- Minimum 10 years of managerial experience

- Proven ability to support an Executive Vice President of a business unit

- MBA desired

- Excellent analytic skills, attention to detail

- Outstanding project management and organizational skills

- Ability to thrive in an environment with ambiguity and change

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to work well in a cross-functional team

- Self-directed, proactive with ability to multi-task

- Energetic and positive attitude in the face of stress

- Ability to foster, teach and develop staff in cross cultural environment

- Fluent in English