Assistant Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - BPO/Media

Assistant Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities -

- Ensure that all internal monthly Actuals reporting, annual Budgeting and quarterly Forecasting is delivered in a timely and accurate way (P&L and Balance Sheet), balancing speed, efficiency and quality.

- Deliver best in class financial information and analysis to the CFO/ Board, senior management, service line leaders, business operations, providing timely, sound and clear financial analysis of current results and insights on impacts to future performance.

- Summarise the financial trends across businesses, geographies, brands and capabilities into Board level executive summaries.

- Leading and delivering global FP&A projects working with different stakeholders across the global finance team.

- Identify and pursue actionable opportunities to improve the financial performance of the global business.

- Drive P&L, Working Capital and Cash Conversion analysis across the globe.

- Develop new reporting formats such as tableau / Power BI dashboard reports using the

Group consolidation system data (and other operational data), to drive improved self-serve and standardised reporting. Anticipate internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues and recommend how the business should prepare.

- Maintain a robust FP&A control environment that adheres to the Group policies and embeds best practice across the business.

Business Partnering

- Provide best in class reporting and analysis to the Execs, Service Line leadership, Global Brands.

- Provide ad hoc analysis as required by the Global teams, including the Exec, Business Operations, Service Lines, HR, Operational Finance.

Team development :

- Be an active part of the Group Finance team, focusing on developing a professional, high performing function. This will include prioritising staff development and putting in place the best structure to deliver the FP&A vision for the business.

- Build strong team ethos with the regional and local Finance teams.

Requirements -

- Qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 4-6 years of experience, or Post graduate/MBA with 8-10 years of experience in FP&A, Analytics, MIS and Management Reporting in a fast paced, ambitious and multinational environment.

- Strong advanced excel skills, passion for data crunching and analysis is a must

- Experience of working in Dashboarding and data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI is a must

- Proven experience of business partnering and commercial acumen, with proven capability to communicate financial performance to senior executives

- Clear record of driving end-to-end FP&A process improvements

- Experience of finance transformation projects, will be an added advantage

- Knowledge of SAP BPC and Media or Digital sectors will be an advantage