Assistant Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Education & Skilling Group

The client is a multi-faceted, end-to-end solution provider in the education and skill development sectors. They are looking to hire enthusiasts for their team as Assistant Manager.

Responsibilities :

- Analyze the trends of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), especially relating to financial metrics such as sales, expenditures, and profit margin.

- Monitor KPIs and identify the cause of any unexpected variances

- Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecast

- Present the monthly and quarterly financial reports of various units and departments

- Implement a business intelligence tool and dashboard reports

- Develop financial models and analyze them to support strategic initiatives

- Support management team and the Heads of Department with data-driven analysis

Financial Planning :

- Working with business heads to prepare annual budgets for individual business lines and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget.

- Discussions with business to understand the business model, prepare granular operational plan, design KPI's applicable to the business and ensure a framework for operational monitoring across the year is built.

- Computation of common cost allocations for each department.

- Preparation of short term and long-term forecasts of the firm under various scenarios and come up with metrics to monitor action plans.

Business Review and Analysis -

- Review of monthly actuals along with variance analysis for each business verticals to ensure actuals represent right summary of business operations.

- Preparation of monthly Actual Vs Budget P&L and circulating the same to business heads.

- Preparing internal MIS reports / decks for executive leadership and supporting their decision making.

- Analyse trends of Key Performance Indicators (KPI), especially relating to financial metrics such as sales, expenditures, and profit margin.

- Monitor KPI and identify the cause of any unexpected variances.

- Project wise profitability computation.

- Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of each department of the company and ensure best practices are identified and cascaded down.

- Automate budgeting and reporting process using various tools and brainstorm to build various - dashboards and reports that provide key information to business leaders.