Assistant Manager/Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFSI

Responsibilities

- Work closely with various stakeholders to understand business transactions

- Ensure appropriate accounting & Reporting of expenses

- Financial Planning and Analysis

- Prepares monthly summary of actuals posted in SAP

- Prepares variance analysis on monthly actuals results versus forecasts

- Identifies relevant transactions and takes these into account for management reporting and forecasting

- Clarifies with other cross-functional teams in Finance (Business Process Teams, Legal Entity Controllers, and others) any material transaction or book adjustments made on Budgeting and Forecasting

- Obtains and discusses budget assumptions with Business Unit (Finance, Comp/Ben and function units)

- Prepares and facilitates the Strategic & Annual budgeting and monthly forecast process

- Prepares YTG forecast based on latest Marketing plan and business assumptions

- Ensures adherence to the Approval matrix as set forth by company policies and guidelines and/or other regulations or legislation

- Perform Reporting and prepare dashboards on performance

- Supports and facilitates discussion of Strategic & Annual budget and monthly rolling estimates

- Explain Marketing & Operating Expense variances versus prior year, budget plan and prior forecast

- Evaluates and communicates impact of changes in assumption(s) to BU Finance

- Provides risk and opportunity analysis for the current forecast

- Prepares and publishes Expense reports to relevant parties

- Identifying causes of significant or unusual business trends and variances by conducting research (e.g., run reports, run queries) via client interviews, data verification, and/or transaction level research, etc.;

- Developing action plans to resolve variances during the rolling estimate process by working collaboratively with a cross-functional team

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum qualifications

- Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis with some knowledge of Marketing Expense Management, Budgeting and Forecasting, and operating expense planning

- Excellent written & verbal communication skills

- High proficiency in MS Office preferably with extensive database modelling experience and advanced working knowledge of MS Excel

- Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small: showing concern for all aspects of the job, accurately checking processes and tasks.

- Determining Financial Impact: Understanding the financial consequences of decisions

- Good Knowledge of FP&A concepts like Variance Analysis

- Good accounting concepts

Preferred qualifications

- English Intermediate

- Prior experience in FMCG industry preferred

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