Role Summary

The Assistant Manager FP&A will partner with business leaders and finance teams to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, variance analysis, and decision support. This role ensures financial insights are provided in a timely manner and helps drive business profitability and strategic decisions.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning and forecasting cycles, working closely with business units to gather inputs, build models, and update financial projections.

- Prepare and present monthly/quarterly performance reports (P&Ls, balance sheet impacts, KPIs), comparing actual results vs budget/forecast, and highlight variances with analysis of root causes.

- Support management in preparing financial analyses and business cases for strategic initiatives, investments, or operational changes.

- Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate business opportunities, sensitivity analysis, scenario planning.

- Drive cost-control and efficiency initiatives: identify cost trends, recommend actions, monitor savings and expense optimisation.

- Work closely with accounting to ensure accurate data for forecast vs actuals, ensure month-end close reconciliations, accruals, etc.

- Create dashboards, metrics, and MIS reporting for leadership, enabling data-driven decisions.

- Partner with cross-functional teams (Operations, Sales, Marketing, etc.) to translate business drivers into financial forecasts, and conversely translate financial targets into actionable business plans.

- Support ad-hoc financial projects, analyses, or special assignments as required.

- Identify process improvements in FP&A functions; implement automation or better tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts.

Qualifications & Skills

- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics. A Masters (MBA) or professional qualification (CA / CPA / CFA) is preferred.

- 5-8 years (or relevant years) of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, business finance, or related role. Experience in a multinational / shared services environment is a plus.

- Strong financial modelling skills, advanced proficiency with Excel. Skills in tools like Power BI, Tableau, or other BI/reporting tools are advantageous.

- Good knowledge of accounting principles and financial statements; understanding of cost accounting, accruals, variance analysis.

- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, ability to interpret large data sets.

- Excellent communication & presentation skills able to distil complex financial data into clear insights for senior management.

- Business partnering skills comfortable working with non-finance stakeholders to gather inputs, influence decision-making.

- High ownership, self-starter attitude; ability to meet deadlines, manage priorities.

- Adaptability to changing business environment; capability to work under pressure.

Experience & Expectations

- Demonstrable experience coordinating budget/forecasting cycles.

- Proven track record of delivering variance analysis and identifying actionable insights.

- Experience in implementing process improvements or automation within FP&A function.

- Exposure to multi-function work; collaborating widely across departments.

Possible Reporting & Structure

- Reports to (for example) Senior Manager / Manager FP&A or Head of Finance.

- May manage or mentor analysts.

- Work interacts heavily with operations, accounting, sales/marketing, other functional leads.

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Posted By

Ramchandra Tripathi

Sourcing Partner at LIVE CONNECTIONS

Last Active: 05 December 2025

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