Associate Principal - Corporate Finance - IT - CA

1. Budgeting and Forecasting:

- Revenue and Margin budgeting and rolling forecast (monthly)

- Track actuals against plan; variance analysis

2. MIS reporting

- Prepare monthly MIS, analyze and interpret performance of business KPIs (Revenue / Cost / Margin) and identify trends across businesses and regions

- Provide actionable insights to business / CEO office

- Standardize management reporting across group

3. Long-term planning

- Manage end-to-end annual budgeting process

- Work with business, delivery and shared services to prepare 3 / 5-year budgets

- Build scenarios and conduct what-if analysis

4. Pipeline and Deal structuring

- Pipeline governance, analysis and reporting; work with business to ensure pipeline is accurate, capture reasons for change,

- Track wins/losses, pipeline metrics such as new pipeline addition, conversion %, days to convert, average deal size, ACV and TCV, services which have better conversion/ deal sizes

- Work with pre-sales / solutioning team to structure multi-year deals; Prepare financial models to analyze impact of new businesses

5. Team management

- Manage a team of finance professionals to achieve above goals

- Manage hiring, training performance evaluations

6. Process and Technology

- Automate manual processes

- Evaluate tools to automate manual / excel-based reports

- Help develop dashboards to promote self-service

Qualification

- Qualified CA with 15+ years experience

- Experience in BU finance roles will be preferred

- Experience in being part of technology refresh / rolling out new tools in the FP&A space will be a plus

Skills

- Good excel and financial modelling skills

- Good verbal and spoken communication

- Good analytical skills, detail-oriented,

- Willingness to dig into numbers

- Self-driven, takes initiative