AVP - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFSI/KPO

Title: Assistant Vice President

Role summary:

- Lead a team that offers decision support service to the CFO team (Business Partners) by preparing analyses and reports.

- Oversee the support offered on planning (AOP), latest estimates (LE) and forecasting.

- Provide thought leadership and manage ad-hoc requests quickly and independently and also be able to prioritize these requests, ensuring these are agreed with the Head.

- Continuous review of processes with the objective of improving the service delivery timeframes and identify areas of improvement.

- Ensure operational efficiency and higher productivity utilizing, where possible, Six Sigma Lean process improvement methodologies.

- Create an environment within the team which fosters free sharing of knowledge & ideas.

- Maintain internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by Business Partners.

Candidate Summary:

- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA or CIMA) or MBA from Tier 1 institution with +10 post qualification experience (PQE) in Business/Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Analytics, Financial Control, Management Accounting and Group-level Consolidation.

- Experience in data mining, advanced analysis, offering decision support insights, financial statement analysis.

- Strong working knowledge of Financial Systems is key (e.g. Saracen, Cognos, Hyperion, TM1 or similar).

- Good communication and ability to interact with multiple employee levels/business partners, etc.

- Strong relationship management skills across a diverse organization, especially with senior management.

- Ability to understand, map and change reporting process-flows.

- Strong leadership capabilities with a record of developing individuals and large teams.