Contetra - Executive - Financial Planning & Analysis

As a Finance executive, you will collaborate with client to understand their business, process, systems and perform financial diagnosis to identify root-cause of their challenges. Providing practical solutions based on data-driven insights and handholding business owners and their teams to implement the solutions to help the business survive, stabilise and scale-up. Role will also include transforming company strategy, into a long-range plan with annual operating and capital budgets. With the use of financial modelling, forecasting operating and profitability performance and setting up annual targets for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). By providing an annual budget, it provides management a clear picture of future performance while giving employees a direction to work towards.

Responsibilities:

1. Meet with assigned clients and perform an initial financial assessment of a problematic situation and business performance (includes financial analysis, key process and systems understanding)

2. Collect information about the client's business through a variety of methods (shadowing, interviews, surveys, reading reports etc.)

3. Analyse and interpret data to unearth weaknesses and problems and comprehend the causes.

4. Formulate recommendations and solutions with based on data analysed.

5. Preparation of functional level Profit and Loss budgeting activity for the entity (Manufacturing and Service) and setting up process for data flow (MIS) to track actuals against the budget.

6. Preparation of cash projections and monthly review and revision.

7. Setting up profit and Cost centres in entity's ERP system and monitor monthly performance and preparation of performance MIS.

8. Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making.

9. Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the company's future operations.

10. Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.

11. Considering opportunities for the company to expand or grow. Mapping outgrowth plans, including capital expenditures and investments. Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts.

12. Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of each department of the company, in light of what percentage of the company's financial resources each department consume.

13. Assessing and identifying business and growth opportunities by understanding the business models suggesting improvements.

14. Assessing and Identifying business risks and means to mitigate them.

Qualification and skills:

1. CA / CFA / MBA with 1-2 years of relevant experience in FP&A role at an intern/employee level.

2. Advanced computer skills on MS Office

3. Experience as business consultant or equivalent

4. Advanced accounting software skill especially Tally ERP9

5. Ability to draw insights from large amounts of data.

6. High attention to detail and accuracy

7. Aptitude in creative problem-solving

8. Fluency in communication - English (Spoken and Written) and Hindi (Spoken).