Director - Financial Planning & Analysis - IT

- The Director, Financial Planning and Analysis will report to the Head of FP&A and will be responsible for leading the FP&A Department for Innova business.

- Works with Senior Management and business units to determine strategic objectives and identify opportunities to meet these goals.

- Partners with business leaders to provide input and guidance on business issues and to provide strategic financial inputs.

- Delivers presentations to executive and senior management teams about financial planning and analysis.

- Approves, in consultation with the business leader(s), the annual operating plan.

- Supports business unit Heads and senior-level directors/managers.

- Engages in a business-partnering role at the corporate level to deliver positive business results with special focus on cost control.

- Forecasts impact of achievement of incentives and other programs.

- Plans and overseas consolidated budgets and long-range plans.

- Leads the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts.

- Analyzes impact of external and internal factors on the business and progress towards f financial goals.

Job Responsibility:

- Direct and Manage FP&A department/teams and provide meaningful, concise, and clear analysis, including variance analysis to senior management on financial issues and performance (actual versus budget/forecast/prior quarter/prior year etc)

- Prepare financial evaluations in all areas of the business, manage relationships with sales team, provide answer to queries of sales VPs.

- Update and distribute primary sales KPI dashboard shared weekly with 200+ sales managers and VPs across multiple Business Units and 30 Branches.

- Ensure data quality across all datasets of the new CRM.

- Manage Data-Migration to Oracle Hyperion System or other alternative from SAP-BPC for future financial budgeting, commissions, reporting processes.

- Identify strategic growth accounts for each financial year by measuring client growth. potential and analyzing sales KPIs and financial reporting.

- Publish EBITDA tracker reports for the CFO and CEO, with annualized forecasts for Revenue, GP, SG&A and EBITDA. Publish detailed weekly financial reports to branches. through SAP Business Objects covering various financial KPIs; and Partner with the Regional VPs to create quarterly business review decks and coordinate.

- QBR presentation meetings between the business leads and the CFO.

- Manage FP&A function, Delivery of Process SLAs and leading a team, manage team attrition, continuous improvement roadmap, training of team, knowledge transfer docs, stabilization of team as and when required.

Education and experience Required:

- CA/CPA/MBA in Finance or equivalent

- 13+ years of experience preferred in Financial Planning and Analysis including leadership capacity.

- Demonstrate leadership and interpersonal skills, including the ability to manage and implement multiple complex projects, people management, and communications to both technical and non- technical audiences.

- Work closely with the IT team on systems improvements and automations in different areas of FP&A

- Prior direct management experience

- Flexibility, problem solving, and organizational skills.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Ability to partner and build strong working relationships with senior Finance leadership.

- Strong team approach when working with colleagues.

- Coaching, counselling, and people management skills