Head - Financial Planning & Analysis - Online Travel Startup

- Cost control and reduction by way of financial forecasting - Continuous forecasting & review & monitoring of business plan to ensure the route to profitability.

- Analyze business performance - monitoring and analysis of regional, sub regional & line of businesswise profitability on a monthly basis and make recommendations for areas of potential net cost savings along with financial cost benefit analysis along with summary of key non-financial factors

- Analyze margins (region and unit wise) - product, channel, customer margins at all levels (before and after allocations of overheads). Variance monitoring with regard to standard value chains and reconciliation with overall profitability to identify gaps and make recommendations for effective decision making.

- Analyze performance, effectiveness & efficiency of processes, business model & organization structure and identify potential ways to make structure more efficient (business unit consolidations, shared services model, transactional cost contract versus time & material, variable vs. fixed costs strategy etc.)

- Responsibility for designing, developing and delivering FP&A strategies supporting the overall plans.

- Strong knowledge of Finance

- 7-15 years of post qualification experience with experience of Financial Planning & Analysis