IBM - Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

Title: FP&A Manager

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Your Role and Responsibilities:

As FP&A Manager, you are responsible for providing a range of financial support to the growth and effective management of various business units. You are responsible for Indirect cost and rate management including cost allocations, financial analysis and reporting for corporate functions and completing ad hoc financial analysis. You will work effectively under tight deadlines, extreme attention to detail, and consistently accurate, high quality financial analysis.

Responsibilities:

1. Indirect Cost and Rate Management

- Support Indirect Cost management processes to include preparation of annual rates proposal, Incurred Cost Submission (ICS) preparation and incurred cost audits (ICAs)

- Responsible for maintaining monthly NICRA rate and allocation modeling.

- Support DAI's indirect rate development and modeling during quarterly forecast and annual budgeting process.

2. Financial Analysis and Reporting

- Conduct analyses and reporting for corporate functions including, monthly financial analysis, reforecasting, variance analysis, pipeline analysis, and graphical summaries of business unit financial performance.

- Support corporate consolidation analyses and reporting, including annual corporate budgeting process

- Corporate functions planning and forecasting as part of annual corporate-wide planning processes.

- Support the implementation of new financial reporting and roll out of the Hyperion planning system

- Other ad-hoc financial analyses

- Take ownership of payroll reconciliations and annual bonus preparation including pay-out.

- Responsible for managing team of accountants who deal with Functional and Entity Accountants. Give guidance to them in very dynamic environment.

3. Financial Processes Improvement, Ad Hoc Reporting and Analyses, and Special Projects

- Manage or perform periodical or ad hoc financial data analysis, queries, reconciliations and reports as needed from senior management or to satisfy various stakeholder or audit requests;

- Support initiatives targeted at financial processes improvement and the implementation of changes to achieve efficiencies and the company's objectives in the areas of project billing, contract compliance and reporting, indirect cost recovery, financial reporting and analysis

- Additional responsibilities may be assigned as business needs evolve.

Required Technical Expertise:

- Experience of 8+ years of experience in Finance domain and preferably in a BPO environment / Service industry

- Validated skills and experience in handling various aspects of Financial Planning and Analysis

- Prior exposure in having implement ERP or oracle tools in FP&A environment

- Ability to exponent and engage multiple customers across the globe and handle critical issues

- Focus on implementation - essential for delivery as per SLAs/ SOW

Preferred Technical Expertise:

- Finance Graduate / Chartered Accountant or Post Graduation in Finance

- Proven experience in end to end Financial Planning and Analysis / R2R process. In depth process knowledge in central finance reporting, management reporting and reports

- Ability to influence people internal/external customers, Operations and Finance partners

- Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work

- Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management

- Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Culture:

IBM is committed to crafting a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to your race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We are committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.