Manager - Finance - Enterprise Planning & Analytics

Hiring for Top MNC Operating over 180+ Locations across the globe.

Brief Profile

We are looking for a candidate who can bring finance knowledge, process expertise, world class capabilities to our clients to deliver business value in EPM suite

- Work requires travel to client site for project work across geographies

Key responsibilities of the role:

- Lead project delivery, client conversation and manage stakeholders on the project both internal and external

- Lead the team of experienced resources and direct/guide teams on project executions as per planned timelines

- Lead the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring high quality within constraints of time and budget

- Effectively co-ordinate with client organizations and work towards maintaining & enhancing effective client relationships

- Lead the EPM application design aspects and the assessment of project requirements and deliverables to identify the best solution for clients

- Identify opportunities using/building own network within and outside firm to drive business development activities

- Prepare response to RFP and drive client conversation/presentations to dive business opportunities

- Prepare business case, Solution options, project plans, estimates, staffing requirements and execution approach for the EPM opportunities and use them as part of proposal to the client appropriately

- Work Independently on business development and project delivery from onshore/offshore as needed

Required Qualifications :

- Must be a Post-Graduate (M.B.A from premier B School), C.A. or C.P.A with at least 8-10 years of experience in Finance and Accounts domain

Desired Experience :

- Must have have 8+ years of relevant work experience, preferably 7+ years in consulting and business development

- Functional experience in Digital Finance, Planning, and budgeting processes, KPI Identification and Management and financial reporting

- Experience in AI/ML or data science use cases in FP&A processes

- Experience in Data & Master data governance

- Functional experience in Finance transformation projects across all or any of the phases i.e. Plan, Design, Build, Test and Deploy, preferably involving implementation of Enabling technology, tools, and Software applications

- Must have at least 3 full lifecycles implementation experience in implementing either of these EPM/technology (Oracle EPM Suite (E-PBCS, FCCS), Anaplan, SAP SAC/ BPC/GR, OneStream etc.)

- Experience in Management and Financial reporting, performance management, disclosure management, XBRL reporting, last mile reporting (Oracle Analytic Cloud (OAC), Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, Workiva, etc.)

- Should have experience of handling teams of 8-10 resources independently.

Key Competencies and Skills :

- EPM Application Architect. This role is to support Accenture in delivering EPM programs (planning and forecasting, management reporting, analytics).

- This resource would be a program lead with responsibilities to drive clients through the design of application-based solutions, leveraging process knowledge of planning/forecasting and technology/systems integration experience - combining technology and data models.

- Excellent leadership and management skills

- Candidate should be self-motivated with strong analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills

- Candidate should be responsible for sales and productivity of the team

- Ability to lead and work with geographically dispersed teams/Cross cultural competence

- Ability to drive solutions independently

- Attention to Detail

- Integrated Business Perspective with special emphasis on technology enablement

- Affinity with large organizations and large projects