Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Publisher & Distributor Firm

Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

We have an urgent opening for one of the world's largest Publisher & Distributor of children books for the position of Manager Financial Planning & analysis in Gurgaon.

Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

(Individual Contributor Role)

Duties and Responsibilities :

- To manage and support all phases of the expense financial planning process including consolidations

- Create monthly expense reports/ P&Ls and provide variance analysis for management review

- Work with team to manage and support all phases of the expense financial planning process including consolidations

- Create monthly expense reports/ P&Ls and provide variance analysis for management review

- Review monthly expenses to ensure that expenses are booked correctly and work with the accounting team to make any necessary reclassification

- Develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and strategic plans in conjunction with managers in company's finance and enter the numbers into company's planning system

- Responsible for consolidating financials, headcount reporting, and compensation analysis

- Work on ad-hoc projects/analyzes including systems user-acceptance testing

- Track financial status by monitoring variances from plan

- Determine financial status by comparing and analyzing plans and forecasts with actual results

- Improve financial status by analyzing results and variances; identifying trends; recommending actions

- Provide information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings, analyzes, and recommendations

- Researching and analyzing industries, companies, historical financial statements and projecting financial information

- Assisting in the management and execution of due diligence processes

- Analyze data to ensure proper accounting procedures have been followed

- Assist with the new business process and working with Finance and Business Managers.

- Maintain and develop various financial models and standard templates distributed for use by all of Finance during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.

- Provide timely, relevant and accurate reporting & analysis of the results of the division's performance against historical, budgeted, forecasted and strategic planning results to facilitate decision-making toward the achievement of the budget and strategic plan.

- Thorough understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Knowledge of Statutory accounting principles

- Partner with accounting, treasury, tax as appropriate

Qualifications and Experience :

- 7 years+ of finance and accounting experience with progressive responsibility

- CPA/CA/MBA - Big 4 experience

- Experienced working in an ERP (Hyperion, Oracle, SAP, NetSuite) environment and usage of BI Tools (Cognos, Tableau)

- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and technical pronouncements

- IFRS knowledge

- Must have extremely strong MS Excel skills

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Knowledge of procedural controls and data validation techniques required

- Strong presence with the ability to interact with Senior Leadership.

- Ability to multi-task and work in a challenging fast paced environment.

Prior experience in dealing with Intl. projects.

Ritu Agarwal
Sr. HR Consultant
Spectrum Talent Management