Senior Manager - Financial Planning - BFS

Looking for 5+ years of relevant finance experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Service, Delhi/NCR location

- Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.

- Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Solid people and project management skills.

- Leadership skills and ability to influence others in decision making.

- Relationship and stakeholder management skills are important.

- Initiative and proactive thinking

- Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset coupled with a thorough understanding of Finance.

- Have worked in Financial Planning & Analysis, Variance Analysis, Stakeholder management, MI Reporting.

- Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.

- Significant experience of working with senior management team and of interfacing with and influencing senior stakeholders.

- Strong ability to understand financial statements and its drivers and synthesize them into meaningful analyses as required.

- Develop analysis & interpretations as required to facilitate management decision making.

- Partner with senior leaders to drive and deliver on performance management reporting and analytics though high-quality MI and stakeholder engagement

- Driving process improvement, efficiency and resolving core business issues in the team.

- Finance Business Partner for the business/ functions with focus on improving and manage business financials.

- Support MOU/planning activities for operating expenses, capital expenditure, leases, fixed assets and depreciation

- Participate in monthly closing and reporting activities for operating expenses / fixed assets including tracking actuals versus plans, expense drivers & operating metrics; prepare Board decks for OPEX and Earnings

- Perform analysis of Cost KPIs at monthly/Qtrly/YTD basis, monitor key metrics, review various operating metrics, cost to income ratios, identify reasons for cost variances versus plans, past periods etc

- Publish regular MIS/dashboards for management covering Cost Classification, Functional Level cost, Cost to Income at Functional level, new accounts, headcount, etc.

- Participate in projects on system automations for operational efficiency

- Prepare for the monthly performance reviews, quarterly board decks and quarterly investor presentations related to cost and Opex areas

- Prepare assigned regulatory reports

- Drive cost analytics across functional areas and present to CFO