Senior Role - Financial Planning & Analysis - CA/IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

Responsibilities:

- Lead / partner proactively in the The Organisation FP&A transformation and value creation journey; co-own the global FP&A priorities and identified CoE projects - both foundational and breakthrough projects, and provide project leadership and support for timely project delivery;

- Guide the FP&A team to pro-actively support strategy execution by delivering meaningful, accurate and timely in-depth business insights by forward-looking analysis, and by translating variances in financial and nonfinancial KPIs for senior leadership in Markets and Businesses to make fact-based sound business decisions.

- Own and deliver Month end closing, Monthly Performance Reporting, Latest Views, Forecast and Annual Operating Plan by effectively collaborating with multiple stakeholders across markets/businesses including Business Partners and other FP&A teams

- Own The Organisation GBS priorities of ontime delivery, first time right reporting, standardization and automation, customer satisfaction and employee engagement, and consistently maintain top-quartile GBS performance trends

- Engage with The Organisation heads of finances and business partners across markets/businesses, as a main point of contact to support key market/business goals, review regular performance feedback and implement countermeasures where needed

- Champion lean thinking and tools for operational excellence and productivity.

- Drive automation and standardization through systems and tools to maximize efficiency and actionable insights. Ensure quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in our systems, enabling a single source of truth.

- Manage and supervise FP&A Team leads and analysts and ensure robust FP&A workforce management (knowledge management, competencies, coaching, and succession planning).

- Actively drive workload balancing and cross-team support to counter-act the workload peaks driven by the financial process cycles

- Through coaching, crisp objectives and training/talent development, build and maintain a robust and engaged team

Skills required:

- 14+ years professional experience leading Financial Planning & Analysis for large ($ bn +) global business portfolio in a matrix organization

- Demonstrate commercial mindset and strong business acumen, proven ability to deliver actionable insights in complex and global business set-ups

- Experience of having managed a 15+ team of experienced finance professionals

- Advanced technical skills in Excel, ERP (SAP preferred) and PowerPoint

- Experience with reporting & analytical tools, like Power BI, Qlikview, Qliksense, Business-Intelligence environments, SQL, etc.

- Strong affinity to LEAN processes and tools

- Must be CA or MBA from Premium B School