Simplilearn - Director - Financial Planning & Analysis

Position: Director - FP&A

About Simplilearn:

Founded in 2010 and based in Plano, Texas, and Bangalore, India, Simplilearn, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a global leader in digital upskilling, enabling learners across the globe with access to world-class training to individuals and businesses worldwide. Simplilearn offers 1,500+ live classes each month across 150+ countries, impacting over 8 million learners globally.

The programs are designed and delivered with world-renowned universities, top corporations, and leading industry bodies via live online classes featuring top industry practitioners, sought-after trainers, and global leaders. From college students and early career professionals to managers, executives, small businesses, and big corporations, Simplilearn's role-based, skill-focused, industry-recognized, and globally relevant training programs are ideal upskilling solutions for diverse career or business goals.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our finance team as the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). As the Head of FP&A, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial strategy, providing critical insights, and ensuring sound financial management.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Leadership: Provide strategic financial leadership and partner with the CFO/ CXO in shaping the financial direction of the company.

Financial Reporting: Oversee the preparation of internal and external financial reports, Vertical , Geography and business profitability

Arrive at business matrices to track the profitability of business and work closely with business

Cost optimization: Work with business leaders to review key cost items and arrive at strategy and metrics to improve profitability.

Work closely with Controllership team to review the cost data and work collaboratively to arrive at the business analytics

Business partnering : Partner with business regarding the growth plans and cost optimization initiatives

Scenario analysis and business plan Covering the short term and long term plans including Board of Directors materials, monthly financial analysis reports, and other ad hoc analyses as needed.

Budgeting and Forecasting: Lead the month-end and quarter-end P&L distribution and forecast consolidation for various departments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

Financial Insights: Collaborate with business operations and key stakeholders to generate requested reporting outputs, extracting meaningful insights from financial data.

Decision Support: Execute value-added analysis and provide decision support for special projects and initiatives, contributing to data-driven decision-making.

Process Improvement: Drive continuous process improvement in financial planning and analysis, optimizing efficiency and accuracy.

Presentation: Assist in developing finance and business presentations and supporting materials to communicate financial information effectively.

Required Skills:

- MBA/CA with 10+ years of progressive experience in Business finance roles preferably in the Edutech, IT/ITES industry.

- Demonstrated success in Business partnering, financial modeling and analysis.

- Experience with financial planning and analysis functions, including annual budgeting, capital budgeting, long-term strategic planning, and resource allocation processes.

- Effective support to CXOs in decision making process

- Strong understanding of accounting and finance principles.

- Makes confident, fact-based decisions.

- Approaches problems from different perspectives to suggest and implement solutions.

- Forecasts issues in advance to prevent potential impacts both internally and externally.

- Ability to solve complex problems.

- Adept at using logic and reasoning to work through problems and analyze information.

- Team player who can work collaboratively with key stakeholders and other finance verticals.