Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to):

- Any and all analysis and recommendations related to the P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and other financial statements, investment decisions, budgets and forecasts and other ad-hoc analysis based on operational KPIs and accounting/ financial data for the company

- Prepare budgets, plans and regular forecasts for the company in detail across all divisions

- Analyze and present MIS reports with narrative/ MDNA of all actual results vs. budgets, prior periods, forecasts etc. e.g. Flash, monthly reporting, Business wise reporting, acquisitions reporting

- Assess stakeholder (PE, CEO, CFO, Business leaders, sales and delivery leaders) needs for MIS and analytics and design refreshed reporting deliverables. Reassess current process for MIS process to streamline and improve speed and level of insight.

- Support preparation of lender reporting- especially for acquisitions performance

- Integrate several acquisitions of US/ India based firms into the data/ FP&A infrastructure

- Collaborate with sales teams, business leaders to enable growth e.g. pipeline, churn, retention analysis

- Collaborate with delivery leaders to save costs and increase productivity e.g. automation, offshoring

- Collate and prepare not just capex plans but other growth and other investments ROI and business cases that improve financial position of the company

- Track and point out issues ahead of time and help mitigate emerging risks

- Hire develop and retain an A Team of FP&A analysts that are high energy, detail oriented and great
communicators

- Transform the data/ reporting tech stack for the firm starting with current data repositories, XL version control and leading upto full BI tool implementation and dashboarding. Provide requirements for and work with the ERP project team to ensure data needs for all stakeholders are met.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

- CEO, CFO and PE partners satisfaction on provision of timely, quality insightful analysis as above

- People, process, technology transformation to enable the above

- Flexibility to go above and beyond and take ownership of key metrics/ analysis/ reports

CORE EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES:

- CA or MBA (+ Graduate in quantitative field) from high-ranking institution

- 10+ years of experience in FP&A in a firm of high growth or turnaround situation

- Global Business Service industry experience (ideally IT/ ITES/ BPO/ KPO/ consulting/ captive) atleast 6 years

- Basic understanding of accounting standards (US GAAP) and financial metrics

- Executive presence - strong written and verbal communication skills including preparation of compelling presentations for senior international stakeholders

- High energy, go-getting, entrepreneurial mindset and a keen business sense

- Resilient, flexible and savvy business relationship builder

- Very high numerical, logical and reasoning intelligence and problem-solving skills

- Highly detail oriented - ability to pick of anomalies, trends, patterns issues from data/ due diligence

- Advanced experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

- Basic understanding and experience with BI systems like Tableau, Power BI, COGNOS etc. (Nice to have) knowledge and experience working with ERP systems like Workday. Netsuite, MSD365, Oracle Normal working hours would align with at least 5 hours overlap with US East coast (typical team time is 2p-11p) and there are extended hours/ weekends on occasion.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES:

- Get it done, action-orientated, lead from the front attitude, with a sense of urgency and willingness
to roll-up sleeves and openness to change and working in a fast paced culture

- Strong work ethic- ownership, initiative, quality consciousness, desire to learn and grow; comfort with high performance culture

- Flexibility and desire to go above and beyond

- Unquestioned integrity, credibility, and judgment and ability to foster a transparent, open culture.

- Collaborator with an ability to work well both independently, and in a team environment