Strategic Planning and Decision Making:

- Vision & Strategy Plan (VSP): Assist in creating a rolling three-year VSP, detailing revenue and profit expectations, and collaborate with marketing, business development, and sales teams.

- Annual Budget and Planning: Collaborate with the Executive team to develop annual budgets and plans for business units.

- Sales Incentive Plans: Collaborate on the preparation of sales incentive plans.

- Strategic Business Partner: Partner with the Leadership team, corporate and business unit leaders on growth and business development initiatives.

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

- Management Reporting: Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, including variance analysis and commentary to support decision-making.

- Financial Analysis and Control: Execute requirements for financial analysis, planning, control, budgeting, and reporting systems.

- Forecasting and Trend Analysis: Generate forecasts, analyze trends, and create financial models for future planning.

Compliance and Process Improvement:

- Financial Compliance: Ensure compliance with IFRS, WK Accounting Manual, and financial policies in collaboration with the finance and accounts team.

- Process Improvements: Drive process improvements for efficiency and transparency in enterprise reporting.

- Management Report Enhancement: Collaborate on enhancing management reports.

Leadership and Collaboration:

- Leadership Team Participation: Actively participate in the GGM India and Finance Leadership team.

- Collaboration with Shared Services: Build relationships with shared services for financial reporting, accounting, compliance, internal controls, and taxation.

- Financial Support: Provide budgeting support, expense analysis, and decision-making support.

- Market Trend Monitoring: Advise leadership on market trends affecting financial performance and recommend actions to mitigate risks or seize growth opportunities.

- Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and executing on initiatives.

Other Duties:

- Various exciting ad hoc reporting requests for GGM India and GGM leadership.

- Integral member of various Business or Finance Process Improvement Projects.

Job Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree and equivalent finance/accounting work experience.

- CA / MBA.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Minimum of 8+ years experience in broad based financial related positions.

- Tagetik, Power BI or equivalent reporting software experience and proficiency are preferred.

- Ability to work closely with senior management from both finance and non-finance background.

- Proven success in being able to evaluate and understand business transactions.

- Experience in a multidivisional corporation (mid to large size corporation).

CORE COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

- Ability to clearly communicate concepts, research findings, issues analysis, project and evaluation results, and data interpretations.

- Consulting mentality extracting insights from very complex and/or limited information to make a recommendation to stakeholders.

- Results-oriented; able to take concepts and ideas through from implementation to action.

- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, be proactive, and think independently, and anticipate needs related to future work.

- Highly responsive and resourceful.

- Positive can do attitude and approach to problem solving.

- Innovative mindset: willingness to try creative and different ways of accomplishing work.

- CA /MBA Qualification.

Travel Requirements:

- 10% to 20%.

Physical Demands:

- Hybrid (office and remote) depending on requirements.

- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process