Assistant Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFSI - CA

Role Overview

This role will focus on managing Financial Planning & Analytics, Business Decision Support, Business Partnering, Budgeting, Forecasting, Profitability Analysis and Commercial Finance. This role will involve working closely with Business and Finance teams. Key take-aways from the role:

- Role touches upon various aspects of business and finance and provides enriching all-round experience and insights.

- This role will provide an opportunity to develop business acumen with regular interactions with business teams and leadership.

- Dynamic business scenarios will pose exciting challenges that need to be addressed proactively in this role.

- With focus on automation and business analytics, this role will provide an opportunity to actively take part in transformational projects.

Key Responsibilities :

- Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecast Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.

- Present the monthly and quarterly financial reports of various units and departments

- Analyze the trends of Key Performance Indicators (KPI), especially relating to financial metrics such as sales, expenditures, and profit margin.

- Monitor KPI, and identify the cause of any unexpected variances

- Implement a business intelligence tool and dashboard reports

- Ad-hoc business performance reporting

- Develop financial models and analyze them to support strategic initiatives

- Support management team and the Heads of Department with data-driven analysis

- Prepare presentations to Board of Directors and Senior Management Team

Skill :

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Finance

- Chartered Accountant (CA)

- In depth knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles

- Experience developing financial reports and metrics

- Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels

- Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment

- Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills

- Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture

- Demonstrated ability to influence others through effective verbal and written communication

- Demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization

- Experience in analytics is preferable

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