Assistant Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis

Assistant Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis

Role & Responsibilities:

- Annual Business Plan: Collaborate with business and management teams to set ambitious targets and performance metrics that align with our growth strategy.

- Investor Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate reporting to all external investors and other stakeholders.

- Meet ad-hoc investor reporting requirements wherever required.

- Serve as a liaison for the investor relations team, including executive presentation, Q&A support and analysis.

- Analytics: Prepare regular, in-depth management reports, dashboards, and presentations that provide clear insights into financial performance, variance analysis and key trends

- Business Performance Enhancement: Partner with business units to understand the drivers of variance and develop action plans to address performance gaps.

- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.

- Pro-active Analysis: Manage the forecasting process and analyze variances between actual results and budget/forecast projections.

- Escalation of issues to management.

- Recommend strategies to increase financial performance

- Corporate Finance & Finance Team Collaboration: Work closely with the Corporate Finance and Finance teams on funds management, financials analysis etc.

Key Job Deliverables:

- Timely submission of accurate business MIS highlighting deviations and recommendatory actions

- Achieving margin targets of the business

- Timely and accurate completion of budgeting process

- Quarterly Budget vs Actuals with detailed variance analysis

- Quarterly forecasts

- Project reviews

Key Skills and Qualifications:

- Education: CA / MBA Finance from a Tier I Institute

- Experience: 10-15 years of post qualification experience in Business Finance/FPA functions

- Candidates with Real Estate background / Financial DD background with Big 4 firms would be preferred

- Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting techniques and variance analysis

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights

- Proven leadership skills to guide and mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

- Strong ability to manage internal / external stakeholders (senior management executives