Associate Director - Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities: Your core responsibilities will include analyzing financial data, monitoring expenditure, forecasting revenue, and ensuring accuracy of financial information.

Studio process

- Drive the entire budgeting and reporting process for the Studio, working with the team through initiating the process to uploading it in the tools for yearly and quarterly budgets

- Review cost center allocation.

- Verify purchasing requests and compare them to budgets

- Prepare budget presentations for management.

- Provide analysis and recommendations to optimize costs and improve financial performance.

- Co-ordinate with all stake holders for preparation of budget

- Provide necessary templates for budgeting.

- Compile and analyze the data and prepare justification for budget.

- Upload the budget in budgeting tools after validation.

- Work on various simulations for different scenarios might be need by management for decision making.

- Monitoring internal controls

- Develop and document business processes.

- Support the HQ tool implementations for budgeting and/ reporting.

- Drive more automation in the current process & tools.

Project process

- Co-ordinate with Producers/PMO for project forecast -Staffing and activity cost for yearly and quarterly budgets and for new project budgets

- Prepare initial project budgets and monthly forecast update

- Consolidate and analyze financial data (staffing, activity costs, actuals, forecast)

- Monitor and challenge projects' budgets and ensure the projects' spending are within the budget

- Uploading project forecast in tools form time to time as required

- Conduct business studies on historical performance, conduct benchmarking, develop financial models, identify trends, conduct ad hoc studies

- Anticipate future challenges & critical risks & opportunities and work on addressing them with high performing long-term solutions

- Resolve & reply various queries pertaining to project costs from lead of projects.

- Raise flags when need be to address quickly any potential domain issue

- Analyze current tools and practices, assess about efficiency and drive change if need be