Associate Director - Financial Planning & Analysis

Roles and Responsibilities;

- 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

These responsibilities are not limitative and can be modified in order to reach the company's goals and objectives as well as personal performance.

Required Skills/Abilities:

- 10-12 years of experience in General Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis and Financial management

- Advanced degree in Accounting

- A Demonstrated ability to efficiently gather and consolidate diverse Financial data to make relevant analysis and interpretations

- A capability to evaluate return on investments, outline potential risks & opportunities to ease decision making

- Ability to work in a dense finance tool ecosystem with a strong competency to build new reporting / workflows, or enhance existing ones when required

- Proficient in the use of MS Office and financial management software and tools Expert level knowledge in MS Excel.

- Strong attention to detail, organizational and time management skills; ability to handle multiple priorities within deadlines is required

- Excellent verbal, written communication, and listening skills

- Strong presentation and analytical skills

- Strong collaborations skills