Engagement Manager/AVP - Corporate FP&A - BPO

Engagement Manager / AVP Corp FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) for an MNC BPO in Pune.

Job Description :

This hands-on role presents an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront as we create the required business finance functionality within. This is a supporting role to provide relevant, accurate and timely financial information & analysis to facilitate discussions with the business and meet their requirements. This will then be used to provide the appropriate finance support to ensure all key decision making is made with the relevant financial insights.

The following are the key areas of delivery/involvement for the role:

- Financial reporting – Prepare reports, interpret financial MI and write commentaries in a clear manner to allow COE Heads to clearly understand their financial performance and ensure there is only “one version of the truth” for all financial reporting. Work with finance teams to ensure we fully understand the components of the financial MI for the COE and Regions. Work closely with Finance to develop the financial MI functionality and processes for COE.

- Financial analysis – Carry out detailed financial analysis for the business alongside associated business volume drivers to ensure we can explain key variances or changes in trend.

- Business drivers – Create business driver/volume MI to accompany the financials.

- Planning

i) Provide support to COE Heads to ensure they fully understand the planning processes within.

ii) Provide year on year analysis and commentaries to ensure annual financial plans and estimates are fully understood and key variances documented.

- Billing and recharge/recoveries process – Gain a detailed understanding of the billing processes and assist in relevant projects to help align with the financials. Assist with any changes required from a finance perspective.

- Business initiatives – Provide support to COE Heads to help validate their financial recommendations and provide relevant financial MI.

- Sustainable saves reporting – Work with COE Heads to assist in ensuring clear and accurate reporting of saves by COE and initiative, including value contribution (e.g. revenue enhancements by SD initiatives) so they can be included in respective regional SD financial plans.

- Work across a matrix management structure within the wider finance function to obtain appropriate MI & explanations to support the COE.

- Deliver to ad-hoc finance support and analysis requests by the Head of Finance for COE.

Skills/Experience Required :

- Professional qualification (CFA/ACCA/CIMA/CA or MBA) with a minimum of 10+ years post qualified experience in business support areas such as analysis, business modelling, planning and MI. Should have led a team.

- Extensive financial modelling skills.

- Strong analytical review skills and experience of business case development.

- Ability to get behind the numbers and provide insightful and concise reasoning to trends and variances.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to concisely present highly complex financial modelling and processes to business colleagues.

- Experience of translating business initiatives into finance recommendations and then explain how to include in the various planning/reporting processes across the Group.

- Involvement in Finance change projects and a good change agent.

- Knowledge of the rolling operating plan process and MTO’s.

- Knowledge of the financial planning systems/structures (gained through roles in areas such as planning, finance, analytics etc).

- Understanding of the dynamics of Banking products and operational processes.

- Excellent spreadsheet (Excel), Hyperion and modelling skills.

- Working knowledge of Activity Based Costing methodologies.

Interested candidates can mail their profiles or call me @ 040-40101210.