Financial Planning & Analysis Role - Investment Bank

Principal Responsibilities

- Monthly close, process fixed asset adjustments (additions/write-offs), balance sheet analysis, financial reporting and analysis for Engineering spend, capital projects and depreciation. Tasks include budgeting, balance sheet reconciliation and management, project management, managing accruals and local management oversight when required. Provide support for product controllers in the areas of monthly close, accrual calculations and uploads, estimates, normalization and invoice management.

- Own the accounting control for expense/ balance sheet accounts pertaining to global business lines and manage related activities

- Analyze financial and operational data from various business lines around the globe. Present findings clearly to enable effective decision-making

- Perform regular reviews of product prices, staff allocations and headcount reporting

- Work in close coordination with global finance team and leadership on annual budget and quarterly reforecast related assignments. Consolidate inputs and translate business assumptions to quantify financial impact

- Conduct quarterly substantiation of asset and liability accounts; Report Expense commitments to controller

- Maintain/provide monthly drawdown of selected prepaid assets, capitalization, retirement of asset from deferred/capital work-in-progress accounts. Further, monitor these accounts and communicate with account owners periodically

- Perform asset classification checkouts and reclassification/transfer as necessary - Perform Project Costing; Reconciliation

- Analyze and explain expense trends and key drivers for changes to internal finance teams

- Drive improvement and automation of current processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy and control.

Experience / Skills : 

- Finance Professional with 2+ years- experience - Chartered Accountant/ MBA Finance from a reputed B School

- Experience in FP&A, Analytics, Business Partnering

- Working in a Multinational environment with FMCG, Consumer Durables, Telecom or similar Industry.

- Strong analytical skills and ability to summarize and present information at a management level

- Clear and effective communications skills both verbally and in writing. Experience of working in a global setup will be of advantage

- MS Office skills - Advanced MS Excel knowledge, basic proficiency on MS PowerPoint.

- Proficient in the use of Hyperion/Essbase, Smart view

- Strong networking skills to establish contacts and partnerships with other teams

- Impeccable attention to detail

- Ability to organize own time and work independently, without close supervision

- Courage to challenge current practice and suggest new ways of working, value-added ideas/ approaches

- Ability to work in a team based environment and to interface with employees at all levels

- Flexibility to Adapt easily to a dynamic and changing organization and able to work well under pressure