Financial Planning & Analysis Role - IT/BPO

Leadership opportunity_Financial Planning & Analysis

Finance is responsible for the accounting, tax, financial plans and policies of the organization, establishing and maintaining fiscal controls, preparing and interpreting financial reports, oversight of financial systems, strategic decisions and support, and safeguarding the organization's assets.

Financial Planning & Analysis is responsible for being objective and strategic financial partners, leading cross-functional effort to drive relevant, flexible and efficient financial planning and analysis that supports our key business decisions.

In this role you will be at the cutting edge of the transformation of FP&A. We're looking for an individual who is passionate about data, analytics, and the potential insights that they can yield. The ideal candidate will be comfortable on creating and managing analytical offerings, including machine learning interventions, across FP&A processes for the prioritized industries. He will be responsible for shaping each offering, working closely with the respective horizontal practice teams and create differentiated go-to market strategy for them.

Responsibilities :

As a FP&A Analytics Leader, you will be responsible for :

- Leading discussions around financial forecasts and long-range planning processes, financial reporting, annual budget processes etc. with our stakeholders

- Finding opportunities to drive revenue growth, margin expansion and a more favorable mix (i.e., driving preferred products and services) for our clients

- Conducting sophisticated analysis, synthesizing, and summarizing implications to business using analytics and domain understanding to identify operational improvement opportunities

- Driving business value by providing financial and analytical counsel to facilitate decision-making around strategic business initiatives

- Clearly articulating a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and potential implications on future results

- Building financial models and scenarios as a key input for business planning decisions in areas such as capital deployment, sourcing, product development, marketing strategies, and acquisitions

- Performing customer and product profitability analysis for making investment and pricing decisions

- Applying professional experience and understanding of technology, tools and methodologies to design and develop solutions

- Building multi-year offering roadmap and responsible for defining release cycles and tracking to them

- Creating and liaising with partner organizations and other organization teams to shape the offerings and increase speed to market as needed

- Commercializing the offerings by partnering with solution architects/ client partners teams

- Leading strategic initiatives globally.

- Working with internal teams to build the solution proposal

- Front ending along with BD/Sales and contributing to deal conversion

- Analyzing market trends/changes/ competitive landscape

- Dealing with CXO level and their second line to sell our value proposition

Qualifications :

Minimum qualifications :

- Bachelor degree or equivalent with 8-10 years of experience in FP&A; advanced degree desirable; MBA, CFA and/or CPA a plus

- Relevant Oracle EPM or Anaplan experience (4 to 6 years or more of hands-on experience with PBCS, knowledge of other EPM products is a plus) as consultant, solution architect or subject matter expert in the EPM domain at a consultancy or customer

- Relevant domain knowledge on Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Management Reporting etc.

- Strong analytical skills and ability to offer unique perspective by reframing and challenging the way customers view their business

- Ability to establish trustful relationships with senior stakeholders based on business process knowledge

- Conceptualize and create end to end view of offerings / solutions by using latest digital technologies / AI / ML.

- Agile in responding to changing demands, Consultative selling skills and Story-telling ability to win new relationships/opportunities

a. Strong communication skills - demonstrated ability to sell/convey value in a compelling manner to prospects ranging from front line managers to CFO

b. Experience leading sales proposals/cycles (RFIs, RFPs, Orals, Due Diligence, Contracting)

- Excellent Communication and stakeholder management

- Ability to operate independently and be self-driven

- Ability to work in diverse teams and with multiple stakeholders

- The incumbent should be a very 'hands-on' person with a positive attitude.

- Awareness of latest digital technologies / trends.

- Understanding of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to embed in solutions / offerings.

- International experience, working with global cultures (including prior experience working with people from India = time zone challenges, cultural alignment)

- Demonstrated understanding for the BPO environment

Preferred qualifications :

- Relevant domain experience

- Experience applying analytical techniques in Financial Planning & Analysis

- Proficiency in FP&A reporting and forecasting tools, and Excel/PowerPoint

- Experience in ZBB implementation is a good to have

- Good knowledge of EPM Tools like SAP BPC, Hyperion, Anaplan etc. and BI tools like Tableau, Qlik Sense, Power BI etc.

- Good understanding of data and analytics technologies and cloud

- Exposure to Finance & Accounting

- Familiarity with Machine Learning techniques

- Experience in SCRUM or other Agile methodologies