Lead - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFSI

Lead - Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description :

Leading a team this position will partner with CFO to deliver effective strategic analysis, forecasting, planning and budgeting for various divisions of Company (including payment bank). This role will lead engagement across senior operational stakeholders and business unit heads.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to :

- Ownership of the Group consolidated FP&A process

- Responsible for the group budget, strategic planning and forecasting process

- Partnering with business on building business cases, ROI analysis etc. as required

- Proactively identifying key business drivers, understanding the reason and business consequences and recommend corrective actions

- Managing a small yet influential team

- Re-engineering and streamlining processes as needed

- Execute ad-hoc financial/quantitative analysis and various reporting requests in support of business divisions and senior stakeholders

- Implementing financial services industry best practices in financial reporting, profile planning, costs account, profitability analysis, sales management, management and board reporting etc.

Skills & Qualifications :

- Chartered Accountant or equivalent degree or an MBA in Finance

- 10+ years of experience in development, execution and management of financial planning processes, financial analyses, management reporting and business metrics, preferably from banking industry

- Strong data analysis skills, financial/business modeling experience a plus

- Functional knowledge of financial reporting & accounting systems such as SAP, SAP BI, Hyperion etc.

- Effective oral and written communication skills with a strong ability to efficiently communicate financial results to both financially and non-financially oriented persons