Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis/Cost Management - BFS

This is one of the critical role within Financial Planning and Analysis team, which plays a very important role in supporting the organization and the leader of the team in several cost initiatives of the company. Specifically, this role is responsible for ownership and end to end delivery of resource deployment process of the organisation.

Field enablement : 

- Help business conceptualize and enable growth/ improvement oriented initiatives by business - Agency-branch profitability and redesigning the MIS process

- Axis-Zone level analysis

- CAT - New initiatives support Opex

- Drive cost management agenda of the organization - Providing controllership over Company level

Opex : 

- Departmental expenses, reconciliation between top down and bottoms up, engagement with various functional heads and closure

- Tracking monthly opex

- Providing visibility to rolling forecasts to enable timely business action - Company level cost initiatives HR, Facilities, Agency etc

- Quality led cost initiatives and weekly governance

Financial Decision making : 

- Develop and maintain framework of cost management and resource allocation within accepted risk parameters

- Liasoning with demand management

- Negotiate with various functions on efficacy of CBA

- CBA approval process as per revised grid - Providing visibility to organization on accountability of delivering committed benefits of investments.

- Trainings and increasing the awareness of the process

- Sample analysis of self-approved CBAs on quarterly basis

CAPEX : 

- Help business priorities capex spends and funding of the same.

- Give-gets of various CAPEX and its linkage with company strategy and sales plan/cost reduction plans

- Monthly tracking of CAPEX categorized under various projects and dash boarding in the way it is useful to major stakeholders

- Periodic reconciliation between IT PO based capex and - put to use- CAPEX

- Deep dive of leasehold capex Key Projects

- Understanding of the business case

- Give-gets of various initiatives

- Current issues (timing/permanent)

- Benefit tracking and validation

- Understanding of CPT methodology and validation of the same

Corporate overhead allocation Process

- Understanding and improvements

- Alignment with Activity Based Costing