Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Law Firm - CA

Skills and Experience:

- Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience of working in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)/Controllership team in a large setup

- Must be Green belt/black belt certified.

- Strong working knowledge of HFM and Smart view. Knowledge of Hyperion Planning will be an added advantage

- Qualification: CA Qualified

- Experience of working with very senior stakeholders

- Experience of leading Finance projects in large organizations

- Strong attention to detail, data integrity and accuracy

- Strong analytical, organizational and data gathering/documentation skills

- Strong proficiency in MS Excel & MS PowerPoint

- Ability to self-manage, work effectively under pressure and meet strict deadlines along with the ability to work in bigger teams

- Excellent communication skills

Manager - FP&A will be part of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team which is responsible for providing periodic financial reports to functional management on an accurate and timely basis. e.g.

- Periodic Financials Reporting (Including Income statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Profit Contribution Summary, Revenue pacing to meet Forecast or Plan numbers)

- Productivity metrics and measurements, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Metrics analysis (eg Profit per Partner, Utilization, Profit per Unit, Income at Billable Value, etc.)

- Periodic Expense reporting, Utilization reporting, Head Count

- Publishing of Management Packs

- Periodic Variance Analysis & commentary

Planning & Forecasting: Support the fiscal year planning process by providing historical data and trend information for review. Input plan into firm's planning system and distribute final plan to functional management. Support the preparation of periodic forecasts for management review.

Business Adviser: Provides accurate and timely information to stakeholders and continuously seeks to enhance the services provided. Support internal controls and procedures to manage costs and maximize profitability and to act as a Business Adviser.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will involve playing a dual role of an Analyst and also leading Continuous Improvement initiatives for the FP&A department.

Financial Analyst responsibilities

- In this role, the individual will need to work very closely with very senior stakeholder/s and perform activities associated with the Strategic/Operational Plan, Budgeting, Forecasting and MIS Reporting activities. This will also involve a high degree of ongoing analytical support and ad hoc reporting

- Analyze consolidated results and partners closely with Business Operations and Business Finance to understand variances to budget and historical trends

- Provide financial support to Business/Functions and assist them in decision making

- Preparation of various Reports to support the Management needs and ensuring timely adherence to deadlines

- Track and provide insight on business productivity (efficiency saves) and projects are driven by business

- Preparation of monthly Management packs, review decks and getting into discussions with Finance Management, as necessary

- Working with Country Regional Managers to create and review monthly and quarterly outlook and annual financial plans, including reporting and analysis to explain changes against given baselines

- Assist in key month end activities including interaction with the Controllers to provide oversight of completeness and accuracy of underlying management information

- Comply with all departmental/financial operations policies and practices

- Load and validate data to financial models; support the data life cycle in the system

- Perform monthly validations and make adjustments to models as needed; investigate variances and follow up as appropriate

- Ad-hoc reporting for end users when required

Continuous Improvement Role and responsibilities

Purpose of the role:

Will be responsible for the delivery of Continuous Improvement initiatives in the FP&A department. It will play an important role in helping to foster a culture of sustainable change through the creation and embedding of CI methodology in line with the CCBS business strategy, reporting, tracking and ensure closure of the CI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

- To identify and deliver process improvement activity through employing CI methodologies

- Lead improvement projects from start to end and ensure on-time delivery

- Help individuals and teams to complete the improvement projects, bring the team at defined CI maturity level, sustain and further Improve.

- Assist with identifying integration issues with other projects/processes and coordinate the improvements with the appropriate project leader to accomplish project goals.

- Learn and use CI tools and principles, lead and/or facilitate continuous improvement events/Workshop

- To work with key business stakeholders, other CI coaches & champions, to build a continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing programme of change

- Provide progress updates to all level of stakeholders & report benefits to the business at defined intervals.

- To complete post-implementation reviews to ensure successful delivery of CI has been achieved and to ensure that improvements can be made for future projects

- Ensure that processes are continually optimized to deliver efficiency savings