Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning - BPO/ITeS

Job Overview :

This position is responsible for providing Reporting, Analytics & Visualization support to the Sales Finance Analyst, Sales & otherGlobal Stakeholders to aid their day-to-day decision making. Also will be responsible for maintaining, validating and auditing business data for consistency and accuracy

Job Responsibilities:

60% of Time Reporting & Analysis :

- Prepare and publish visualization dashboards for Trade movement and margin with various cuts as per customer, category, monthly/quarterly/annual comparisons etc.

- Planning, budgeting, forecasting & updating trade funds in partnership with Sales Finance team

- Variance analysis for Off- invoice and trade funds

- Proactive Management of Aged Promotions to help enable timely Rightsizing /Finalizing and identify trade fallout opportunity through Trade fallout and stale promotion report

- Manage Overspend & Underspend - Audit, Reporting, Root Cause Analysis & Follow ups

- Support process for monthly review of promotions through Trade explanation report

- Challenge status quo in seeking new solutions and recommending opportunities for standardization & enhancement

20% of Time Month end activities:

- Prepare & post trade accrual entries

- Prepare monthly SOX reports for Customer & Initiative routing to Sales FA and Sales Director

- Ensure timely approval & retention of documentation for SOX audit purposes

- Update price list in SAP as per business request

- Monthly/annual updates to tools/dashboard

20% of Time Support to Stakeholders:

- Partner with business stakeholders on various business development & analysis projects

- Perform data/system maintenance to support business processes and changes

- Prepare deck for Leadership Team

- Enable savings

Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed

Example:

- Should be able to support Sales Finance functions. The responsibilities will involve:

- Prepare and approve Trade Reporting and Reconciliations for plan vs actual

- Create Journal Entries for trade adjustments

- Sales Financial Statement preparation, review & analysis

- Aware of flow of financial transactions until close for sales and trade

Other Responsibilities:

- Supporting HMM discovery and ideation

- Support Continuous Improvement - identify process improvements, engage in creating and putting in place improvements (i.e. utilizing YY or Focused Improvement) and communicate to sales finance teams to drive improvements

- Partnership with Sales Finance team along with Trade Support teams in GBS

- Provide inputs for ad-hoc requests and high-level analysis requested by counterparts

- Partner with Finance organization on designated projects

Qualifications:

- Masters in Finance, CA Inter, MBA or equivalent is a must

- Strong technical finance and accounting background.

- experience in month end close is required and strong Fp&a experience.

- Strong Excel and database skills, Access experience preferred . Experience using software tools including Excel and access will be an added advantage

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Strong organizational skills

- Team player and have ability to work independently

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to interact effectively with all levels throughout Company organization

- SAP FICO experience Preferred

- Tableau experience is a Mandate