Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis

The successful candidate will lead a team (10 - 12 staff) involved in end to end work in areas of accounting and management reporting. The role requires extensive engagement with home location finance / Business teams, external stakeholders (auditors etc.,) and well demonstrated communication skills; along with the capability to independently deal with and resolve issues with appropriate escalation. The role also requires strong analytical skills, good knowledge of month end accounting, management reporting and forecasting processes.

Macquarie Recruiter: Nitin Chhabra

Description:

VP- Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Work type: Full time

Location: Gurugram

About the Role:

The successful candidate will lead a team (10 - 12 staff) involved in end to end work in areas of accounting and management reporting. The role requires extensive engagement with home location finance / Business teams, external stakeholders (auditors etc.,) and well demonstrated communication skills; along with the capability to independently deal with and resolve issues with appropriate escalation. The role also requires strong analytical skills, good knowledge of month end accounting, management reporting and forecasting processes.

Key Responsibilities

- Partner with clients to close Annual Operating Plan and resolve queries from the end customers

Review responsibilities of the following work involving accounting functions:

- Month end accounting

- Analysis of Operating expenses

- Recovery/Allocation processing

- Reporting and analysis for Business heads and senior stakeholders

- To provide a high quality financial management reporting service with a focus on identifying trends, risks and opportunities, communicating these to senior finance staff

- Get an in depth understanding of the business, have an impact on the business by providing suggestions to create efficiencies and advice on process improvements.

- Propose and discuss changes to existing reports/ KPIs to improve the benefits generated from reporting activities

- Measure, monitor and improve client service by guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery

- Manages performance of team members from setting goals to assessing performance against goals to providing performance feedback.

- Managing client relationship and first level escalations, proactively seeking client feedback to further improve service level standards

- Continuously innovating with a focus to improve the process - identifying opportunities to enhance efficiencies, add value and contribute commercially

- Ensuring implementation of technology solutions in the team

- Make commercial contribution through identification of cost optimization and other opportunities

- Work collaboratively with team performing similar tasks across other service areas to ensure consistency in approach and quality of service delivery to service area clients.

About You

You are an experienced person in financial services and have exposure to financial accounting and statutory reporting in a service industry environment. You have strong customer service ethics, proactively understand client requirements & maintain good relationship with the clients and have the ability to work in a virtual global teams and manage cross-border relationships effectively. You have the ability to act as a role model to influence the behaviour of the wider high performing team. Provide direction to people, projects and/or processes and creates opportunities for others to develop and extend their skills and experience.

To be successful in the role, you will have:

Professional Accounting/ Finance qualification

- 10-13 years of relevant post qualification experience with strong academic background

- A strong background of Financial Planning and Analysis is essential.

Very strong Analytical skills

- Good understanding of technology enablement solutions like RPA, Alteryx, Power BI, TM1 etc. and ability to implement new technologies for automation and operational excellence

- Willingness to travel overseas

- Willing to work in shifts

- Exposure to IFRS will be preferred