Financial Analyst

Job description

Financial Analyst

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What this job involves:

Commercial finance responsibilities include leading the monthly operating reviews and estimates (strategic plan, yearly operating plan, budget, quarterly estimates), providing a high quality & insightful analysis on the actuals and provide complete commercial finance leadership to the operating teams on an ongoing basis.

In addition to the FP&A and Commercial, this role also shall support on various critical strategic initiatives with various financial modeling, sensitivity analysis and come up with recommendations on business decisions.

Duties & Responsibilities

Budgeting and Analysis

·  Be a business partner with all the operating teams.
·  Lead all the planning cycles (Strategic Planning, Yearly Operating Plan/Budget, Quarterly Forecasts, Weekly dashboards, etc.) with utmost care, high level of accuracy and thorough understanding of the business dynamics
·  Be responsible for preparing quarterly outlook of key metrics that reflects the updated business scenarios, flagging any risks in a timely manner along with recommended actions to close out gaps, if any, against the targets
·  Help prepare short-term/medium-term plans partnering with the business/functional leaders
·  Be responsible for developing reliable estimates of Total Cost of Operation and communicate the estimates to the leadership
·  Tracking the progress against the plans at operating cost level and share the recommended actions to manage the plan to the operations leaders
·  Drive the teams in mitigating the risks against plan, by leading/monitoring the actions by owner
·  Design and develop various financial models for the business segments that are operational in India, including coming up with bold ideas considering cost structure, etc.
·  Ensure that the operating plan numbers are met in every business segment. Monitor and lead regular reviews to ensure key business metrics are met
·  Be the Finance champion to drive productivity savings, Lean Six Sigma savings and Material savings as per plan
·  Drive the zero-based budgeting culture across the organization and establish the appropriate tools & reports to enable the same
·  Be part of the strategic group driving the turnaround strategy including devising claw-back plan in case of any risk in achieving the same
·  Monitor and allocate the funds for investments and working capital in a timely manner.

Accounting and Reporting

·  Work closely with the Accounting group and perform a deep-dive analysis into the monthly results and present the variance analysis
·  Analyze accrual mechanisms and guide the teams in defining robust process for accruals
·  Track the changes in the area of accounting, tax and legal and ensure the proper implementation of the same
·  Develop a strong process for internal checks and reconciliations to ensure the sanity of the reports and dashboard
·  Be owner for the TCO dashboards; ensure timely and accurate reporting to Client.
·  Build and manage reporting templates based on client requirement and improvise the same in periodical manner
·  Ensure that appropriate financial regulations and controls are in place and in use at all times.

Key Performances Measurements

·  Manage TCO budget such a way that it never busted
·  Maintain the Actual Vs Forecast variance well within 3% at all time
·  Check the accuracy of own and others’ work – Check the accuracy of financial planning inputs by reviewing details in report output pages and source data. Review the big picture of the overall plan to ensure report, inputs, and assumptions are reasonably accurate.
·  Create reports appropriate to clients’ needs – Ensure financial planning reports are complete, accurate, contain information relevant to clients, and are according to Team standards.

Sound like the job you’re looking for?  Before you apply, it’s also worth knowing what we are looking for:

Education and experience

·  Graduate + additional educational background in Finance and Accounting
·  10+ years’ experience in Finance Planning and analysis and General accounting
·  Ability to lead a team / Business unit
·  Excellent interpersonal communication and problem-solving skills
·  Advanced skills in MS Excel
·  Excellent communication and presentation skills; be comfortable interacting with executive-level management

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