Manager/Senior Manager – Business Finance and Commercial Strategy
Gurgaon, India
Payment – Payments India - Finance /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Business Finance and Commercial Strategy team is responsible for building an analytical and data driven business finance function and support on the following tasks:
Periodic Financials Reporting (Including Income statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Profit Contribution Summary, Revenue pacing to meet Forecast or Plan numbers)
Build framework for annual operating plan, and conduct periodic budget vs actual variance analysis along with comment.
Productivity metrics and measurements, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Metrics analysis.
Publishing of Management Packs.
Manage Business Finance for multiple business units including PG, QR, POS etc.
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.
Responsibilities:
- In this role, the individual will need to work very closely with senior stakeholder/s and perform activities associated with the MIS Reporting and Budgeting, Forecasting activities.
- This will also involve high degree of on-going analytical support and ad hoc reporting. It will largely be an individual contributor role.
- Analyze consolidated results and partners closely with Business head and Vertical Heads to understand variances to budget and historical trends.
- Take ownership of driving the P&L towards Annual Operating Plan.
- 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 driven by business.
- Preparation of monthly Management packs, review decks and getting into discussions with Finance Management, as necessary.
- Working 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.
- Prepare financial models; support the data life cycle in the system.
- Ad-hoc reporting for end users when required
Requirements:
- Minimum 4-8 years of experience of working in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) / Business Finance / Financial consulting / any other relevant financial domain.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders.
- Excellent Business Acumen.
- Qualification: MBA / Qualified CA.
- Top notch analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Consulting and communicative capabilities.
- 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 ability to work in bigger teams.
- Excellent communication skills
