Financial Analyst 3
This is an exciting opportunity to join the India Shared Services Finance team as we continue to shift to drive the business through data-driven forecasts and providing influential insights. This Senior Financial Analyst position will support Mfg. COGs, Localization Mktg and headcount and expense planning. In this role, you will be responsible for a wide range of projects in support of key business decisions and fiscal deliverable. You will develop and maintain frameworks for quarterly & annual budgets, drive consolidation of in-quarter outlook forecast, analyze and report on financial data,
Responsibilities include :
- Preparing annual/quarterly budgets and weekly/monthly forecasts for Mfg. COGs, ensuring a high level of accuracy, analyzing units / cost of sales trend, E&O inventory analysis, accruals/allocations of direct costs (Mfg.COGs), GL recon, monthly/quarterly reporting.
- Prepare reporting for annual/quarterly budgets and weekly/monthly forecasts, ensuring a high level of headcount and expense predictability for the identified organization, review for completeness and summarize key variances
- Prepare trended analytics for key areas such as headcount attrition, employee costs, and travel spend
- Generate outlook and controller s letter reporting
- Leverage Power BI/Tableau to create and maintain centralized and common reporting and analytical solutions
- Drive continual process improvements, framework enhancements in support of generating meaningful data-driven insights
- Collaborate with finance controllers/consolidators to drive fiscal deliverable, gain comprehension of variance drivers, and challenge assumptions/methodologies employed
- Ad-hoc analysis as required, and self-initiated projects encouraged
Requirements :
- Positive attitude and comfort in an environment subject to change as the business evolves
- Bachelors degree in business, finance or related field; CA/MBA preferred.
- 10+ years of FP&A (or related) experience required, preferably with a US-based company
- Strong analytical and accounting skills; must understand key business drivers, ability to communicate financial implications/business impact and provide recommendations with attention to detail
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to take charge, set objectives, drive to results
- Exceptional follow-through capabilities
- Willingness and ability to quickly master new tools and processes
- Advanced Excel skills are essential, and experience in Tableau and Anaplan are preferred. SAP and PowerPoint are also useful.
