Anaplan (FP&A)

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Financial reporting Specialist

• Oversee and manage the entire accounting function, including AP, AR, GL and reconciliations.
• Assist with the annual audit process including prepare and analyze financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.
• Reconcile Intercompany accounts and transactions.
• Knowledge of consolidation of manufacturing company will be significant advantage.
• Review Month close activities for functional cost i.e., accruals, re-classes.
• Interact with the Business/Accounting teams and internal stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Manage multiple stakeholders (senior stakeholders from business and finance) and be responsible for supporting the metrics reporting for the relevant process
• Monitor targets/budgets and course corrections against plan Vs actual, Business & Function wise presentation of monthly Financials and key financial levers will be a part of this role
• Experience with Anaplan will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Interpreting business needs of stakeholders and translating them into functional and operational requirements. Evaluating business processes, anticipating & documenting requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Performing and documenting the requirements analysis session.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Working closely with the Clients, COO, CFO, Business Unit (BU) heads & Managerial Staff.
• Working with the systems team to translate business requirements into outcomes as financial models, simulation scenarios and reports in the system and helping in quality delivery.
• Continuously update skill set, expertise, and technical knowledge by attending the required workshops and courses.
• Self-motivated and pro-active while working and coordinating with team members and providing logical extension to the team whenever required.
• Compile detailed financial reports using calculations, data, and other client-provided information.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate should have a Chartered Accountant degree, along with 3-5 years of relevant experience in financial reporting.
• Proactive/self-motivated working style, strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal). Building and maintaining good relationship with clients.
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Creating the project plan and adhering to the same. Motivating team member to adhering to the project plan. Timely action for any forecasted roadblock.
• Excellent in conducting reviews at regular intervals, creating and maintaining project documents and presentations for management review and client meetings.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Power point.
• Participating in user acceptance testing and undertaking the functionality testing of new system.
• Developing a training curriculum and conducting formal training sessions covering assigned systems module with clients requirements.
• Understanding of Scrum and Agile methodology of project management will be an added advantage.
• Any previous experience of ERP/EPM implementation is an added advantage.
• Any FP&A, B&P, Management Reporting, Finance team experience in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Automotive, BFSI, IT & ITeS, Process Manufacturing, Utilities sector will be an added advantage.

About Polestar

Polestar Solutions is an IT & Consulting organization helping Enterprises with their Analytics and Planning needs. Our Rockstar team has built multiple products and solutions to cater to our clients across sectors such as Retail & E-commerce, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences, Real Estate, Hi-tech, Manufacturing, and Automotive. We are considered top of the class in the domain that we serve by our partners and clients.

We have a geographic presence in the United States (Dallas) & India (Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore & Kolkata) and have 600+ people, a strong world-class team. We are growing at a rapid pace and plan to double our growth each year. This provides immense growth and learning opportunities to those who are choosing to work with Polestar. We are serving customers across 20+ countries. Our expertise and deep passion for what we do has brought us many accolades.

The list includes: -

• Ranked number 1 in 2017 as the fastest organization growing in India by Deloitte. Featured 3 years in a row.
• Financial Times awarded Polestar as High-Growth Companies across Asia-Pacific for the years 2018 and 2020.
• Featured on Forrester's Now Tech: Customer Analytics Service Providers Report Q2, 2021.
• Recognized as Anaplan's India RSI Partner of the Year FY21.
• Featured on the Economic Times India's Growth Champions in FY2022. - Recognised as a Clutch Leader for Top IT Services for the FY 2020, 2021 & 2022, and Top Business Analytics Services in India Categories in FY20.
• Elite Qlik Partner and a member of the Qlik Partner Advisory Council’ & Microsoft Gold Partners for Data & Cloud Platforms Culture at Polestar.