Finance Manager

Job Description

Position Overview: This position specializes in financial and operational KPIs through engineering in-depth analysis and reporting and providing meaningful insights to key business leaders. The individual will partner with US finance teams, operations and high level management to steer the business and monitor progress. The individual will not only solve the problem,” but also summarize and articulate the results to executives and senior leadership team. Painting the picture of what is happening by articulating insights from the analysis is critical to the value that our group provides. Understanding the industry and our business strategy is essential in this role as our work directly influences the execution and success of those strategies. The right candidate will need strong critical thinking skills to successfully operate in an entrepreneurial environment. As our team’s success continues to grow, new demands are frequently placed on us, requiring adaptability. Strong logical reasoning skills are necessary for navigating models and advanced Excel functions and techniques. This position would include some or all of the following responsibilities: Prepare and manage data analytics on operational metrics Building and maintaining analytical models on key operating measures. Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance Utilizing existing tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost center results Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reductions Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability Shift : Shift Timings- 3 pm to 12 pm IST but during the initial training period there would be overlap with US counterparts and the candidate needs to be flexible with 5:30 pm to 2:30 am shift (Day Light Savings are needed) Sensitive data access: Yes Education & Qualifications (Required and Preferred): Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or MBA Finance Minimum of 12 plus years of relevant experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis and 5 years in managing team of 4 or more[1] Knowledge of Randstad operations and systems is an asset Excel, Query and Reporting Key Competencies: Excellent written, communication, and presentation skills, ability to innovatively communicate complex information Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Excel (advanced excel skills) Ability to multi-task and be a self-starter Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, providing meaningful insights that are impactful Ability to influence management Ability to make improvements to keep pace with a fast moving environment Advanced excel or financial modeling skills Prior experience on working with essbase would be an added advance Prior experience in financial analysis, corporate FP&A experience is preferred Comfortable in time sensitive, fast-paced environment Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, focus on improving processes to eliminate waste Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify and escalate trends in Strong written and verbal communication skills Demonstrated experience making decisions in a high volume fast paced environment. Expectation to suggest improvements and optimize repetitive tasks @prem.chilukuri@randstaddigital.com added this _Assigned to prem.chilukuri@randstaddigital.com_