Financial Planning & Analysis- Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial analysis. You have found the right team. As an Associate in Planning and Analysis within our financial team, you will coordinate the budgeting and forecasting process, and prepare management reports and presentations. Your responsibilities will include executing monthly and quarterly cost allocation processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, and collaborating with source teams to resolve data gaps and volume inconsistencies. You will perform rigorous checks on allocation inputs to ensure data integrity and transparency, and work closely with other teams to validate the end-to-end flow of volumes and allocations. Your role will also involve automating existing processes, identifying anomalies, and promoting corrective actions with appropriate stakeholders. You will conduct cost analysis to understand trends, variances, and business unit performance, providing actionable insights to optimize resource usage and cost efficiency. Lastly, you will support budget vs. actual comparisons, forecast accuracy, and root cause analysis, while preparing reports and dashboards for business units, service owners, and senior management. Job Responsibilities Executing monthly and quarterly cost allocation processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Collaborate with source teams to resolve data gaps and volume inconsistencies. Performing rigorous checks on allocation inputs (usage volumes, cost centers, rate cards) to ensure data integrity and transparency. Working closely with upstream and downstream teams to validate the end-to-end flow of volumes and allocations. Automate the existing process. Identifying anomalies and driving corrective actions with appropriate stakeholders. Conduct cost analysis to understand trends, variances, and business unit performance. Providing actionable insights to optimize resource usage and cost efficiency. Supporting budget vs. actual comparisons, forecast accuracy, and root cause analysis. Preparing reports and dashboards for business units, service owners, and senior management. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Minimum 5 years experience in an analytical and financial role and should have worked on Banking products (601) Hands-on experience with SAPCO, particularly in processing and validating usage volumes. Strong Excel skills are a must, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, lookups, conditional formatting, and model building. Exposure to enterprise reporting or visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau. Strong analytical thinking, accuracy, and attention to detail. Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.