Financial Planning Analyst

Industry: Pharmaceuticals (Full time)

Position: Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Qualification: CA

Experience: 3-4 Years

Location: Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Working Days: 5 Days (Hybrid)

Job Profile:

Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategy planning:

- Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP, PLN, LBE, ACT, Quarterly projections), submission in Global planning systems (BPC, SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast.

- Lead the financial planning & reporting processes including design of templates & processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.

- Timely address of queries from various stakeholders

- Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders, with the objective of adding value to the business.

- Understand, communicate, and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.

- Advise business teams on process-related matters that arise.

- Act as primary liaison with line of Asia consolidations team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information

Business Partnering:

- Partner with India commercial leadership with supervision of Head Commercial Finance to drive commercial / financial objectives by leading affiliate or country-specific projects.

- Create P&L statements and other reports on financial performance for executive management to review.

- Preparation of monthly business review deck in collaboration with functional stakeholders

- Leading finance on S&OP discussions for benchmark analysis & demand assumptions working with Supply Chain and commercial team.

Ad-hoc Projects, Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency:

- To take leadership or to provide support towards any business or finance projects as they arise.

- To drive excellence in FP&A outputs

- To identify and drive continuous process improvement, particularly around financial planning.

- To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.

job QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS):

The requirements described in this section are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Education and Experience:

A minimum of 3-5 years progressive working experience, 2 years should be relevant FP&A experience in a pharmaceutical Industry.

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.

Education: Chartered Accountant

Computer literacy

Experience in using SAP S4 HANA

Experience in system planning tools such as BPC/TM1 etc

Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools

Language literacy:

English (Oral and written)

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies (includes Licenses, Credentials):

- Effectively manage the engagement and collaboration of the team to achieve a common goal

- Strong commercial analytical skill, strategy thinking, financial analysis and finance modelling skill

- Agile: could react quickly to requests in a short deadline and able to deliver with limited information or resources

- Process improvements & simplification

- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively influence people

- Previous FP&A roles in pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred.

- Previous Cost Accounting experience preferred.

Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics Required.