Financial Planning Analyst

Designation: Associate/Deputy Manager/ Manager

Band: E3

Position: Senior Manager

Location: Chennai

Experience : 8+ Yrs

Qualification:

Chartered Accountant

Purpose the Role:

To ensure accurate and timely financial Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting and compliance while coordinating with cross-functional teams and leveraging tools like Excel, Power BI, and SAP to support business decisions effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance MIS reporting:

• Preparing Management reports covering financial highlights on Quarterly/Monthly spent with respect to budget, cost optimization levers.
• Preparation of weekly reports required for management analysis
• Production of special reports required by business head on respective enabling departments.

• Forecasting and Analysis:

• Managing & Co-ordinating the monthly forecasting process
• Working closely with business to managing & co-ordinating the monthly forecasting. Develop, perform, and manage the analyses of financial metrics as well as performance measures
• Develop the reports showing movements in financial records like cost comparison, variance analysis etc.

• Budgeting, Cost Control & Optimization

• Preparation and tracking Budget utilizations. Knowing Zero based budgeting technique is an advantage
• Experience of evaluating investment proposals in terms of criticality, financial impact and Cost benefit analysis.
• Deriving Initiatives to bring cost optimization and strengthen the process

• Finance Partner:

• Provide insights to business leaders and work with them to drive efficiency
• Engage in the development of new processes and tools to deliver impactful and significant insights that drive decision making
• Responsible for Automations of various business reports in Qlik tool and automation of MIS process to help improve productivity

Inter-personal competencies

-Strong quantitative skills.

-Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

-Verbal & written communication and presentation skills.

-Working knowledge of SAP and expert in Excel.