Financial Planning Analyst_International

The role based in Bangalore supports international business units and the corporate FP&A function. Your key responsibilities will involve preparing financial reports, KPIs, dashboards, forecasts, budgets, and ad hoc analyses. Additionally, you will contribute to monthly financial reviews by creating visualizations and ensuring commentary aligns with data and FP&A insights. Your main duties will include creating, maintaining, and distributing recurring financial reports for corporate and business unit reviews on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. You will build dashboards and visualizations to track KPIs such as revenue, gross margin, OpEx, and EBITDA. It will be important to ensure timely and accurate reporting by coordinating with accounting, operations, and other stakeholders. Developing and maintaining financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning will also fall under your purview. You will be expected to analyze performance variances and translate financial data into operational insights. Monitoring bookings, backlog, and sales metrics across currencies will be essential to provide global revenue analysis. You will assist in developing and managing budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans for International. Documenting standardized FP&A processes and reporting procedures will be part of your responsibilities. Driving process improvements to enhance data accuracy and reporting efficiency will also be expected. Supporting ad hoc analyses, including customer profitability, pricing, and investment evaluation, will also be required. To be successful in this role, you should possess advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas such as INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, array functions, and dynamic named ranges for scalable modeling and large dataset analysis. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a focus on interpreting financial data and generating actionable insights are crucial. You should have a high attention to detail and a structured, logical approach to solving unfamiliar or ambiguous problems. A solid grasp of financial statements and accounting principles, applied in forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, is necessary. Being a clear and effective communicator, able to present complex financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences, is important. Proficiency in building dashboards and visualizations in Power BI (or similar tools) to support data-driven decision-making is desired. You should possess a Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field, along with 2-3 years of accounting/finance experience. Strong organizational skills are required, as you will be managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment. Being a self-starter with adaptability, quick learning, and the ability to work independently is essential. Comfort with working with databases and multiple data sources across reporting systems is also beneficial.,