Financial Planning and Analysis Lead

Role & responsibilities

A Business Planning lead plays a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction and

operational efficiency of a company. Responsible for analyzing market trends, financial

data, and operational metrics to provide insights that inform decision-making processes.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, they help translate organizational goals into

measurable objectives, preparation and collation of budgets, annual and long term plans,

and performance tracking

Preferred candidate profile

• Responsible for preparing and collating long term /annual plan as company strategy as planned by the management.
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis, Variance Analysis, for each line items against plan, examining performance, to forecast future revenues, expenses, and profits. Also use this information to develop financial models and projections that guide strategic decision-making by management.
• Implementation and compliance of budgetary control process. Also Responsible for developing and monitoring budgets across different departments or business units. They collaborate with department heads to establish financial targets, track performance against these targets.
• liaisons and sharing of the actual final performance vis--vis targets with various departments within the organization, and enabling and advising them for improvement in cost and revenue.
• Validation of product costing and pricing and advising or supporting management in their decision making with overall profitability of the company.
• Identifying areas for cost reduction and advising Sr. Management for implementation of same to improve profitability.
• Automation of cost and revenue Dashboards for efficient analysis reporting.