Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Role Overview:

The FP&A Lead will drive the company’s financial planning, analysis, and decision-support initiatives across business verticals. This role will be central to building a scalable business finance function — encompassing budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking, and real-time insights to enable leadership decision-making. The ideal candidate is hands-on, data-driven, and comfortable working in a high-growth, multi-BU environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Budgeting

• Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process for the company and business units.
• Partner with business and functional heads to prepare realistic financial projections and identify key drivers of growth and profitability.
• Support long-range financial planning in alignment with company goals and strategic priorities.

Business Finance & Decision Support:

• Act as a business partner to BU heads, providing analytical insights, variance analysis, and recommendations to improve P&L performance.
• Create and manage business dashboards that enable real-time visibility into key metrics and decision-making.
• Drive accountability through financial discipline, performance monitoring, and actionable insights.

Financial Modelling & Analysis

• Build and maintain robust financial models covering revenue, costs, cash flow, and scenario analysis.
• Support board presentations, investor decks, and management reviews with detailed yet insightful analysis.
• Ensure alignment between accounting, business finance, and FP&A views to maintain one source of truth.

Leadership & Process Excellence:

• Set up and strengthen FP&A processes, policies, and governance structures.
• Mentor and lead a small team to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial outputs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, supply chain, and strategy teams to translate numbers into business actions.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, or related finance roles.
• Proven exposure to multi-BU environments and scaling organisations (preferably in high-growth tech, EV, or service sectors).
• Strong understanding of budgeting, P&L ownership, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to build dashboards and automate reporting for business impact.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; working knowledge of SQL / database querying will be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience presenting to CXOs / board-level stakeholders.

Personality Traits:

• High ownership and bias for action.
• Data-driven and detail-oriented mindset.
• Ability to balance analytical depth with business practicality.
• Collaborative yet assertive in decision-making.
• Comfort in ambiguity and ability to build from scratch.

Education:

• CA / MBA (Finance) / CFA preferred.