FP&A Senior Associate - People Cost

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Finance professional to join a high performing Global FPA team operating in a fast growth Global Financial Services organisation.

In this 3rd phase, there are a few openings at all levels (Associate, Senior Associate, Assistant Vice President and Vice President).

The Global FPA team is functionally structured with Group Reporting (which includes synergy reporting as well), Revenue Partnering, People Cost Partnering and Expense Partnering (all expenses except People Cost) as the main pillars. Recently we have also introduced and working towards setting up a Regional Partnership Team. The Entire Team and each Pillar is led by extremely knowledgeable, experienced, dedicated, and professional leaders. With organisational growth there is a need to expand the existing FPA team by creating a Global Service centre (GSC) which will help enhance the overall functionality of the FPA profile.

Basis the specific function the activities may differ but an overall list of activities covered under the various roles are as below:

• Close partnership with the FPA HR Business Partner
• Understand the main drivers while performing various activities under the different pillars (functions) of the Global FPA Team to help perform better
• Perform and own day to day, monthly BAU activities and ad hoc requests
• Perform the yearly Forecast and Planning activities
• Actual vs Plan
• Role Relocation / Target Operating Model Tracking
• Synergy Tracking
• Do a Deep dive analysis of the PL with detailed commentary for various Stakeholders
• The Leadership team(Global FPA)
• Group Segment / Product Leads and Group Regional Heads
• Group CFO
• Group COO
• Assist the seniors in preparing various reports and dash boards (e.g: Reports related to Profitability, revenue growth, trend analytics etc)
• Help in new system implementation (Workday)
• Work within the team to create a robust team culture with proper back up for processes, SOP documentation
• Work towards automation (basis requirement), systemtransformation, innovation projects, enhancing the processes for better control and analytics
• For Leadership roles, the leads will need to drive, own and work towards creating a robust structure functionally and administratively

Skills Required:

• Minimum of 2-15 years Financial Planning Analysis experience (Depending on the position)
• Proficiency in Microsoft package (Word/Excel/Power Point/Power BI)
• Knowledge of Workday/Adaptive Planning (Group Management Reporting system) preferred
• Project Management Skills, Self-starter, Ability to multitask, good team player
• Take accountability and end to end ownership of the tasks managed
• Decision making capability and Attention to detail
• Customer Centricity (Stakeholder Centricity)
• Good Communication Stakeholder Management skills
• Strong Time Management skill, ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrable use and management of large data sets
• Data analytics and visualisation skills
• Knowledge of Prophix (group management reporting system) and Financial Force an added advantage