Head - Financial Planning, Analysis & Business Reporting

As the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, your primary responsibility is to oversee financial planning, forecasting, profit and loss reporting, and performance analysis to provide businesses and management with timely, accurate insights. You will be expected to raise red flags and propose recommendations to improve the company's financial health. Working closely with the CFO and MD, you will analyze profitability and productivity across all channels, locations, verticals, and products to offer strategic inputs to the business. Your role will involve preparing Annual Operating Plans and Long Range Plans by aligning stakeholders for seamless execution. Providing financial leadership, you will recommend, develop, and implement policies and programs that enable profitability across business lines and sales channels. You will be responsible for owning the budgeting process and ensuring completion within desired timelines. In this position, you will deliver strategic financial insights to business units and enhance FP&A processes by leveraging financial technology for improved efficiency. Your ability to develop and implement comprehensive financial strategies to achieve the company's objectives will be crucial. Monitoring and evaluating financial performance, you will create action plans to address variances and build and maintain financial models to support decision-making, scenario analysis, and forecasting. Additionally, you will lead the capital planning team, providing guidance and training to ensure compliance with policies and regulations. To excel in this role, you should possess excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, strong problem-solving and solution-creation capabilities, and skills in influencing and negotiating with senior management and stakeholders. A critical thinking and analytical mindset, along with a CA or MBA qualification, will be essential to succeed in this position.,