Lead Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Description

Position Title: Lead, FP&A Location: Mohali Position Type: Regular, Full-time The FP&A Lead will be responsible for directing and organizing the financial planning and analysis process across the company, including the preparation, reporting, variance analysis of the departmental budgets, forecasts, and key financial metrics. You will provide insights and sound business advice to the finance leadership and executive management teams on best practices, business trends, and investment opportunities. This position will be the key point of contact for FP&A on their monthly forecast and annual budget process. You will lead and conduct special projects involving financial analysis and research of business issues to provide senior management with financial data and business advice to support resource allocation decisions and objectives for corporate growth and profitability. This is a key position, which will report into the Head of FP&A and work closely with the senior management including the CEO, Business unit heads, and other key stakeholders. What you'll do: Be a valued business partner and trusted advisor to senior management to provide highly complex financial and technical analysis and recommendations regarding current and proposed business opportunities, and/or internal measurements and methodologies Direct FP&A for all components of corporate financials including revenue, operating expenses, working capital, capital expenditures and cash flow Leading company-wide strategic planning, budget, and quarterly target-setting processes, including monthly forecasts and key performance monitoring Coordinating budget reviews, and corporate budget consolidation Key driver for development of strategic and operational plans, annual budgeting, process, financial forecasting, business support and reporting Develop and institutionalize financial models, analyses, key business metrics that serves as a tool to drive profitable business growth, efficiency and improvement Identify, assess, value and prioritize current and emerging product portfolio and other business initiatives, through regressive financial analysis and business cases Providing analytical perspectives and executive financial summaries to important strategic decisions, including M&A activities and significant capital investments Tracking sales pipeline closely to bring about more accurate revenue forecast and operational expenditure requirements Preparing periodic detailed reports with analytics. Ensure that financial reporting of the business performance is accurate and timely Interface with senior leadership regarding financial results, forecasts, planning assumptions and other projects Who were looking for: BS degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant. Additional qualification of CA Inter would be preferred Should have 10 -15 years of experience in the Finance Department of a reputed organization Must be excellent at crunching numbers & able to understand the impact of any transaction in numbers terms Excellent functional knowledge of accounting systems, processes, fund flow management, statutory compliances, taxation, MIS reporting to senior management Must have good oral and in writing communication skills