Principal Associate - FP&A

About Team: Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team works closely with the CFO, FP&A head, and all the other functions to enable and improve data-driven decision-making. The team enables financial planning, and allocation of funds, and uses structured problem-solving approaches along with a wide range of statistical/ operations research techniques to create productized solutions for business teams to consume. Role: We are seeking to hire a talented Finance Professional for the FP&A team. This role offers a wide spectrum of responsibilities spanning from Financial and strategic planning, dynamic resource allocation framework for growth and P&L sustainability, driving efficiency charters across the P&L line items,performance management, business analytics and benchmarking with external companies. Responsibilities: ? Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial plans to be executed. Hold guardrails forinvestment to maximize topline growth? Develop financial model for planning, budgeting, variance analysis and performancemanagement? Strategic Planning, AOP and LRP creation with thorough and detailed how-lists for topline andP&L line items? Lead the MEC process with stakeholders from Business Finance and Controllership. Actionupon the key risks and opportunities with agility? Identify opportunities for efficiencies across the org and partner with respective teams todevelop action plan to maximize the returns on investment for topline growth as well as costoptimization? Leverage SQL to extract and manipulate financial data for analysis, Create and maintaindashboards and reports using SQL based tools? Handle complex ad hoc request with a shorter turnaround time and supplement such requestwith appropriate analysis and insights for enabling business decision-making? Assessment and dissemination of impact on business due to macro trends, benchmarking withnational and international peer companies to identify the growth and PL opportunities and bestpractices for implementation.? Prepare insightful reports and presentations to communicate and disseminate financialperformance to senior leadership and other stakeholders Qualifications and Competencies ? MBA (Finance) from Tier 1 institute or Qualified Chartered Accountant with 3 to 5 yearsexperience in Business Finance or FP&A team? Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, demonstrated ability of problem-identification andsolving, detail-oriented with a strong commitment to accuracy? Strong Command on SQL for data extraction, analysis and reporting. Proficiency in Python or R isdesirable? Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, with proven ability topresent to the leadership team? Ability to take ownership and work on multiple projects independently in a fast-paced environment