Senior Associate/Assistant Vice President, Finance, Central Operations Office

As a key member of the Group Finance team, your role involves ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Group's books and records. You will be responsible for providing financial insights and variance analysis through monthly MIS reports. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will play a crucial role in preparing annual budgets and monitoring actuals against budgets and forecasts. Your financial analysis skills will be utilized to provide insights to management for effective decision-making. Key Responsibilities: - Responsible for monthly MIS, financial insights, and variance analysis. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prepare annual budgets. - Monitor actuals against budgets and forecasts. - Provide financial analysis and insights for effective decision-making. - Build forecasts with multiple simulations of factors affecting the cost base. - Analyze cost drivers, evaluate cost-saving opportunities. - Support Finance and FP&A team in creating P&L statements, MIS reports, and other financial documentation. - Analyze and monitor financial data, including revenue, spending, headcount movement, and expenses. - Assist in preparing annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans. - Collaborate with teams to gather data for financial analysis and operational efficiency. - Support monthly financial reporting process, including variance analysis. - Communicate business performance to leaders, explaining variances. - Prepare ad-hoc financial analyses and reports for decision-making. - Review the Chart of Accounts and prepare monthly schedules aligning with financial statements. - Support continuous improvement and team growth and development. - Provide decision support to key collaborators. - Analyze complex ideas and proposals, providing meaningful recommendations. Qualifications Required: - 10-15 years of post-qualification experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, general accounting, Financial Analytics. - Qualified CA / CMA. - Working knowledge of Hyperion/HFM is a requirement. - Extensive experience in managing complex MS Excel sheets and expert knowledge of MS PowerPoint. As a candidate for this role, your experience in financial planning and analysis, along with your expertise in financial analytics and accounting, will be invaluable. Your proficiency in Hyperion/HFM and Excel, combined with your ability to provide meaningful insights and recommendations, will contribute significantly to the Group Finance team's success.,