Senior Financial Planning Analyst- CA

Industry: Pharmaceuticals ( Full time)

Position: Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Qualification: CA

Experience: 3-4 Years

Salary: 22-25 LPA

Location: Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Working Days: 5 Days (Hybrid)

Job Profile:

Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategy planning

·        - Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP, PLN, LBE, ACT, Quarterly projections), submission in Global planning systems (BPC, SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast.

·        - Lead the financial planning & reporting processes including design of templates & processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.

·        - Timely address of queries from various stakeholders

·        - Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders, with the objective of adding value to the business.

·        - Understand, communicate, and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.

·        - Advise business teams on process-related matters that arise.

·        - Act as primary liaison with line of Asia consolidations team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information

Business Partnering:

·        Partner with India commercial leadership with supervision of Head Commercial Finance to drive commercial / financial objectives by leading affiliate or country-specific projects.

·        Create P&L statements and other reports on financial performance for executive management to review.

·        Preparation of monthly business review deck in collaboration with functional stakeholders

·        Leading finance on S&OP discussions for benchmark analysis & demand assumptions working with Supply Chain and commercial team.

Ad-hoc Projects, Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency

·        To take leadership or to provide support towards any business or finance projects as they arise.

·        To drive excellence in FP&A outputs

·        To identify and drive continuous process improvement, particularly around financial planning.

·        To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.

job QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS):

The requirements described in this section are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Education and Experience
• A minimum of 3-5 years progressive working experience, 2 years should be relevant FP&A experience in a pharmaceutical Industry.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.
• Education: Chartered Accountant
• Computer literacy
• Experience in using SAP S4 HANA
• Experience in system planning tools such as BPC/TM1 etc
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
• Language literacy
• English (Oral and written)

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies (includes Licenses, Credentials)

• Effectively manage the engagement and collaboration of the team to achieve a common goal
• Strong commercial analytical skill, strategy thinking, financial analysis and finance modelling skill
• Agile: could react quickly to requests in a short deadline and able to deliver with limited information or resources
• Process improvements & simplification
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively influence people
• Previous FP&A roles in pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Previous Cost Accounting experience preferred.
• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics Required.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹2,200,000.00 - ₹2,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• What is your current CTC in Lacs per annum?
• What is your expected CTC in Lacs per annum?
• What is your notice period?
• How many years of experience do you have in Budgeting & Forecasting?
• In which industry you are working currently?
• Do you have experience in SAP S4 HANA?
• Do you have experience in Financial Planning & Global Planning system and Variance analysis?

• Do you have prior experience in Pharma or Healthcare industry?

Work Location: In person