Sr. FP&A Analyst

Company Description

Scope of this role

Responsibilities

• Planning & Budgeting; current year and mid/long-term rolling corporate estimates and forecasts including cash forecasting. Serve as a thought leader to drive process improvement and create documentation to set precedence.
• Performance tracking against operating plans and KPIs; identifying risks and opportunities, driving accountability.
• Business intelligence, insight identification, and decision analytics for business partners and executive teams.
• Execute financial close and reporting processes in partnership with controllership, commercial, and accounting teams. Also, look for opportunities related to process improvement and drive change.
• Analyze financial performance, highlight trends and variances against budget and forecast with qualitative comments. Variance analysis of actuals vs forecast with key highlights/call outs to the management.
• Foster strong relationships with stakeholders, promoting effective communication and collaboration
• Lead and partner with cross-functional business teams in delivering analytics, data, and insights to drive key business decisions and support negotiations.
• Actively partner with global leaders to drive standardization, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Actively drive automation of reporting at the corporate level; support the FP&A organization through an end-to-end enterprise transformation.
  

Qualifications

• Qualified CA or MBA in finance from Tier 1 or Tier 2 colleges
• CFA with close to 4 years of work ex or more) can be an ideal fit for the role
• Prior FP&A Experience required (4-5 years minimum) FP&A/ reporting/data analytics experience across revenue, expense, cash or capex.
• Sound fundamentals on financial knowledge, analytical/data modeling ability, and sound understanding of the media ecosystem including some understanding of Nielsen’s products and services
• Ability to develop constructive relationships with executives and colleagues across the organization
• Experience with analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Google Data Studio, and spreadsheet tools (excel, Google Sheets) is required.
  

A Little About You -

• Strong work ethic, self-motivated work style, attention to detail, effective communicator
• Ability to organize multiple responsibilities and deliver results in an accurate and timely manner while adapting to changes in priorities.
• Ability to influence and strategically partner with individuals of various educational and technical backgrounds, both inside and outside the organization
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to gather, analyze, and present data
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure
• Self-starter with a strong sense of urgency and follow-up skills.
  

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