Overview

Lead the Finance Planning & Analysis function within the India Capability Center (ICC), delivering high-quality planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision support to global and regional stakeholders.
Position the ICC as a strategic finance partner by moving beyond transactional reporting toward forward-looking insights, scalable analytics, and actionable recommendations.
Build a high-performing FP&A team with strong business acumen, financial discipline, digital capability, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

Own and coordinate annual operating plans, budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly outlooks for the assigned global businesses or functions.
Lead monthly and quarterly performance reviews, explaining actuals versus plan and forecast, identifying root causes, and recommending corrective actions.
Develop driver-based models, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses to assess business risks, opportunities, investments, and strategic choices.
Translate complex financial and operational data into concise executive-level insights, narratives, and decision recommendations.
Partner with global functions including finance, commercial, operations, supply chain, HR, and other functional leaders to improve decisions, resource allocation, and performance.
Partner with ICC Controls team to ensure accurate billing communication and tracking to the Regions.
Clear tracking to Compensation & Benefits and other costs vs AOP/Forecast with clear COC for drivers for variances along with Risks and Opportunities analysis
Establish consistent KPIs, definitions, reporting standards, calendars, and governance across the ICC planning process.
Strengthen forecast accuracy through disciplined assumptions, business-driver analysis, challenge processes, and regular risk-and-opportunity reviews.
Ensure management reporting is accurate, timely, reconciled to source systems and the general ledger, and supported by clear controls and documentation.
Lead the transition, stabilization, and expansion of FP&A activities into the ICC while maintaining service continuity and stakeholder confidence.
Standardize and simplify processes, eliminate non-value-added work, and build scalable service-delivery models with clear service levels and ownership.
Champion automation, self-service reporting, advanced analytics, and effective use of data-visualization tools including Cockpit.
Lead and develop one direct report through clear objectives, coaching, quality reviews, career development, succession planning, and targeted capability building.
Manage team capacity, priorities, and delivery across time zones, balancing recurring cycles, transformation initiatives, and urgent business requests.
Promote strong governance, financial integrity, confidentiality, compliance with corporate policies, and adherence to internal-control requirements.
Influence senior stakeholders in a matrix environment, constructively challenge assumptions, resolve delivery issues, and communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly.

Measures of Success

Improved forecast accuracy and quality of financial insights.
On-time, accurate, and well-controlled planning and reporting cycles.
Clear business impact from identified risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
Higher stakeholder satisfaction and expanded strategic scope for the ICC.
Measurable productivity gains from standardization, automation, and self-service reporting.
Strong team engagement, capability growth, retention, and succession readiness.
Successful transition and stabilization of new FP&A activities without disruption to business delivery.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications and Experience

Chartered Accountant, CMA, MBA in Finance, or equivalent postgraduate finance qualification.
Typically 8-10 years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business finance, or performance management, including significant leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience leading FP&A delivery in a Global Capability Center, shared-services organization, or complex multinational environment.
Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, financial modelling, scenario planning, and performance management.
Proven ability to partner with senior global stakeholders and influence decisions across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.
Experience leading process transitions, standardization, finance transformation, or operating-model change with measurable outcomes.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, working knowledge of SAP and Mosaic/TM1 is an add on
Excellent written and verbal English communication, executive presentation, problem-solving, project-management, and change-leadership skills.
Willingness to collaborate across global time zones as business needs require.

Leadership Competencies

Strategic and commercial mindset: Connects business strategy and operational drivers to financial outcomes.
Insight-led decision support: Converts analysis into clear choices, recommendations, and action.
Global stakeholder leadership: Builds trust, challenges constructively, and aligns diverse partners.
People leadership: Develops talent, creates accountability, and delivers results through others.
Transformation orientation: Simplifies, standardizes, automates, and scales finance capabilities.
Execution excellence: Maintains high standards of accuracy, timeliness, controls, and follow-through.
Learning agility: Operates effectively in ambiguity and adapts quickly to changing priorities.

Associate Director- Finance