Project Role: Associate Manager, Business Unit Finance
Work Experience: CA with 3 + years experience in Business Finance
Work location: Bangalore
Work Mode: Hybrid
Overview
The Associate Manager, Business Unit Finance will serve as a strategic finance partner to business leaders, driving financial performance, supporting strategic decision-making, and enhancing operational efficiency. This role requires strong analytical capabilities, financial leadership, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed environment.
Key Responsibilities
Business Finance Partnering
- Act as a strategic partner to business leaders, providing financial insights and recommendations to drive growth and support day-to-day operations.
- Collaborate closely with divisional heads and cross-functional teams (Sales, Operations, Marketing) to align financial strategies with business objectives.
Planning, Reporting & Forecasting
- Support the development of annual operating and financial plans.
- Oversee quarterly and monthly management reporting, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Conduct comprehensive monthly reviews of P&L statements. ( vs Plan, Forecast,PY etc )
- Partner with Operations/PPMs to build monthly forecasts for P&L.
Performance Measurement & Improvement
- Track, analyze, and report key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Drive performance improvement initiatives to support effective P&L and balance sheet management.
- Ensure delivery of financial targets through proactive performance management and insights.
Operational Excellence
- Identify and implement cost-optimization initiatives and process improvements.
- Enhance operational efficiency by streamlining financial workflows and reducing manual
- interventions.
Financial Modeling & Automation
- Develop and maintain advanced financial models and dashboards to support business
- decision-making.
- Lead automation initiatives to improve reporting accuracy, efficiency, and process scalability.
Special Projects
- Evaluate new business cases and provide timely, accurate financial recommendations.
- Conduct scenario analyses and business impact assessments for strategic proposals.
Revenue Management
- Strengthen the revenue assurance process to ensure accuracy and integrity.
- Build robust revenue forecasts through pipeline analysis, backlog review, and new opportunity
- tracking.
Product Costing & Pricing
- Lead end-to-end product costing and pricing processes.
- Ensure pricing decisions are aligned with profitability goals and market positioning.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Support
- Partner with cross-functional teams during M&A activities, including due diligence and post-deal
- integration.
- Provide financial analysis, risk assessment, and valuation support as required.
Experience & Qualifications Required
- Chartered Accountant (CA). with 3+ years of progressive experience in Finance, including FP&A, Business Finance, and Controllership.
- Should have worked with Business and Managed Stake Holders
- Experience in Business Finance, FPNA , Reporting and Analysis in Mandatory
- Need candidate who have completed their CA
- Candidates should have experience providing financial reports, Insights and Analytics to the BU
- Strong understanding of accrual-based accounting, forecasting, budgeting, and internal financial controls.
- Experience working in global, matrixed organizations.
- Proven track record of establishing KPIs, performance metrics, and service delivery standards.
- Hands-on experience with financial planning and reporting tools such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Hyperion ,and Power BI.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Ability to thrive in dynamic environments with ambiguity, change, and scaling operations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial storytelling capabilities
