Role Purpose:
Manage and coordinate the Planning & Performance to enable delivery of timely and accurate management reporting which will assist in decision making. The role will support departments and group companies with the necessary analytics as required. The role will support development and implementation of value-add planning and analysis tools, in addition the role is responsible for the continuous improvement on process and system of FP&A activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Management Reporting:
- Develop and implement effective management reporting and analysis
- Prepare annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, monthly and weekly flash reports and ensure integrity of data
- Review actuals against budgets/forecasts and highlight anomalies to drive future financial performance
- Measure key KPIs and performance drivers of business
- Identify effective overhead and working capital reporting/analysis to drive productivity
- Coordinate, review and distribute weekly reports, flash reporting, Reporting Packs and analysis to relevant stakeholders
- Assist with rollout and implementation of consistent and unified reporting across group companies
Business Partnering and Support:
- Partner with senior management to drive growth
- Support building new go to market models
- Enhance the execution rhythm across businesses leveraging digital tools and periodic reviews enabling faster execution
- Ensure tight fiscal discipline - control discretionary spends & driving value from investments
- Drive bottom line discipline by robust processes around leakages
- Scenario analysis for various expansion/ diversification/ capital projects
Governance:
- Ensure appropriate accountability and performance standards are met and maintain high levels of confidentiality and sensitivity
- Maintain high quality of presentation, clarification, and accuracy with all information disseminated
- Highlight and manage risk by providing an independent assessment of the health of the business
- Ensure the necessary review and pressure testing of presented information for budgets, forecast, monthly and weekly information is conducted before issuing to the necessary stakeholders.
Support:
- Liaise with Subsidiary Finance Managers in the budgeting, forecasting, monthly and weekly reporting process
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to key stakeholders
- Support internal and external audit processes
Continuous Improvement:
- Leverage AI and Data Analytics to drive productivity and improve reporting rigor
- Invest time to improve systems and FP&A activities to focus on automating activities / processes
- Identify improvement and productivity in processes, improving quality whilst reducing cycle time
- Develop new reporting models to support business requirements for scalable businesses
Job Specific Requirements:
- CA with 3 to 4 years experience across FP&A and Business/Commercial Finance
- Experience in a large manufacturing company (similar industry/sector is advantageous)
- Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with SAP (S4 Hana preferred)
- Location: Goa
Skills / Competencies Required:
- Good business acumen, strong relationship building skills and a pragmatic nature
- Understands how the business delivers value to shareholders, what drives profitability and what increases growth
- Negotiates successful outcomes that achieve the required objectives and have the support and acceptance of all parties
- Implement and monitor processes, to deliver improved analytics to the business to support management decisions
- Ability to flex between a strong eye for the detail and recognizing the bigger picture
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to gain the confidence of senior management
- Pro-active, goal oriented with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent customer focus
- Effectively manages change to work tasks and the work environment, and assists others with adapting to change
- A person of integrity who is trusted by others and consistently honors their commitments
- Able to identify issues, problems and opportunities; make timely decisions; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance if required
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, and make presentations when required
- Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance
- Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity
- Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams, and share and transfer knowledge within teams
