Role- Business Analyst Manager
Location- Gurugram
Work Model - Hybrid
Shift Timings- 5PM to 2AM IST (cabs will be provided)
ROLE SUMMARY:
The Business Analytics Manager gathers data and analyzes key business metrics to drive strategic results focused on improvement in Days Sales Outstanding. Combining an understanding of data analysis, modeling and reporting in the functional area of accounts receivable and days sales outstanding, this role will perform various financial planning and analysis processes to provide actionable insights to executive leaders and ensure financial objectives are achieved.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
Data Analysis and Reporting:
- Gather, analyze, and interpret data to identify trends and insights.
- Perform modeling and analytics required to synthesize large sets of data and produce concise outputs to deliver business insights, reporting and analyses, and recommendations to leadership
- Provide financial models and forecasting for accounts receivable and days sales outstanding.
- Analyze current financial data performance against actual results, quarterly forecasts and annual improvement targets
- Develop and maintain rolling dashboards, trend analyses, models, and visualizations that track actual and forecast sales by customer and within lines of business, accounts receivable balances at customer levels, average days to pay and days sales outstanding
- Conduct customer mix analysis of payment terms within brands
- Identify trends in financial performance and provide recommendations for improvement
Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration:
- Work cross-functionally with the broader Finance Team and Brand Operations Leaders to fully understand each brands business and drivers of revenue and accounts receivable, its customers and overall operations.
- Create monthly reports and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations.
- Summarize data and assessments into recommendations for business leader approval
- Establish key internal business relationships with departmental customers
- Create recurring business reports for management team and various business segment partners to understand performance and present valuable actionable insights
- Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams.
- Communicate findings, recommendations, and project updates to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects meet business needs.
Requirements Gathering and Analysis:
- Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements.
- Collect, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Identify and prioritize functional and technical needs.
- Translate business needs into technical requirements.
Process Improvement and Modeling:
- Analyze existing business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and document business process data flow/structure models.
- Create process flow diagrams and other visualizations.
- Suggest solutions and improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity.
- Support the implementation of new and/or changes to processes.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field
- 5+ years of relevant finance experience analyzing data, creating dashboards, graphical visualizations, analyzing volume metrics and financial reports
- In-depth understanding of technology applications, how they work and what makes each different
- Familiarity with financial industry technology systems to gather data and solve problems.
- Advanced Excel (i.e. VLOOKUP, pivot tables, etc) and PowerPoint skills
- Experience with PowerBI, Alteryx, SQL or other analytical tools and databases
- Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of people including stakeholders, developers, and organizational leaders and build relationships.
- Strong interpersonal skills including patience, motivation and dependability
- Critical thinker with resourcefulness and ability to devise and create and communicate timely solutions to medium-to-complex problems.
- Solid organizational and project management skills
- Strong multi-tasker with ability to prioritize and adapt fast in an ever-changing environment
- Effectively manage numerous projects at a given time in a fast-paced environment
- Detail-orientated and able to distinguish between similar processes
- Ability to think creatively, work independently and as part of a team to solve problems given limited resources and time and, have a strong work ethic, and adhere to deadlines.
- Familiarity with Credit and Collections operations
