Position: Director- FP&A
About Simplilearn
Founded in 2010 and based in Plano, Texas, and Bangalore, India, Simplilearn, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a global leader in digital upskilling, enabling learners across the globe with access to world-class training to individuals and businesses worldwide. Simplilearn offers 1,500+ live classes each month across 150+ countries, impacting over 8 million learners globally. The programs are designed and delivered with world-renowned universities, top corporations, and leading industry bodies via live online classes featuring top industry practitioners, sought-after trainers, and global leaders. From college students and early career professionals to managers, executives, small businesses, and big corporations, Simplilearn's role-based, skill-focused, industry-recognized, and globally relevant training programs are ideal upskilling solutions for diverse career or business goals.
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our finance team as the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). As the Head of FP&A, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial strategy, providing critical insights, and ensuring sound financial management.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Financial Leadership: Provide strategic financial leadership and partner with the CFO/ CXO in shaping the financial direction of the company.
- Financial Reporting: Oversee the preparation of internal and external financial reports, Vertical , Geography and business profitability
- Arrive at business matrices to track the profitability of business and work closely with business
- Cost optimization: Work with business leaders to review key cost items and arrive at strategy and metrics to improve [profitability
- Work closely with Controllership team to review the cost data and work collaboratively to arrive at the business analytics
- Business partnering : Partner with business regarding the growth plans and cost optimization initiatives
- Scenario analysis and business plan Covering the short term and long term plans
- including Board of Directors materials, monthly financial analysis reports, and other ad hoc analyses as needed.
- Budgeting and Forecasting: Lead the month-end and quarter-end P&L distribution and forecast consolidation for various departments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Financial Insights: Collaborate with business operations and key stakeholders to generate requested reporting outputs, extracting meaningful insights from financial data.
- Decision Support: Execute value-added analysis and provide decision support for special projects and initiatives, contributing to data-driven decision-making.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous process improvement in financial planning and analysis, optimizing efficiency and accuracy.
- Presentation: Assist in developing finance and business presentations and supporting materials to communicate financial information effectively.
Required Skills:
- MBA/CA with 10+ years of progressive experience in Business finance roles preferably in the Edutech, IT/ITES industry.
- Demonstrated success in Business partnering, financial modeling and analysis.
- Experience with financial planning and analysis functions, including annual budgeting, capital budgeting, long-term strategic planning, and resource allocation processes.
- Effective support to CXOs in decision making process
- Strong understanding of accounting and finance principles.
- Makes confident, fact-based decisions.
- Approaches problems from different perspectives to suggest and implement solutions.
- Forecasts issues in advance to prevent potential impacts both internally and externally.
- Ability to solve complex problems.
- Adept at using logic and reasoning to work through problems and analyze information.
- Team player who can work collaboratively with key stakeholders and other finance verticals.
