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Role Summary:
Join athenahealth as a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst and play a key role in shaping financial insight and operational decision-making. This position is based in Chennai, India and is offered as a hybrid role. Then FP&A Analyst will support expense management, monthly close activities, vendor planning, and financial performance reporting, and will report to the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager.
Team Summary:
Embedded in the FP&A team, this role focuses on supporting expense management, monthly close activities, vendor planning, and financial performance reporting. The Analyst partners with managers, business stakeholders, and peers to prepare clear financial presentations, deliver actionable analyses, and ensure timely, accurate reporting. Responsibilities include consolidating and analyzing financial data, maintaining budgets and forecasts, identifying variance drivers, and recommending opportunities to optimize spend and improve financial performance. The role requires cross-functional collaboration with accounting, procurement, and business unit stakeholders to translate financial results into practical next steps and to support business planning cycles.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain monthly and quarterly financial reports and dashboards that summarize expense performance and key metrics.
- Analyze variances between actuals, budgets, and forecasts identify drivers and communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Manage and execute parts of the monthly close process related to expense accounts and vendor activity.
- Prepare and present financial analyses and executive-ready materials for leadership reviews and planning sessions.
- Build and maintain financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (procurement, accounting, business units) to support vendor planning and expense optimization initiatives.
- Support ad hoc financial requests and special projects that enhance reporting, controls, and processes.
Additional Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in process improvement initiatives to streamline reporting and reduce cycle time.
- Document financial policies, procedures, and assumptions used in models and reports.
- Participate in system and tool upgrades, including testing and validation of finance-related functionality.
- Support monthly reconciliation and review of vendor-related financial transactions as needed.
- Help prepare materials for external audits or internal reviews when requested.
- Support periodic finance-driven business reviews and cross-functional planning workshops.
Expected Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Commerce, or a related field.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, corporate finance, or accounting.
- Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience with financial reporting tools and ERP systems familiarity with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools is advantageous.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with experience preparing materials for leadership.
- Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment and collaborate across teams.
- Able to work 2:30pm -11:30pm IST
