Role Overview:
The FP&A Lead will drive the company's financial planning, analysis, and decision-support initiatives across business verticals. This role will be central to building a scalable business finance function encompassing budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking, and real-time insights to enable leadership decision-making. The ideal candidate is hands-on, data-driven, and comfortable working in a high-growth, multi-BU environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning & Budgeting
- Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process for the company and business units.
- Partner with business and functional heads to prepare realistic financial projections and identify key drivers of growth and profitability.
- Support long-range financial planning in alignment with company goals and strategic priorities.
Business Finance & Decision Support:
- Act as a business partner to BU heads, providing analytical insights, variance analysis, and recommendations to improve P&L performance.
- Create and manage business dashboards that enable real-time visibility into key metrics and decision-making.
- Drive accountability through financial discipline, performance monitoring, and actionable insights.
Financial Modelling & Analysis
- Build and maintain robust financial models covering revenue, costs, cash flow, and scenario analysis.
- Support board presentations, investor decks, and management reviews with detailed yet insightful analysis.
- Ensure alignment between accounting, business finance, and FP&A views to maintain one source of truth.
Leadership & Process Excellence:
- Set up and strengthen FP&A processes, policies, and governance structures.
- Mentor and lead a small team to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial outputs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, supply chain, and strategy teams to translate numbers into business actions.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Minimum 58 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, or related finance roles.
- Proven exposure to multi-BU environments and scaling organisations (preferably in high-growth tech, EV, or service sectors).
- Strong understanding of budgeting, P&L ownership, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to build dashboards and automate reporting for business impact.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; working knowledge of SQL / database querying will be an added advantage.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience presenting to CXOs / board-level stakeholders.
Personality Traits:
- High ownership and bias for action.
- Data-driven and detail-oriented mindset.
- Ability to balance analytical depth with business practicality.
- Collaborative yet assertive in decision-making.
- Comfort in ambiguity and ability to build from scratch.
Education:
- CA / MBA (Finance) / CFA preferred.
