Strategic purpose of the position
Budgeting and Estimates: Preparation of budgets and rolling forecasts while aligning with different business functions.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Planning (Long term business plans)
- Reporting: Preparation of monthly flash deck reports for regional reporting.
- Performance Analysis: Evaluating financial performance against budgets & forecasts and providing actionable recommendations to management.
- Decision Support: Offering data-driven insights and financial modeling to assist leaders in making informed business decisions, such as investments, pricing, or cost optimization initiatives.
- Development of insightful dashboards for internal stakeholders to support decision-making.
- Scenario Planning: Preparing financial scenarios and what-if analyses to assess the impact of potential strategies.
- Cash flow forecasting: Detailed forecasting of working capital in alignment with operational teams to improve forecast accuracy of cash.
- Business Cases: Preparation of business case for any new product launch/capex proposal.
- Automation: Driving automation initiatives within FP&A processes to bring efficiency, improve decision making and increase collaboration.
Qualifications
- Education: CA with > 6 years of PQE or MBA finance from a premium institute with excellent academic record. Articleship from big 4 preferred for CA candidates.
- Experience: > 6 years experience with large corporates preferable in alcobev or FMCG industries. Should be currently handling FP&A profiles for more than 2 years.
Required Skills
- Analytical, Presentation skills and sharp decision-making skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with internal and external customers.
- Proficient in Excel, Power Point and ERP (preferred Navision) and Hyperion
Preferred Skills
- High preference for experience in Power BI, Macros, automation, planning tool like Anaplan etc.
