Accordion - Formerly Merilytics - Director - Financial Planning & Analysis - Analytics & Consulting Domain - IIM/ISB/FMS/IIFT/IIT/ICAI (4-7 yrs)

Accordion(Formerly Merilytics) - Director - Financial Planning & Analysis - Analytics & Consulting - IIM/ISB/FMS/IIFT/IIT/ICAI

Company Overview:

Accordion (Formerly Merilytics) works at the intersection of sponsors and management teams throughout every stage of the investment lifecycle, providing hands-on, execution-focused support to elevate data and analytics capabilities. So, what does it mean to work at Accordion? It means joining 1,000+ analytics, data science, finance & technology experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment while transforming how portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion's future-by embracing a culture rooted in collaboration and a firm-wide commitment to building something great, together.

Headquartered in New York City with 10 offices worldwide, Accordion invites you to join our journey.

Data & Analytics (Accordion | Data & Analytics)

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team delivers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

D&A team delivers data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

What You will do:

- Build and foster client relationships with senior stakeholders (C Suite/C-1 level executives) by effectively partnering with them through insights driven discussions on the engagement.

- Ensure that project governance is in place from internal and external compliance perspective to enhance leadership visibility into the engagement's progress.

- Manage and contribute to analytical and financial planning projects with senior stakeholders from Private Equity Funds and CFO offices of clients across the world.

- Design and manage development of financial models to drive key strategic investment and business transformation decisions of the clients.

- Drive the budgeting, planning, and forecasting process by collaborating with senior stakeholders from Finance and Technology functions of the clients.

- Manage solutions for cash flow forecasting, working capital management, P&L reporting, and monthly operating review for clients.

- Leverage relevant industry specific knowledge to tailor the financial planning and analysis solutions.

- Guide necessary data management and process automation to deliver financial reporting solutions.

- Manage the accounting processes, trial balance adjustment, and preparation of financial statements to support financial analysis wherever necessary.

Ideally, you have :

- Should have CA or MBA in Finance from Tier-I institutions.

- Should have minimum of 4 years' of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis functions covering budgeting, planning, management reporting and analysis.

- Should have experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams and with CFOs of companies.

- Should be able to use business judgement and a structured approach towards solving complex analytical problems.

- CFA and exposure to U.S. GAAP is a plus.

Why Explore a Career at Accordion:

- High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility

- Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

- Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

- Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

Other benefits for full time employees:

- Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor's consultations, counsellors, etc

- Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits

- Work dinners, team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations

- Reimbursement support for travel to office, as and when promulgated by the Company.

- Cab reimbursement for women employees beyond a certain time of the day

- Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.

- Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.

- A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.