Lead Financial Planning and Analysis

Position Title: Lead, FP&A
Location: Mohali
Position Type: Regular, Full-time

The FP&A Lead will be responsible for directing and organizing the financial planning and analysis process across the company, including the preparation, reporting, variance analysis
of the departmental budgets, forecasts, and key financial metrics. You will provide insights
and sound business advice to the finance leadership and executive management teams on
best practices, business trends, and investment opportunities.
This position will be the key point of contact for FP&A on their monthly forecast and annual
budget process. You will lead and conduct special projects involving financial analysis and
research of business issues to provide senior management with financial data and business
advice to support resource allocation decisions and objectives for corporate growth and
profitability.
This is a key position, which will report into the Head of FP&A and work closely with the senior
management including the CEO, Business unit heads, and other key stakeholders.

What you'll do:

• Be a valued business partner and trusted advisor to senior management to provide highly complex financial and technical analysis and recommendations regarding current and proposed business opportunities, and/or internal measurements and methodologies
• Direct FP&A for all components of corporate financials including revenue, operating
  expenses, working capital, capital expenditures and cash flow
• Leading company-wide strategic planning, budget, and quarterly target-setting
  processes, including monthly forecasts and key performance monitoring
• Coordinating budget reviews, and corporate budget consolidation
• Key driver for development of strategic and operational plans, annual budgeting, process, financial forecasting, business support and reporting
• Develop and institutionalize financial models, analyses, key business metrics that serves as a tool to drive profitable business growth, efficiency and improvement
• Identify, assess, value and prioritize current and emerging product portfolio and other business initiatives, through regressive financial analysis and business cases
• Providing analytical perspectives and executive financial summaries to important strategic decisions, including M&A activities and significant capital investments
• Tracking sales pipeline closely to bring about more accurate revenue forecast and operational expenditure requirements
• Preparing periodic detailed reports with analytics. Ensure that financial reporting of the business performance is accurate and timely
• Interface with senior leadership regarding financial results, forecasts, planning
  assumptions and other projects

Who were looking for:

• BS degree in Accounting, Finance or relevant. Additional qualification of CA Inter
  would be preferred
• Should have 10 -15 years of experience in the Finance Department of a reputed
  organization
• Must be excellent at crunching numbers & able to understand the impact of any
  transaction in numbers terms
• Excellent functional knowledge of accounting systems, processes, fund flow
  management, statutory compliances, taxation, MIS reporting to senior management
• Must have good oral and in writing communication skills