Head Financial Planning & Analysis

Role & responsibilities

• Lead a team of FP&A, drive financial performance, identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
• Leading discussion for detailed business financial. (AOP/Forecast/Actuals), Quarterly rolling forecast, Long range planning.
• Supports strategy development and business decision making with financial analysis. Recommend action plan in line with the analysis.
• Drive analysis of business performance: sales, margin and costs. Conduct reviews and provide actions for cost optimization with special focus and analysis for corporate vertical.
• Assesses business opportunities and risks, predicts trends, estimates profitability and growth areas, provides creative solutions, manages costs and allocates resources to add value and manage the portfolio.
• Responsible for preparation and review of monthly, quarterly & yearly P&L, B/s & cashflow parameters for the group.
• The candidiate must ensure proper issuance and accuracy of all financial information on timely basis. Circulation of analytical reports along with variance analysis to stakeholders.
• Conduct Monthly business review meetings with the functional Heads & Business Heads, resolve all business queries relating to the financials shared.
• Ensuring all business queries related to financials shared are resolved before the monthly financials review.
• Support Head of Finance to provide management and other departments with information for decision making in their respective scope of operations
• Support the financial operations of all related business units within the company.
• Provide targeted strategic insights based on analysis of operational performance, industry dynamics, macro-economic trends and the competitor landscape.
• Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Become the interface or translator between finance and operations and support senior leadership team in managing and achieving the financial targets and objectives.
• Should be result-oriented and can draw on big and small data, selecting the appropriate tools to manipulate, analyse and interpret it in sophisticated, audience-appropriate ways.
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams.
• Provide targeted strategic insights based on analysis of operational performance, industry dynamics, macro-economic trends and the competitor landscape.
• Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.
• Become the interface or translator between finance and operations and support senior leadership team in managing and achieving the financial targets and objectives.
• Should be result-oriented and can draw on big and small data, selecting the appropriate tools to manipulate, analyse and interpret it in sophisticated, audience-appropriate ways.
• Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams.
• The candidate would be responsible for process improvement, setting up SOPs & reducing TATs.

Preferred candidate profile

Education : CA/CFA/MBA

Experience : Candidate with experience in FP&A domain. Candidate from Media Company or consultancy preferred.