Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

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Role - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

Location - Bangalore

We are looking for forward-thinking, goal-oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in building and improving processes that will allow the company to scale with growth. This role primary responsibilities will be in expense and headcount management, month-end/quarter-end management reporting with stakeholders globally, partnering across F&S, Finance Data Office, and Controllership.

Job Responsibilities

• ​Build, maintain and update financial models to support key business decisions

• Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting

• Conduct basic variance analysis for month-end and quarter-end financial close.

• Analyse historical and current financial data for trends, run-rates, opportunities and risks

• Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather data for insights and accuracy

• Support monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting process by working across stakeholders.

• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve existing financial processes, reporting and data collection methods.

• Leverage across software, platforms and tools to simplify and automate current reporting and tasks.

• Document financial procedures and best practices to ensure consistency and knowledge transfer.

Required Experience/Skills
Technical Skills:

• 2 to 5 years of post-qualification experience in an FP&A, Finance & Strategy, Accounting function of a multinational entity.

• Strong skills in MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview and Google Suite. Experience with SQL and snowflake a plus.

• Data extraction, analysis and presentation; Tableau or other data visualisation a plus.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Track record of successful and quantifiable process improvement projects.

Non-Technical Skills:

• Thrives in an environment of collaboration/teamwork but is also a self-starter, requiring limited guidance

• Get it Done attitude

• Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity

• Ability to establish and manage stakeholder relationships

• Clear, concise and professional communications – written & verbal; interpersonal skills

• Emotional Intelligence, empathetic mindset and humility to create space for learning

• Sharp attention to details

• Strong desire to process improve and drive efficiencies

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