Line of Service
Internal Firm Services
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Operations
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career within Operations, will provide the opportunity to support our engagement teams and clients operationally by providing advice on accounting, financial reporting, and strategic business issues. In joining, you’ll help ensure a complete and relevant exchange of information among our consultants and in turn with engagement teams and clients, provide experts advice on a variety of specific topics, support engagement teams in resolving complex issues, and supporting clients and their subsidiaries in evaluating the potential impact of accounting and reporting standard setting initiatives. You’ll develop strong relationships with our engagement teams and enhance our ability to meet greater investor expectations with the challenges of an increasingly complex business environment.
As a part of our team, you’ll help assist engagement teams in the areas of resource management, learning and development, human capital, reporting, technology and innovation, and quality and compliance.
Reporting Relationship
Business Partnering
Position
The professional is entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring timely, accurate reports and analysis on multiple aspects to help the FP&A team provide qualitative inputs to the CFO that can help in driving business and operational decisions for the firm. This is a high value-add role where the individual would be required to work independently and deliver within stringent timelines while at the same time ensuring no compromise with data accuracy.
Accurate Leadership Reporting
- Preparation of Indian reporting ensuring accuracy along with highlighting additional trends or observations to be included as qualitative inputs in the deck
- Reviewing overall revenue and other financials to identify discrepancies, if any and get the same rectified
- Proactively preparing monthly overheads analysis/details before releasing the P&L to business teams and ensuring all details/schedules are available for leadership decision making
- Handling any form of exceptions during month ends (provisions, adjustments etc.) to ensure timely and accurate month end reportings.
- Execute reconciliation between MIS books and Statutory books
- Being comfortable with reported details by monitoring any wrong booking of GL entries like wrong Cost Centre, GL, Location etc. and getting it rectified from AP, GL and other relevant teams.
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
- Working as business partner to teams to consolidate budgets along with appropriate back-ups and highlighting the need for the same, if not available
- Track and maintain any changes to the budgets and forecast to ensure the latest version is available for management review at all times
- Trend Analysis of budget at the time of initiating budgeting exercise to ensure better understanding of input submission which can drive more qualitative analysis
- Preparing and analyzing key KPIs of LoS/SBU to ensure full understanding and visibility at the time of budget submission to ensure better understanding of input submission which can drive more qualitative analysis.
Business Value-Addition
- Identify key focus areas and provide relevant analysis for metrics such as Working Capital, Revenue etc.
- Carry out extensive analysis on Partner KPIs and highlight any trends or observations on platforms of senior leadership reporting
Process Improvement
- Maintaining repository of past year trends of key metrics and KPIs
- Work with e-Finance & Innovation team in implementing business intelligence tool and dashboard reports
- Proactively participate in process improvement measures for Finance
- Automation of Monthly operating results (MOR) submitted to Global along with Quarterly investment reports
- Developing exception reporting, predictive modelling and scenario analysis
- Developing a robust budget application to take inputs from business with version control, user friendly with India IT
- Development, maintenance and automation of the Partner KPI dashboard
- Analysing headcount/FTE and pyramids vis-a-vis budgets and reporting exceptions
- Preparing a log of issues with operations team and sharing with them on a monthly basis to bring efficiencies in finance team
- Updating SOPs and manuals to ensure the latest version is communicated to any new joiner
- File restructuring and process optimization in BAU reports
Team Coaching and Empowerment
- Chalking out a training plan for self and discussing training needs with the manager
- Enable all team members to settle in and be conceptually clear with major concepts
- Contributing in creation of a high performing Team
- Contributing to improve the culture and image
- Enabling team mates to deliver regular BAU activities by providing them support, as and when needed
Leadership and Stakeholder Management
- Building & maintaining effective working relationship with leaders, stakeholders and team members
- Maintaining and building relationships with other Finance process teams to ensure end to end process efficiency achieved
Mandatory Skill Set-FP&A; Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting;Accurate Leadership Reporting;Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Preferred Skill Set-FP&A; Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting;Accurate Leadership Reporting;Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Year of experience required-11+ years
Qualifications-CA/PG
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Finance
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Government Clearance Required?
Job Posting End Date
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