Finance Business Partner

**Job Title**: Finance Business Partner

**Location**: India, Bangalore

**Job Type**: Full time

**Job Overview**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Month-End Close Process**:

- Ensure timely and accurate completion of month-end reporting and closing procedures.

**Business Partnering**:

- Prepare and present monthly financial updates to key stakeholders, providing insights on financial performance and trends.
- Perform financial analysis, including variance and trend analysis, to support business decisions.
- Collaborate with GBS teams to develop accurate forecasting models and provide input into the budget for GBS operations.

**Site Management & New Site Setup**:

- Serve as the point of contact (POC) for GBS Site Lead and provide financial reporting support.
- Play a key role in the planning and establishment of new GBS sites, ensuring financial structures are set up effectively for smooth operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure proper site setup in terms of financial processes, systems, and controls.
- Manage local project management activities to implement policies, procedures, and controls aligned with the GBS model.
- Oversee site-related financial functions, including vendor, utilities, and real estate management.

**Reporting & Closing**:

- Prepare flash reports and ensure accurate reporting of financial performance.
- Compile and report on legal package requirements to meet regulatory and compliance standards.

**Treasury**:

- Monitor cash flow and assist with Treasury operations, including preparing and reporting on monthly Treasury Information Package (TIP).

**Data Modeling & Business Case Support**:

- Lead the development and maintenance of financial models to analyze and forecast various business scenarios.
- Support the creation of business cases for strategic projects, ensuring robust financial analysis and data-backed insights.
- Utilize data modeling techniques to assess investment opportunities, project profitability, and financial impacts, ensuring informed decision-making for senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure data integrity and that models reflect the most up-to-date business assumptions.

**Strategic Collaboration and Leadership**:

- Collaborate with senior leadership to address and resolve high-impact business and technical issues.
- Provide strategic financial insights and recommendations that contribute to organizational innovation and long-term business success.
- Support senior management in making informed decisions with far-reaching implications, ensuring alignment with overall corporate goals and growth.
- Work with cross-functional teams to understand complex business and technical needs, translating them into clear financial objectives and actionable plans.
- Translate complex business and technical needs into clear objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals spanning 3 to 5 years.
- Provide thought leadership and introduce fresh ideas for continuous improvement in financial operations and decision-making.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in Accountancy, Economics, Finance with 10-12 years of experience;
- Extensive experience in Finance Controllership including FP&A, Internal Controls and
- Operations preferably in the BPO/Shared Services Industry
- Experience in implementing/improving financial systems/tools
- External audit background a definite plus
- Proficient in accounting standards
- Proficient in SAP system and other accounting and data management tools
- Technically competent with strong analytical skills and attention to details, without losing sight of the big picture
- Strong in problem solving and planning/prioritization
- Strong business acumen to be an effective finance business partner to key stakeholders
- Strong people leadership and interpersonal skills
- Communicates well (both oral/written) with all levels. Ability to be persuasive and diplomatic, yet firm when needed
- Committed, resilient, proactive, can-do attitude and high learning agility
- Global perspective with cultural sensitivity
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and power point presentations
- Demonstrated capability in people management

**Critical Skills**:

- Attention to Detail - Able to be alert in a high-risk environment; follow detailed procedures and ensure accuracy in documentation and data; carefully monitor gauges, instruments, or processes; concentrate on routine work details and organize and maintain a system of records.
- Customer Focus - Able to demonstrate a high level of service delivery; do what is necessary to ensure customer satisfaction; deal with service failures and prioritize customer needs.
- Policies, Process, & Procedures - Able to act in accordance with established guidelines; follow standard procedures in crisis situations; communicate and enforce organizational policies and procedures; recognize and constructively conform to unwritten rules or practices.
- Planning, Prioritizing, & Goal