FP&A, Director

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Job Overview:

The Director of Corporate FP&A is a critical role within our finance team. This leader will be tasked with building and leading an FP&A organization in India, serving as a strategic partner to the corporate as well as the regional team. They will establish efficient planning & analysis, forecasting, and reporting processes that adapt to our company's growth.

In the FP&A realm, covering both all business segments, this role will drive strategic decision-making through comprehensive analysis of results and forecasts. This is pivotal in optimizing resource allocation amongst Marketing, Product, and Tech departments, and maintaining a balance between our rapid growth ambitions and operational improvements.

On the Corporate Finance side, this position would assist the Corporate Finance team with financial reporting (including dashboarding and analytics) along with  Annual Planning process and monthly forecasts. Additionally, they will partner with other operational teams to handle aspects that have a significant impact on our financial outlook.

This comprehensive role includes preparing executive presentations, providing strategic advice, and contributing to cross-departmental collaborations to create annual operating plans, develop reliable forecasts, and define and measure key metrics. The role also supports financial review meetings and other ad hoc projects.

As the Director of Corporate Finance, this professional plays a significant role in our company's sustained growth, contributing to financial strategy, process optimization, operational performance, and decision-making within the organization

Responsibilities:

• Build team to support planning and analysis workstream for Corporate and FP&A functions
• Collaborate with Corporate, FP&A and accounting teams to support plan, forecast, analysis and close processes
• Partner with data and  analytics on dashboards and delivering results. Transition segment FP&A infrastructure to IBM Planning system 
• Be a strategic partner and become a key advisor to the regional leadership team, focusing on growth opportunities, expense control, profitability of the business and executing against OKRs
• You will have hands-on involvement in  developing annual operating plans, quarterly and monthly financial forecasts, and ongoing analysis of actuals versus prior periods, plan and/or forecasts
•  You will prepare management reporting / dashboards for Executives - analyze results, distill/synthesize business performance indicators, assess business risk and operating performance, and timely communicate risks and opportunities to management

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics or other relevant quantitative field
• 10+ years in FP&A role; business to consumer and/or enterprise experience in technology required
• Track record of leading teams  for Revenue and P&L related planning and analysis 
• Experience in Financial modeling, understand US GAAP revenue recognition standards
• Direct experience with Gsheet/ Excel, NetSuite, Planning Systems like IBM TM1/Oracle Essbase, Looker

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with international organizations
• Experience with IBM analytics, Looker, Workday, NetSuite, (a plus)
• Proven experience with finance transformation, process re-engineering and improvements
• Ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization and thrive in a highly collaborative, high-growth  environment
• Advanced Gsheet/Excel skills with the ability to create and operate complex financial models and automated reporting
• Proven experience working with large volumes of data 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively and communicate with all levels of the company
• Experience with international organizations/consumer/ enterprise SAAS business, user of IBM analytics, Looker, Workday, (a plus)

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Business and Financial Modeling Specialization
• Data Analysis & Presentation Skills
• Business Statistics and Analysis
• Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization

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