Associate Manager - Finance

The finance analyst is responsible for tracking, forecasting, and budgeting costs. They act as a financial steward for department leaders, ensuring business operations are highly cost-efficient and aligned with budget limits along with other key financial planning responsibilities

• Provide overall support for the period end results and preparation of forecast
• Create, update, prepare ongoing periodic business reports
• Working across multiple Finance functions to deliver Period forecast
• Understand key drivers of the P&L
• Work on key region/customer initiatives to drive business and region performance
• Performance analysis, including explanation of variance to plan, forecast and year ago
• Support  the annual operating plan (AOP) process
• Maintain complex Excel models

• 4 to 7 years of experience in finance, reporting, forecasting and planning for postgraduates (commerce, accounting, finance)
  (3 to 5 years of finance experience for Chartered accounts preferred)
• Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, Business Objects, Essbase,  P&L understanding, trade promotions, reporting & analytics.
• In depth functional knowledge with a key focus on budgeting, variance analysis, cost control, and drives automation in processes
• Mosaic, Cockpit /Tableau knowledge
• Strong excel skills.