Assistant Manager - Planning & Reporting

The candidate will be a member of Americas RCoE team working for the Americas’ Client Reporting team and would be responsible to support on key deliverables in relation to regional & market client reporting, prepare reports, working in collaboration with various teams like the Clients Finance Team & Commercial team, Regional Finance & Group Finance team.
This position necessitates the candidate's availability during US hours (5:00 PM IST to 1:00 AM IST) for 7-8 working days per month. For the remaining days, the candidate will follow UK hours (1:00 PM to 9:00 PM IST). Flexibility to adjust work timings according to business requirements is essential.

Job Description:

Key Accountabilities

• Has prior experience in analytics /FP&A and has a good experience in handling and working on big data sets.
• Well-versed in all MS Excel functionalities, with the ability to link, review, manage, and cross-verify data from multiple & large excel databases.
• Assist in preparing periodic reporting packs submission and review of the same including performance dashboards & presentations. The candidate must be able to explain & comment on the variances and high level business movements.
• Review & consolidate client inputs received from various brand / markets within the America’s region. The reporting would be excel based data and publishing reporting via PowerPoint.
• Partner with finance & commercial teams to drive analytics, compliance, quality, and timeliness in all the reporting and analysis requirements.
• Cross validate the data from BPC/SAC to ensure accuracy and conformity of the numbers inputs received from multiple input sources.
• Prepare, circulate, monitor & maintain the client level inputs templates from various brands across the region.
• Partner with Client Finance teams to drive review of quality and timeliness in month-end/Budget/Forecast submission of Client Reporting & Client Profitability process.
• Prepare monthly key reports and ensure timely & error-free delivery of reports to various stakeholders.
• Support in managing various process deliverables as per agreed SLAs along with ensuring delivery of quality results to key stakeholders including dashboards, KPI reports and other key process metrics.
• Interact with various stakeholders to understand on Adhoc reporting requirements, set expectations, address concerns and discuss them with Reporting Manager.
• Identify automation requirements and collaborate with CI team to help deliver automation solutions.
• Responsible for maintaining process documentation.
• Should be able to multitask between deliverables and day to day activities.
• Provide weekly and ad hoc timesheet query reporting out of the Samuri / UMS database.

Skills and Experience

• B.Com/M.Com/MBA with a minimum of 7-10 years of experience in handling Client reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) & Reporting.
• The person is required to coordinate with various stakeholder across geographies and should be very good in communication & interpersonal skills.
• Advance skill in Microsoft Excel is must (complex formulas, advanced data analysis tools (Power Query, Power Pivot), macros and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), advanced charting and data visualization techniques, and data modeling and scenario analysis)
• Proficient English speaker.
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail to ensure the publication of error-free work.
• Should be a quick learner and out-of-box thinker.
• Strong understanding of financial metrics and business structure.
• Should demonstrate high level of responsibility and commitment to the assigned activities.
• Agile and flexible on changing Adhoc requirements.
• Previous exposure to SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) & PwBi will be an added advantage.

Location:

Bangalore

Brand:

Bcoe

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent