FP&A Manager

Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Operations

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You’ll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.

Our Financial Analysis and Reporting team is responsible for managing PwC’s financial risk through financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and tactical consulting. As part of the team, you’ll help with budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting, shared services and financing.

Reporting Relationship

Business Partnering

Position

Manager

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 sets- Financial Planning and Analysis, Budgeting, Variance Analysis, Forecasting Planning  
Preferred skill sets-  Finance    
Year of experience required- 8   
Qualifications- PG/CA
 

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

Budgeting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Forecasting Planning, Variance Analysis

Optional Skills

Finance

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date