Business Operations Manager

Overview

Business Operations Manager supporting DPTF with consolidated operational and financial reporting, business planning and financial control across the function.

What you'll do

• Consolidate operational and financial reporting for DPTF, producing an accurate and current view of spend, forecast and operational health for leadership.
• Run the monthly and quarterly financial cycles for the function, including forecast collection, variance analysis and period end reporting, to the enterprise finance timetable.
• Coordinate the business planning cycle and operating rhythm, preparing materials, scheduling sessions and following actions through to closure.
• Support budget management, tracking commitments, accruals and purchase activity against plan and flagging where the position is moving.
• Collect and quality assure financial and operational inputs from the federated Tech Finance Managers and domain teams, following up on gaps and inconsistencies.
• Produce cost transparency and establishment reporting, including unit cost, vendor and contractor spend and the funded position against actual headcount, at the level of detail leadership and domain teams need.
• Support financial control and compliance activity, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit requests.
• Identify and deliver process automation and optimisation opportunities across business operations, reducing manual effort in recurring cycles.
• Provide operational insight to senior leadership teams, highlighting trends, variances and issues with supporting analysis.
• Partner with Finance and with the Investment & Portfolio Manager so that financial reporting and portfolio reporting reconcile.
• Maintain the business operations tooling, templates and data so that reporting is repeatable and does not depend on individual effort.
• Use AI and analytics to accelerate consolidation, variance analysis and management reporting.

What you'll need

• Overall 15+ years of experience, typically 6-8 years in technology finance, business operations, financial analysis or management reporting roles.
• Experience running monthly and quarterly financial cycles to an external finance timetable.
• Experience consolidating financial and operational data from multiple teams into a single reliable view.
• Experience producing cost transparency reporting, including vendor, contractor and unit cost views.
• Experience supporting budget management, including commitments, accruals and purchase tracking.
• Experience identifying and delivering automation or simplification of recurring reporting processes.
• Familiarity with financial and reporting systems and with AI enabled analytics applied to consolidation and variance analysis.
• Strong analytical and financial literacy, able to consolidate and interrogate large volumes of financial and operational data.
• High attention to detail and discipline in data quality, since leadership decisions rest on the reporting.
• Clear communication skills, able to explain financial information to audiences without a finance background.
• Well organised, able to deliver recurring cycles reliably to a fixed external timetable.
• Proactive approach to automating and simplifying repetitive work.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.