CRC Strategy & Operations Senior Analyst

Overview

Support the operational management, functional planning and reporting cadence of WPP's Cyber, Risk & Compliance (CRC) function, providing analysis, coordination and high-quality materials for budgeting, procurement, investment proposals, committee presentations and leadership reporting.

What you'll do

• Support CRC functional budgeting activity, including budget inputs, in-year tracking, forecast updates, cost commentary and preparation of budget review materials.
• Maintain organised views of CRC spend, vendors, purchase requests, investment proposals, approvals, risks, opportunities and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate with Finance and Procurement partners to support purchase requests, renewals, investment cases, contract tracking, vendor analysis and cost optimisation activity.
• Assist with the development of CRC investment proposals and business cases, including problem statements, benefits, risks, cost summaries, decision points and approval materials.
• Prepare high-quality committee presentations, leadership updates, board or audit committee inputs and other executive reporting materials as required.
• Support the CRC reporting cadence, including gathering updates, validating inputs, maintaining action trackers and converting operational detail into concise management insight.
• Help maintain CRC functional plans, OKRs or delivery summaries, ensuring key priorities, dependencies, risks and decisions are captured and easy to track.
• Produce analysis and visual summaries covering finance, procurement, programme status, recruitment, vendor activity, operational metrics and functional performance.
• Support governance meetings by preparing agendas, pre-read materials, minutes, actions, decision logs and follow-up tracking.
• Use automation, AI-enabled productivity tools, reporting templates and dashboards to reduce manual effort and improve the consistency, speed and quality of CRC operations reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of CRC operating processes, documentation standards, reporting products and stakeholder communications.

What you'll need

• Experience in business operations, strategy support, finance coordination, procurement support, programme reporting, PMO, technology operations or a related analytical role.
• Strong analytical capability with confidence working with budgets, cost data, vendor information, trackers, reporting inputs and management information.
• Excellent PowerPoint and written communication skills, with the ability to create clear, concise and professional executive materials.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with structured data, reconciliations, status tracking and financial or operational summaries.
• Good organisational skills, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines across recurring reporting cycles.
• Commercial awareness and willingness to develop understanding of functional budgeting, procurement, investment approvals and benefits tracking.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including working with Finance, Procurement, delivery teams, CRC leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate operational detail into concise insight, highlighting issues, decisions required, risks, opportunities and next steps.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint and PowerPoint; exposure to Power BI, ServiceNow, Wrike or similar reporting/workflow tools.
• Curiosity about automation, AI-enabled analysis and ways to simplify recurring reporting, financial tracking and committee preparation.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week.
• Reporting to the CRC Operations & Reporting Lead.