Finance Analyst

Overview

Support the ISP Group FP&A team with planning, forecasting, management reporting and data preparation, maintaining key data structures and insights in Oracle PBCS, Excel, Power BI and presentations, with full data reconciliation and integrity.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of PBCS, including metadata, data integrity, regular updates and maintenance, working with 3rd party system support.
• Manage key PBCS processes, including data loads, hierarchy updates and reconciliations.
• Work with PBCS (and potentially NetSuite) to extract, structure and analyse financial data.
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline financial processes and enhance reporting and data collection efficiency.
• Support month-end close activities, rolling over Excel and PPT templates and updating them for new requirements.
• Update templates for the latest financials within pre-agreed deadlines.
• Prepare insightful variance analysis to drive understanding of the drivers of variances, in collaboration with the Group FP&A managers.
• Proactively identify and suggest improvements and automation opportunities.
• Ensure high levels of data accuracy, integrity and consistency across templates and data sources.
• Present financial data and insights clearly and concisely to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Support budget and forecast preparation (P&L and Capex), ensuring templates are updated within agreed deadlines, datapoints are fully reconciled, and the PBCS reflection of the budget is accurate and complete.
• Prepare insightful budget and forecast analyses to enhance understanding and quality of budgets and forecasts, and support related presentations.
• Act as the main Group FP&A contact for one or more Regions and an effective Finance Business Partner for them.
• Support Group elements of Regional month-end close and analysis, and review Regional financials to ensure accuracy and identify financial improvement opportunities.

What you'll need

• University degree.
• Accounting qualification: ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent.
• 4+ years of post-qualified experience.
• FP&A experience: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, data.
• Hands-on experience in Oracle systems: PBCS or HFM (Hyperion).
• Advanced Excel: complex formulas, pivot tables, Power Query.
• Knowledge of AI tools (Copilot, Claude or similar).
• Data extraction, structuring and preparation.
• Strong analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills.
• Effectiveness and clarity of communication with stakeholders.
• Fluency in English.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with data cubes, related data structures and metadata hierarchies (ideally PBCS or Hyperion-HFM).
• Experience in NetSuite or Fusion.
• VBA.
• Power BI knowledge (highly desirable).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Reports to the Group Head of FP&A, based in London.
• No line management responsibilities.
• Subject to vetting procedures including an online due diligence search, references and criminal background checks covering the previous 10 years' employment history.