Financial Plan & Analysis Manager

Overview

Lead the global FP&A delivery for a multinational Logistics & Freight client as FP&A Lead on the Aurora account, managing a 50-60 FTE team with 5-6 direct reports.

What you'll do

• Lead a 50-60 FTE FP&A team delivering standard and ad hoc management reports by region, country, product and service.
• Own the Annual Operating Plan, budgets, forecasts and variance analysis across Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow.
• Ensure timely, accurate reporting of SG&A, Working Capital, Cost of Sales and other management reports.
• Partner with senior client stakeholders to understand strategic goals and explain results through insight-led storytelling.
• Act as FP&A subject matter expert and focal point for business units and Technology, including key project initiatives.
• Work with Engagement Partners to align information delivery and service levels with business priorities.
• Provide systems support and data governance, and create and manage reporting data from multiple database systems.
• Lead, coach and mentor the team; run objectives, performance management and regular one-on-one feedback.
• Reduce single points of failure and act on staff and customer satisfaction feedback.
• Identify risks proactively, set operational controls and support audit and SOX requirements.
• Embed common, simplified, documented processes to cut training time and improve efficiency.
• Define, review and meet SLAs; measure, monitor and report performance.
• Manage client communication, resolve queries, investigate anomalies and own issues to closure.
• Build quality control processes to identify and fix data issues and drive consistency in reporting.
• Lead end-to-end change management using project management disciplines, including resource impact estimates for project changes.
• Manage vendor relationships so application platforms meet service needs, and plan and manage area budgets.
• Build team capability across technical and business areas and foster trust and integration with Finance and other teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation, and deliver end user training where required.

What you'll need

• Chartered Accountant or Master of Business Administration.
• 13 to 18 years of experience.
• Strong FP&A experience in Logistics & Freight, covering planning, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis of revenue, working capital, gross margin, SG&A and pricing, plus predictive reporting.
• Must have led a global FP&A engagement for a multinational client.
• Ability to coach large teams, manage senior client stakeholders, set controls and resolve complex issues independently.
• Flexibility to work across shifts for global operations and travel abroad when required.
• Expert in budgeting, forecasting, revenue, cost and margin analysis and management reporting.
• Expert in financial reporting systems, Oracle EPM and tools like OneStream or Longview, plus advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
• Strong people leadership, client relationship management, storytelling-led communication and presentation, analytical reasoning and project management.
• Results driven under tight deadlines.
• Hands-on experience in database development and report creation and in business intelligence reporting that combines financial and management information from multiple systems and platforms.

Nice to have

• CA, MBA, CFA or CMA.
• Exposure to Oracle ERP, Oracle Webcenter, More4Apps, Accelya, Concur, Blackline, Icertis, Power Automate, RPA, MIGS, SUPPLY, WIMS, Injury Connect, CRCM, ARMS, iHub, Zeus and Power BI.
• Exposure to SOX compliance, finance process simplification and automation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Details

• Location: Gurugram.
• Global shifts and occasional travel apply.