FP&A Manager

Overview

Own financial planning, appraisal, forecasting and performance management, acting as a strategic finance partner who turns business drivers and risks into decision-ready insight.

What you'll do

• Own and coordinate planning, latest estimate and appraisal processes, keeping assumptions, financial outcomes and business drivers transparent, consistent and aligned with strategy.
• Monitor financial and operational performance against targets and benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support timely interventions.
• Apply value and risk lenses to investment, portfolio, commercial and operational decisions.
• Leverage automated analytics dashboards to turn data, trends and scenarios into options and decision-ready recommendations.
• Ensure planning, reporting and appraisal activities comply with governance, control, assurance and financial reporting requirements.
• Build trusted relationships with business leaders, finance colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Champion automation, self-service reporting, driver-based modelling, scenario planning and predictive analytics.
• Coach and develop team members and build future-ready FP&A capabilities.
• Drive simplification, automation, digitisation and process improvement across planning and appraisal activities.
• Review and interpret outputs from AI-enabled tools, ensuring insights are grounded in robust assumptions, data integrity and disciplined AI risk management.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in financial planning, appraisal, performance management, business finance or related finance roles.
• Proven track record of partnering with senior business stakeholders to influence decisions and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, value drivers, planning cycles, forecasting, business case development and performance reporting.
• Experience leading teams or influencing cross-functional delivery through matrixed ways of working.
• Business partnering and commercial acumen to understand value drivers, business models, market dynamics and operational levers.
• Financial performance management capability in KPI design, target setting, variance analysis, forecasting, performance appraisal and intervention planning.
• Planning and financial decision-making ability to translate strategy into financial targets and link plans to milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Financial modelling and scenario analysis experience, including driver-based modelling, sensitivity and scenario analysis, and investment appraisal.
• Data analytics and insights ability to validate, analyse and interpret data and generate insights that improve decision quality.
• Data management and digital acumen, including understanding of data quality, governance, reporting automation, dashboarding and analytics tools, with ability to work with AI.
• Storytelling and strategic executive communication to convert complex analysis into clear, concise recommendations and decision asks.
• Process excellence and continuous improvement ability while maintaining governance, control and operational discipline.
• Stakeholder management and influencing across functions, geographies and leadership levels.
• Change leadership to lead through transformation, adopt new ways of working and embed sustainable improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience with digital finance tools, data visualisation, automation, analytics or driver-based planning solutions is highly desirable.
• Professional finance qualification, accounting qualification, MBA or relevant business/finance degree is preferred.

Details

• Location: Shell Centre, Chennai, India.
• Experience level: Experienced Professionals.
• Worker type: Regular.