FP&A - Sr Associate

Overview

Support financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and analysis that inform business decisions within the Internal Firm Services practice at PwC Acceleration Center India, while guiding junior team members.

What you'll do

• Use business insights and detailed analysis to provide Business and Finance Leads with support and guidance on P&L management.
• Provide ad hoc support to the Finance Leader, sourcing information and providing quality analysis.
• Assist and provide depth of insight to the Leadership team enabling key strategic decision making.
• Assist with business revenue and cost forecasting.
• Demonstrate an understanding of business issues and apply market, industry and firm knowledge.
• Work with Finance Leaders to assist in preparing budgets, plans and forecasts.
• Assist with the production of forward-looking and insight-driven reporting to help the business plan, prepare and manage future performance.
• Assist in interpreting monthly financial results and preparing commentary to the Finance Leader.
• Monitor areas of financial performance against KPIs held in the financial scorecard, escalating issues where management action is required, with supporting analysis.
• Work closely with wider business support teams to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the business.
• Assist with providing Partners with relevant accounting advice from the bid stage through the life of engagements.
• Spread local financial risk knowledge to the Financial Control centre of excellence and support the central team with complex queries requiring local business insight.
• Provide local intelligence to the Financial Control centre of excellence in line with agreed guidelines.
• Undertake revenue recognition, forecasting and performance variance activities as required by engagements.
• Proactively highlight risks and opportunities to financial performance and develop actions to mitigate, correct or exploit them with senior decision makers.

What you'll need

• At least 4-9 years of experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with good attention to detail.
• Action-oriented and a self-starter.
• Focused on continuous improvement in all areas of work.
• A strong relationship builder who builds trust with key stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Preference for a Bachelor's degree in at least one of the following fields: Accounting, Finance, Economics.
• Demonstrated financial planning, analysis and forecasting experience.
• Interpreting monthly results and KPI trends for decision making.
• Supporting P&L management, budgeting and variance analysis.
• Building relationships with senior stakeholders across finance.
• Using advanced Excel for reporting and ad hoc analysis.

Details

• Job location: Hyderabad only.
• Travel requirement: 0%.