Lead - Business Planning & Analysis

Overview

Senior individual-contributor role leading Business Planning and Analysis across Digital, Data and IT Finance, partnering with senior leaders on planning, forecasting and performance management.

What you'll do

• Lead Business Planning and Analysis activities, providing high-quality financial insights and decision support to business leaders.
• Drive consistent implementation of financial planning processes, strategies and policies across the organisation.
• Deliver timely management reporting, forecasts and financial analysis to support informed business decisions.
• Lead detailed budgeting and forecasting to support global, regional and business planning.
• Develop early-warning financial tracking to identify emerging risks, opportunities and performance trends.
• Analyse expenses, cash flow, investments and project costs to identify opportunities to improve performance.
• Partner with leadership on financial, cost and risk analysis, translating insights into corrective actions.
• Deliver profitability, resource allocation and benchmarking analysis to shape short- and long-term priorities.
• Provide transversal leadership across BPA workstreams, aligning stakeholders and driving outcomes through influence rather than formal people management.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in Business Planning and Analysis, financial planning or a closely related finance discipline.
• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial performance analysis.
• Proven ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Strong business partnering and senior stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively, influence decisions and operate with a CFO mindset.
• Demonstrated experience analysing financial risks, opportunities, costs, profitability and business performance.
• Proven transversal leadership, with the ability to align senior stakeholders, influence across functions and lead complex work without formal line-management responsibility.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving capabilities, combined with accountability, ownership, curiosity and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
• Ability to operate with agility across regional or global environments, navigate ambiguity and complexity, and deliver outcomes with limited direction while driving consistent financial processes and standards.

Nice to have

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Building High Performance Team, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Database Normalization, Data Cleansing, Data Visualization, Financial Management Reporting, Give Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Relationships, Key Driver Analysis (KDA), Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning Analysis, Post-Merger Integrations (PMI), Problem Solving, Process Optimization, Stakeholder Influence.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad (Office).
• Hybrid work mode (#LI-Hybrid).
• Reasonable accommodation available for applicants with disabilities.