Specialist - F&A - FP&A 4B

Overview

The FP&A Analyst / Senior Analyst will support management reporting, financial performance analysis, budgeting and forecasting cycles, planning data consolidation, and ad-hoc analytical requirements. The role requires strong financial acumen, analytical capability, attention to data integrity, and accurate delivery within demanding reporting and planning timelines.

What you'll do

• Prepare and distribute standardized management reports using actual, budget, forecast and prior-period financial data.
• Extract financial and operational data from approved source systems and validate completeness, mappings, reporting periods and totals against source records.
• Populate and maintain SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and other approved reporting templates; perform formatting, presentation and quality checks before review and distribution.
• Perform actual versus budget, actual versus forecast, prior-period, prior-year and forecast-versus-forecast variance analysis.
• Identify material and unusual movements and analyze key drivers including volume, price/rate, timing, headcount, compensation, FX, project timing, regulatory impacts and one-time items.
• Coordinate with Controllers, Business Finance and other stakeholders to obtain and validate explanations for significant variances and unresolved movements.
• Prepare first-draft management commentary based on validated financial results and business explanations; validate all statements generated by approved AI tools before inclusion in reporting.
• Update budget and forecast models using approved assumptions; refresh formulas and linked data, validate model integrity, perform reasonableness checks and maintain version control.
• Support annual budget, periodic forecast and other planning cycles by distributing templates, tracking submissions, validating business-unit inputs and consolidating planning data.
• Perform consolidation checks including entity/account mapping, currency consistency, duplicate submissions, intercompany considerations, headcount, Capex and total-to-source reconciliations.
• Provide ad-hoc data extraction and analysis for Controllers and FP&A stakeholders including account trends, cost-center analysis, Opex, Capex, headcount and business-unit performance.
• Prepare supporting schedules, management presentations, tables and charts in accordance with approved reporting standards.
• Maintain reporting calendars, workpapers, planning versions, submission trackers and appropriate supporting documentation.
• Support period-end reporting and ensure outputs are delivered within agreed timelines and meet first-time-right quality expectations.
• Follow applicable internal controls, access requirements, data confidentiality standards and review/approval procedures; support audit and control requests where applicable.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Bachelor's degree in Commerce.
• Bachelor's degree in Economics.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance.
• Master's degree in Finance.
• Skills in Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations, Business Financial Planning, Data Reporting, Demand Forecasting, Financial Management, Financial Operations, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), General Ledger Reconciliations, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Record To Report (R2R) and SAP Overview.
• English Language Proficiency - Intermediate - B1.

Nice to have

• Certified Financial Analyst (CFA).
• Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA).
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Financial Modelling and Valuation Analyst.

Details

• Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
• Work arrangement: Office work.
• Work shift: Night Job (India).
• Employment type: Regular.