Overview
Senior Financial Analyst role within Marcura's finance team, covering financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting, and business partnering with Business Unit heads.
What you'll do
- Analyse monthly Income Statements (MTD & YTD) for assigned Business Units and explain performance drivers, trends and anomalies.
- Develop and maintain Business Unit-wise Income Statements, with results understood at revenue, margin and cost-line level.
- Generate and interpret Financial Ratio Reports, highlighting movements that require management attention.
- Manage unit economics analysis of products, highlighting weakness areas and supporting actions to improve.
- Build KPI dashboards and performance metrics, and draw out the operational drivers behind the numbers.
- Prepare and analyse forecasts for P&L, cashflow, scenario plans and long-term business plans, testing assumptions and quantifying sensitivities.
- Prepare management presentations, financial summaries and review packs with clear, insight-led commentary and recommended actions.
- Prepare detailed annual budgets in consultation with Business Unit heads, challenging assumptions and validating revenue and cost drivers.
- Prepare budget review decks and summary insights that explain movements against prior year, budget and latest forecast.
- Maintain and update rolling forecasts based on latest performance trends, and quantify the impact of emerging risks and opportunities.
- Perform variance analysis, identify root causes and recommend corrective actions to the Finance Business Partner and Business Unit heads.
- Act as a day-to-day analytical point of contact for Business Unit heads, presenting monthly results, answering performance queries and following through on actions.
- Work with the Finance Business Partner to provide financial analysis, modelling and decision support across all Business Units within the Group.
- Prepare and analyse business cases, investment proposals, pricing analyses and other financial evaluations, including ROI, payback and sensitivity analysis.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify efficiencies, optimise cost structures and enhance profitability across profit and cost centres, and track the benefits delivered.
- Translate financial data into clear, non-technical insights that help business leaders make faster and better-informed decisions.
- Provide the analysis underpinning finance-led initiatives and projects across the organisation.
- Prepare and analyse MIS reports, executive dashboards and cash forecasting summaries.
- Monitor capital budgeting processes, evaluate proposed spend against expected returns, and support effective cash flow planning.
- Contribute actively to improvement initiatives and finance transformation activities.
- Maintain, develop and enhance financial dashboards and performance trackers for Business Units.
- Build robust Excel-based models, reporting templates and automated tools to improve efficiency and accuracy, releasing time for higher-value analysis.
- Prepare monthly financial packs, reconcile data and validate assumptions so that analysis is built on reliable data.
- Interrogate large data sets using Excel and BI tools to surface trends and outliers not visible in standard reporting.
What you'll need
- 5+ years in a financial analysis, FP&A or finance business partner role, managing P&L, budgets and unit economics.
- Demonstrable experience interacting directly with business / department heads.
- Tech-efficiency mindset: demonstrated experience automating work using tech, particularly AI.
- Growth mindset, eager to learn, take on new projects while ensuring all deliverables are executed to high quality with a business focus.
Nice to have
- 4-5 years in FP&A / business finance.
- Commercial consulting / advisory experience.
- Data analytics.
- Shipping / service sector background.
Details
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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