The role
will be covering entity level FP&A, management reporting and planning processes and provides an opportunity to interact with key stakeholders at NPCI group. The incumbent will work as a part of FP&A team based in Mumbai, India.
Key responsibilities:
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Assist in the annual budgeting and forecasting processes for OPEX and CAPEX.
- Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic initiatives.
- Analyse financial results, variances vs budget at various levels/dimension, identify trends, and provide actionable insights and commentary to the Sr. management.
- Contribute to the rolling forecast process: Provide updates to input templates as needed; coordinate with business partners to ensure reliable forecast; implement controls to validate integrity of forecast.
- Perform detailed cost allocation based on set guidelines and continually work to improve internal cost framework.
- Management Reporting: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for senior management.
- Take ownership of the monthly P&L and interact with representatives within finance, to ensure completeness and accuracy of underlying accounted information; verify that cost centers and other financial dimensions are appropriately assigned.
- Dynamic performance management: Drive rationalization and movement of budget across functions to support functional budgetary requirements while fueling growth and overall budget management.
- Facilitate commercial clearance of Purchase requisitions (PR), Purchase orders (PO) and other financial transactions.
- Stakeholder Management: Business partnering across the entity with cross functional stakeholders for decision making, P&L analysis and optimisation opportunities.
- Foster strong working relationships across different teams and departments.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to promote automation and enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the FP&A function.
- Develop and standardize financial reporting tools and dashboards.
- Help maintain standard operating procedures (SOP) related to FP&A on collaboration tools such as SharePoint/MS One note.
- Acquire in-depth knowledge of Microsoft D365 ERP and create ad hoc reports, as well as refine existing reports to meet specific needs.
- Leverage AI-powered forecasting tools and algorithms to build predictive financial models and improve rolling forecast accuracy.
- Use AI utilities to identify hidden trends, data anomalies, and variance drivers across financial datasets to automate monthly/quarterly P&L commentary and draft executive summaries.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 to 4 years of relevant experience in FP&A.
- Qualified Chartered accountant or MBA in Finance Experience working with financial planning and reporting systems (D365 ERP, SAP, Anaplan, Workday systems preferred); strong financial and accounting knowledge including understanding of financial statements.
- High degree of proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint for effective data analysis and reporting.
- Ability to work un unstructured environment.
- Tech savvy, with the ability to learn new applications quickly.
- Strong attention to detail, data integrity and accuracy Experience in utilizing Generative AI tools (e.g., Copilots, ChatGPT) and predictive analytics to automate financial commentary and workflows.
- Ability to design effective prompts for Generative AI tools to rapidly extract financial insights and synthesize heavy data.
- Robust analytical skills, with ability to build large financial models Excellent communication and coordination skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments
