Name: TBD

Location: Bangalore

Job Title: Manager/Assistant Manager F&A

Reports to: Head FP&A

Team strength:NA

Function:Finance & Accounts

Department: FP&A

Band -

(Experience 2-6yrs. minimum)

Key Result Areas

Ensure timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the following activities

Responsible for the following activities

Planning & Forecasting

• Co-ordinate budgeting activities with various stakeholders & cross functional teams.
• Create a rolling forecast calendar and reviews. Make the company ready and ensure information is available for market facing activities.
• Preparation and automation of budgeting and reporting process

Decision support –

• Support business in maintaining a profitable portfolio mix of products.
• Profitability evaluation for each business proposal.
• Help evaluate commercials of large contracts

Reporting – Variances and Analytics

• Preparation of Monthly financial and Ops Reports
• Review & report monthly (eventually weekly) performance of the business with financial & non-financial KPI’s.
• Analytics and conclusions for performance variance , inputs for cost savings
• Actual vs. Plan and Month on month , Quarter on Quarter on Quarter Analysis at India & branch level
• Monthly MIS deck & KPI monitoring.
• Produce weekly & monthly MIS
• Any other Adhoc reporting.

Project Management:

• Manage multiple projects, help create plans with milestones and timelines, monitor progress, report on status and escalate as required.
• Create document templates, record requirements/URS through teams part of projects, disseminate the knowledge of this ability
• Knowledge of finance and accounting concepts and familiarity with accounting processes and flows.
• Prioritise requirements and focus on projects that add most value, run a structure process for this purpose
• Interact with other functions on cross functional projects
• Knowledge of F&A systems, processes and implementing value added projects
• Participate in projects from other functions as F&A representative

Developmental:

Ensure that reporting requirements of business are met with new system & applications. The activity would involve

• Co-ordinate with IT & Business team and agreement on methodology & reports logic between various stakeholders.
• Prepare reporting calendar & reduce TAT for all usual reports

PERSONAL SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS

ESSENTIAL

DESIRED

Qualifications

Technical skills

Professional skills

Previous role related experience

Desired attitudes or behavior (competencies)

People based experience

CA, ICWA

Exposure to ERP Solution, Excel and PPT

Strong FP&A Skills

Strong Communication Skills, delegating, well organized.

FP&A experience in medium to large organization

Self-Driven, Creative and passionate

Should have problem solving ability

Should have good leadership skills and ability to manage team with good networking skills

Experience in logistics industry

Experience in Project Management

Key Challenges of the Job

Key issues and challenges faced on the job which would require superior performance to overcome. Include industry, business or market challenges, challenges arising from the competitive and regulatory environment, social or environmental challenges, geography related, occupational hazards etc.

Key challenges will be –

1. High volume of transactions.
2. System and related outputs and consistency of those. Limited support from the system
3. Transactional nature of the business
4. Manage nationally distributed set up.
5. Understand business complexity.
6. Limited knowledgeof financial parameters in the business

Key Skills/Experience Required –

Specific education qualification/certification, specific functional experience etc., NEEDED FOR THE JOB.This is what is required for the role and is not necessarily the role holder’s personal profile.

Professional finance/accounting qualification

Knowledge and experience of finance and accounting, specifically in areas Financial Planning & Analysis.

High degree of process orientation, ability to build process out of chaos i.e. adaptability to anaccelerating business and startup mindset.

Financial modelling

Ability to think out of the box and produce results with available resources

Good at designing and maintaining control process relevant to finance

Internal & External Relationships:

Role – Department

Frequency of Interaction

Purpose of the Interaction

Business team & Cross functional teams

Monthly

Business Partnering, Project Management and budgeting

Zone/RO

Weekly/Monthly

Compilation of circle wise MIS

Key Functions & Responsibilities

Primary tasks & responsibilities that are specific to this position. This is an estimate of percent of work time spent on each - over the span of the year (it should not exceed 100%)

% of Time

Strategic

20%

Operational

40%

Developmental

40%