Airtel

The Corporate Institute; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Corporate Institute in Pune is seeking a Senior Manager/Deputy General Manager/General Manager for Business Planning & Analysis. You will own financial planning, profitability analyses, and stakeholder partnering to drive value.

You will oversee OPEX/CAPEX validation, P&L forecasting, and annual planning while leading a finance team and collaborating with business leaders to optimize costs and performance across regions.

Qualifications

• CA or MBA Finance required.
• 5–7 years post-qualification experience, 2+ years in business finance.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to drive profitability.
• Experience in cost optimization and financial planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Finance Analysis & Optimization: drive profitability by reducing costs and eliminating inefficiencies.
• Monitor product/segment/region performance vs targets with regular reporting.
• Validate OPEX/CAPEX business cases and approvals.
• Submit business plans and monthly P&L forecasts; prepare Annual Operating Plan with growth data.
• Provide KPI tracking through financial reports and variance analysis.
• Risk & Control: identify process weaknesses and control gaps, propose improvements.
• People Management: lead and develop finance teams.

Skills

Financial Modelling

Financial Analysis

Business Partnering

Influencing & Collaboration

Ownership Mindset

Learning Agility

Managing Teams

Education

CA / MBA-Finance

Job description

Job Title: Business Planning & Analysis

Function: Finance

Sub-Function: Business Finance

Location: Maharashtra/Pune

Level/Grade: Senior Manager/Deputy General Manager/General Manager

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

1. Finance Analysis & Optimization:

• Drive path to profitability for the business by reducing the costs and eliminating any inefficiencies.
• Monitoring product wise / segment wise / region wise performance vs targets.
• Validation of various business cases OPEX / CAPEX approvals.
• Submission of business plans and monthly P&L forecast.
• Preparation of Annual Operating Plan basis underlying growth, Market data, Competition benchmarking in discussion with the business teams.
• Monitoring of key KPIs through financial reports, variance analysis.

2. Risk & Control:

• Identification of process weaknesses, control gaps and risks and suggesting key process improvements to leadership to eliminate risks and leakages.

3. People Management:

Education Qualification: CA / MBA-Finance

Total Experience: 5 7 years of post-qualification experience, 2 years + of business finance experience.

Skills and Competencies:

Technical Competencies:

• Financial Modelling & analytics
• Understanding business data and financial statements
• Business Partnering

Behavioural Competencies:

• Ownership Mind set
• Learning Agility
• Managing Teams

Interpersonal Skills:

• Influencing & Collaboration

Our Employee Value Proposition:

Our Employee Value Proposition is made up of 3 pillars which is a succinct articulation of who we really are. Heres what you will get to experience if youre an Airtel employee:

• Limitless Impact: You get to make a difference to internal and external customers by taking small and big ideas to success and therefore leaving footprints at the scale of billions. And beyond.
• Limitless Ownership: You get to go above and beyond to take responsibility, challenge the norms and take risks to create big things in more ways than one.
• Limitless Careers: You have the freedom to imagine, and an open canvas available to you to experiment and implement new ideas to gain depth and breadth of experiences.