Associate Manager Finance Business Partner

Shashwath Solution; Dadri; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Shashwath Solution in India seeks a Finance & Planning professional to manage month-end close, produce accurate financial reports, and review contractual terms affecting pricing and revenue. You will identify risks, lead strategic and operating forecasts, and ensure cost visibility at the account level across multiple cities.

You will drive forecast accuracy, support cash collection, and collaborate with account managers, finance leadership, and operational teams to improve margins and ensure

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate month-end close activities in line with the reporting calendar.
• Prepare financial reports that reflect account performance accurately.
• Review contracts and master service agreements for financial and pricing terms including COLA, price changes and SLAs.
• Identify and analyze risks and propose solutions for effective closure.
• Lead planning cycles (Strategic Planning, Operating plans, forecasts) with accuracy.
• Understand account-level costs, including labor utilization and non-labor charges.
• Ensure forecast accuracy through financial modelling and analysis to support decision-making.
• Drive the forecast process at account level and maintain models including backlog and sales pipeline.
• Monitor unbilled, deferred and revenue at risk activities.
• Prepare risk reports and track top-line impacts to closure.
• Support cash collection through timely billing at the account level.
• Support margin improvement initiatives with the account and finance leadership.
• Manage ad-hoc projects ensuring compliance with revenue recognition, AFM guidelines and SOX controls.
• Participate in Balance Sheet Reviews, Asset Impairment Reviews and EAC reviews.
• Support controllership and SOX compliance teams as needed and assist audits.
• Maintain a strong control environment for assigned areas.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with Account Managers and delivery management.
• Assist operations managers on financial processes and decisions.
• Provide in-depth margin insights and translate variances into actions.
• Build relationships with Finance leadership and other business functions.
• Partner with delivery/sell and stakeholders to resolve operational challenges.
• Participate in DSS training initiatives and deliver at least one training session during the financial year.
• Location - Bengaluru, Chennai, Noida, Pune/Mumbai/Kolkata/Hyd

Job description

The key responsibilities and areas of focus are:

1. Ensure timely and accurate completion of all month end close activities in line with the account and DXC reporting calendar.

2. Providing financial reports that accurately reflect financial performance of the account.

3. Review the Contracts/Master Service Agreement in terms of Financial and Pricing clauses (such as COLA, price changes, volume commitments etc) termination, SLA clauses and benchmarking related activities.

4. Identifying and analyzing the risk and assessing the impact on the account and the organization in signing up the clauses and providing logical solutions & alternative positions for the effective closure.

5. Lead all the planning cycles (Strategic Planning, Operating plans, forecasts etc) with high level of accuracy and thorough understanding of the business dynamics in collaboration with the business at the account level.

6. Ensure with the CP a complete understanding of the cost at the account level, including the basis of labor charges including utilization and non labor charges.

7. Ensure forecast accuracy at the account level through financial modelling and analysis and providing decision making information to business, to include risk and operations related to the forecast

8. Drive the forecast process with the account level and maintain working files and models to support the process including view of backlog & sales pipeline.

9. Monitoring Unbilled, deferred and Revenue at Risk related activities.

10. Preparation of risk reports, assessing top line impacts and tracking the risk items till closure.

11. Support optimization of cash collection through timely billing at an account level.

12. Work to support the CP and Finance Manager to drive margin improvement initiatives with the account.

Control & Compliance -

1. Manage and lead ad-hoc projects ensuring compliance with all Revenue Recognition principles, AFM guidelines and adherence to SOX controls and compliance

.2. Participate in Balance Sheet Reviews, Asset Impairment Reviews, EAC reviews on a monthly and/or quarterly basis.

3. Support and provide information as necessary to finance support functions such as controllership and SOX compliance teams as and when requested.

4. Participate and support internal and external audits as necessary.

5. Maintain a strong control environment for assigned areas.Behavioral Traits1.Build and maintain productive, beneficial relationships with Account Managers and delivery management and other internal groups.

2.Assist operations managers on financial processes, systems, and the financial impact of business decisions.

3.Provides in-depth business margin insights and analysis by translating variances in financial and non-financial KPIs into actions.

4.Build strong relationship with Finance leadership and other business functions across the organization.

5.Partner with deliver/sell and other stakeholders to resolve various operational/strategic level challenges faced on the ground.

6.Participate in the training initiative across DSS teams and ensure at least one training session is taken up (as a trainer) during the financial year.
Location - B'luru,Chennai,Noida,Pune/Mumbai/Kolkata/Hyd)