Business Analyst - Finance_MPIN

Bosch Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bosch Mobility Platform and Services is seeking a focused Finance Analyst to partner with business teams, interpreting data and metrics to forecast performance and support strategic decisions.

You will develop KPI definitions, perform variance analysis, and contribute to forecasting cycles across operations and partner management. Proficiency in analytics tools is essential, with experience in SQL/Tableau preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, statistics, business or related field.
• CA/CMA/MBA desirable.
• 2-3 years of financial analytical experience in a marketplace environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop standardized definitions of master data and KPIs for data management and improve automation where possible.
• Collect and synthesize information from stakeholders ensuring compliance with policies.
• Prepare analyses and reports comparing plans vs actuals and present dashboards; conduct variance analysis.
• Run predictive analytics and data modelling for inventory, buyer trends, campaigns, and market trends.
• Analyze cost and pricing trends and communicate causes to business teams.
• Support monthly financial close processes and assist in internal/external financial statements.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Variance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, statistics, business or related field

CA/CMA/MBA desirable

Tools

SQL

Tableau

R

Python

Excel

Job description

• Legal Entity: Mobility Platform and Services

Company Description

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services, in the areas of automotive technology, industrial technology, consumer goods, energy and building technology. As the largest auto component supplier in the country, setting a benchmark in the sectors it operates in, the company has to its credit several laurels.

From a Bosch India perspective, we see a need to transform with new mind-sets - operating together with businesses, governments, and consumers- to imagine a future landscape focusing on efficient mobility concepts, clean energy needs, decentralized governance, convergence on connectivity etc. In an era of dynamic technological advancements, evolving consumer preferences, and shifting regulations, Bosch envisions a connected ecosystem within the shared economy that will shape the future of mobility.

With a vision of accident-free and emission-free mobility, Bosch Mobility Platform and Services (MPS) is building an ecosystem of digital platforms and neutral e-commerce marketplaces. Our goal is to enable businesses to collaborate, innovate and co-create to solve complex problems of mobility in the realms of goods movement, people transportation, and parked vehicle ecosystem.

Job Description

To partner with the business managing and interpreting business data and critical performance indicators, while translating the latest business trends into accurate forecasts, providing financial and strategic support to ensure that business decisions are appropriately based on accurate and reliable metrics and financial information for competitive advantage.

Business Analytics and Reporting

• Facilitate development of standardized definitions of master data and KPIs for effective data management, while seeking to improve or automate wherever possible
• Collects and synthesizes information from a variety of stakeholders within the standards of legal compliance
• Work with operations, partner management and business teams to provide analyse and report plans vs actuals on regular basis; Present entity performance dashboards, conduct variance analysis and support action planning
• Run predictive analytics and data modelling for improved business outcomes based on inventory analysis, buyer trends, campaign analysis, commodity and exchange market trends etc.
• Drive analysis of cost and pricing trends and articulate related cause and effect to business teams
• Routinely communicate business unit and company consolidated financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics
• Assist in concocting proposals related to changes in policies and guidelines, ensure new policies and guidelines are being followed and implemented
• Analyse business programs and transactional data using statistical methods to identify causal relationships and trends

Compliance management

• Ensure compliance to global, state, and central government reporting and filing requirements and support the functional excellence team with relevant inputs
• Adhere to relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions to ensure controlled and consistent flow of information
• Support development of finance data management workflows and processes, and data reporting and review mechanisms
• Support the Finance Business Partner in managing the assets in the books of the company and set up controls around the same
• Collaborate closely with the functional excellence team controllers and accountants on monthly financial activities and month‐end close processes; Assist in the preparation of internal and external financial statements as needed

Business Partnering and Support

• Work with MPS and emerging solution businesses during forecasting and reporting cycles applying modelling, forecasting and planning techniques
• Collaborate with Finance Business Partner to study in-market strategic initiatives and business performance using test and control analytics, benchmarking, statistical concepts, and financial measures to guide decision making by business
• Provide timely data inputs to foresee fund requirements and effectively manage the cash flow
• Support the development of the finance data management strategy to ensure business alignment and functional excellence team integration with other interfacing functions
• Participate in the development and submission of feasibility studies, business plans and investment initiatives, to provide a thorough financial perspective of the relevant opportunities and risks
• Prepare presentations in support of stakeholder meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company
• Act as a running source of truth for numbers – key metrics and performance drivers for MPS and other emerging businesses
• Participate in standardization and automation projects

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, statistics, business or related field
• CA/CMA/MBA desirable

2-3 years of financial analytical experience in a marketplace environment

Additional Information

Knowledge

• Commercial knowledge and knowledge of local and global accounting and tax standards including industry standards and other regulations
• Knowledge of controls and risk management frameworks Knowledge of enterprise financial systems
• Knowledge of industry and other financial best practises for cost management and budgetary control
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, and familiarity with databases
• Experience using any of SQL / Tableau / R / Python is desirable
• Data management, analysis and visualization