Business Operations & FP&A Analyst

Machinify India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Machinify India is seeking an FP&A Analyst to join our Finance / FP&A team in India (hybrid, overlapping EST hours). You will transform recurring monthly work into repeatable, well-documented processes and drive faster, more accurate reporting.

The role emphasizes turning data into actionable narratives for leadership and improving efficiency across the function. You will build SOPs, support monthly dashboards and spend allocations, create leadership-ready decks, and actively challenge processes

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years in FP&A, finance operations, business operations, strategy, or analytics.
• Affinity towards AI and integrating into daily workflows.
• Advanced Excel with lookups, pivots, multi-tab models, and structured formatting.
• Strong written communication and the ability to write SOPs.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and an eye for clean design.
• Attention to detail and habit of checking your own work.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of structuring loosely defined asks.

Responsibilities

• Build sustainable processes and SOPs for monthly/weekly deliverables.
• Turn manual workflows into standardized, repeatable processes with owners and timelines.
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities, then implement improvements.
• Maintain a living SOP library and update as processes change.
• Support monthly FP&A reporting, including dashboards and spend allocation review.
• Create on-brand PowerPoint decks and leadership-ready materials.
• Challenge assumptions and bring a point of view to improve processes.

Job description

Business Operations & FP&A Analyst (India)

Job Description

Team

Finance / FP&A

Location

India (hybrid), with overlap with EST Hours

Reports to

About the Role

We're looking for a sharp, adaptable analyst to be a force multiplier for the finance team. You'll take recurring monthly work and make it repeatable, documented, and faster each cycle. You'll also help turn data into clear narratives for leadership. This is not a "run the report and send it" role. We want someone who asks why we do something this way and proposes a better more efficient and repeatable solution.

What You'll Do

1. Build sustainable processes and SOPs (core focus)

• Document how monthly and weekly deliverables are produced, step by step, so anyone could run them.
• Turn manual, tribal-knowledge workflows into standardized, repeatable processes with clear inputs, owners, checks, and timelines.
• Identify bottlenecks, error-prone steps, and automation opportunities, then recommend and implement improvements.
• Maintain a living SOP library and keep it current as processes change.

2. Monthly FP&A reporting support

• Support the monthly P&E financial dashboard update and the review materials that go with it.
• Assist with spend allocation work, such as mapping AI and token spend to managers and departments, with gross vs. capitalized views.
• Run reasonableness checks, flag variances, and reconcile to prior periods before anything goes out.
• Compile the weekly earnings and market intelligence report from public company earnings materials and transcripts.
• Summarize key themes, pull relevant takeaways, and organize them into a clean, leadership-ready format.
• Track competitors and industry developments, and flag what matters to our business.

4. Deck and presentation creation

• Build and polish on-brand PowerPoint decks from raw data and rough outlines.
• Turn analysis into clear visuals, tables, and storylines that fit brand standards.
• Prepare recurring leadership and board-style materials on schedule.

5. Challenge and improve

• Pressure-test assumptions, definitions, and methods. Respectfully push back when something doesn't make sense.
• Bring a point of view, not just output.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves

• 3 to 5 years in FP&A, finance operations, business operations, strategy, or analytics (flexible for the right candidate).
• Affinity towards AI and integrating into daily workflows
• Advanced Excel: lookups, pivots, multi-tab models, and structured formatting. Comfortable with large, messy datasets.
• Strong written communication. You can write an SOP a stranger could follow.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and an eye for clean, consistent design.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a habit of checking your own work.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You can take a loosely defined ask and structure it yourself.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with HRIS or payroll data (Paycom, Workday) and ERP or accounting systems (Sage).
• Familiarity with software capitalization concepts.
• Experience with AI tools (Claude or similar) to speed up analysis, documentation, and drafting.
• Basic SQL, Python, or automation experience.
• Background in healthcare, payments, or SaaS.

Who Thrives Here

• Nimble: You're comfortable switching between a headcount reconciliation, a deck, and a research summary in the same week.
• Adaptable: Priorities shift and you adjust without losing quality.
• A free thinker: You question the process, offer alternatives, and aren't afraid to disagree.
• Ownership-minded: You see a task through, flag risks early, and improve what you touch.
• Collaborative: You work well across time zones and with finance, HR, and product and engineering partners.

How Success Is Measured

• Monthly deliverables are accurate, on time, and need minimal rework.
• Every recurring process has an up-to-date SOP, and turnaround times keep dropping.
• Decks and reports are leadership-ready with light review.
• You regularly surface process improvements and ideas you've initiated yourself.