Business Operations & FP&A Analyst

Machinify India; Karnataka; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara India Private Limited is seeking a Business Operations & FP&A Analyst to optimize recurring finance processes, turn data into leadership narratives, and build scalable SOPs.

The role spans monthly FP&A reporting, market intelligence, deck creation, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate with finance, HR, product, and engineering in a hybrid India-based setup.

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: lookups, pivots, multi-tab models, and structured formatting.
• Strong written communication; write an SOP that is easy to follow.
• Strong PowerPoint skills with clean design.
• Exceptional attention to detail and habit of double-checking work.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to structure loosely defined asks.

Responsibilities

• Build sustainable processes and SOPs for monthly and weekly deliverables.
• Support the monthly P&E financial dashboard updates and related materials.
• Compile weekly earnings and market intelligence reports; summarize themes for leadership.
• Create on-brand PowerPoint decks from raw data; present leadership-ready materials.
• Challenge assumptions and push back when something doesn’t make sense; bring a point of view.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Written communication

Attention to detail

Ambiguity handling

SQL basics

Python basics

AI integration mindset

Tools

Paycom

Workday

Sage

Job description

Business Operations & FP&A Analyst (India)

• Team
  Finance / FP&A
• Location
  India (hybrid), with overlap with EST Hours
• Reports to
  Sr. Director Strategic Finance

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.
• 3. Market intelligence
  • 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.