Role & responsibilities
Role Purpose
Serve as a recognized FP&A subject matter expert, driving financial planning excellence, and transformation initiatives across business units or regions. Provide forward-looking insights to senior finance and business leadership, influence strategic decisions, and lead the design and optimization of FP&A processes, reporting frameworks, and analytical capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary FP&A advisor to senior finance leaders, providing strategic financial support.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes.
- Drive the implementation of AI use case and advance analytics across FP&A process.
- Lead financial assessments for business transformations, restructuring initiatives, investments, and productivity programs.
- Challenge business assumptions and proactively identify risks and opportunities impacting financial performance.
- Drive automation, digitalization, AI-enabled analytics, and reporting transformation initiatives across FP&A processes.
- Lead cross-functional projects and influence stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Global Business Services organizations.
- Establish best practices and standard methodologies across planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management activities.
- Provide technical and functional coaching to FP&A Leads, Senior Analysts, and Analysts.
- Act as a change champion for finance transformation and organizational initiatives.
Preferred candidate profile
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in finance CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA, MBA (Finance)
- 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Business Finance, Financial Controlling, Corporate Finance, or Finance Transformation.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing strategic business decisions.
Technical Skills
- Expert knowledge of FP&A practices, financial planning processes, and performance management.
- Strong expertise in financial systems and planning platforms (SAP, Essbase, Oracle, Power BI, etc.). AI prompting and experience on working on AI use case.
- Experience with analytics, automation, visualization, and AI-enabled finance solutions.
- Strong presentation and executive storytelling skills.
Competencies
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to connect financial performance to business strategy.
- High level of stakeholder management across functions
- Strong transformation and change management capabilities.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive outcomes independently.
- Continuous improvement and innovation mindset.
Key Success Measures
- Quality and strategic relevance of insights delivered to Finance stakeholders.
- Accuracy and reliability of forecasts and budget process.
- Success of finance transformation, automation, and standardization initiatives.
- Stakeholder satisfaction and confidence in FP&A support.
- Adoption AI to enhanced finance capabilities across the organization.