Financial Plan & Analysis Assoc Manager

8119 ASOL Gurgaon 5 SEZ Company; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior FP&A professional to drive enterprise performance planning and strategic financial analysis. The role partners with business units to align plans, analyze market volatility, and deliver forward-looking insights for executive decision-making.

Candidates should have 10+ years in FP&A or commercial finance, strong modelling skills, and experience with ERP/BI tools. The position emphasizes leadership and cross-functional collaboration in a global consulting environment.

Qualifications

• Graduate/Post degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience in Commercial Portfolio Management, FP&A, or related finance fields.
• Experience with commodity markets and integrated business planning is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and continuous improvement of enterprise performance management (IBP).
• Partner with BU’s to align long-term and near-term plans and drive performance reporting.
• Provide scenario modelling, margin analytics, and decision-support for leadership.
• Coordinate cross-functional performance dialogues and ensure data integrity for reporting.

Skills

FP&A

Financial modelling

Scenario analysis

Education

BCom/MCom

Tools

SAP ECC

Job description

Skill required: Financial Planning & Analysis - Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Designation: Financial Plan & Analysis Assoc Manager Qualifications:BCom/MCom Years of Experience:10 to 14 years

About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

What would you do? The Senior ASP – plays a critical role in connecting enterprise strategy, market volatility, and operational execution across Fonterra’s business. This role is responsible for Partnering with BU’s as necessary leading performance frameworks both Reporting and forward looking , driving forward-looking analysis, and embedding integrated performance management. Drawing on experience in consumer goods, retail grocery and wholesale, liquor industry (Dairy, oil & gas, grain, mining, energy or chemicals), this role brings deep understanding of cost drivers, margin volatility, capacity constraints, market risk, manufacturing, supply chain, product costing and capital allocation tradeoffs. The role provides strategic insights to understand past performance and drive future performance, scenario modelling and decision support to executive stakeholders, ensuring financial and operational performance are tightly aligned to strategic objectives and market realities.

What are we looking for?

Qualifications required Graduate/Post degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting preferred. CA/ICWA/CPA is not required, but it is preferred.

Skills, knowledge, experience required

• 10+ years’ experience in Commercial Portfolio Management, FP&A, Business Performance, or Commercial Finance within a commodity-based environment such as oil & gas, grocery retail/wholesale/liquor store, grain/soft commodities, mining, metals, CPG, Beverages, manufacturing, banking or energy markets Deep commercial & operational understanding
• Experience working with commodity markets, price curves, hedging, supply/demand analytics, or trading.
• Understanding of global supply chains, production economics, and asset intensive operations.
• Experience connecting financial performance with operational and market drivers.

Advanced analytical & modelling capability

• Strong skills in scenario modelling, cost curves, sensitivity analysis, optimisation models, and price-volume-mix.
• Experience with advanced analytics or forecasting tools used in commodity industries.

Systems & digital capability

• Advanced Excel — financial modelling, large datasets, pivot analysis, complex lookups
• SAP ECC or equivalent ERP — report extraction, cost centre mapping, GL cod 6.

Enterprise Reporting, Data & Systems

• Support the Finance Business Partner, FP&A Manager, Divisional General Manager in team leadership, planning, and execution of key initiatives.
• Lead adoption of enterprise CPM tools (SAP SAC, Power BI, or equivalent).
• Build reporting for trading, and product contribution margin.
• Ensure data quality, , and single-source-of-truth structures for performance reporting.

Leadership & Influence

• Lead cross-functional performance dialogues, including monthly performance reviews, risk reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
• Coach analysts and stakeholders on interpreting commodity driven performance drivers. driven performance drivers.
• Mentor wider FP&A and operational finance teams in understanding margin dynamics and drivers of volatility.
• Partner to drive long term outcomes for the Business

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Performance Frameworks

   • Working with Finance ensure alignment of long term and near term plans
   • Lead development and continuous improvement of the enterprise performance management (IBP) framework, ensuring alignment across Trading, Operations, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Commercial functions.
   • Translate commodity market movements, input cost volatility, FX impacts, and supply chain constraints into actionable performance insights for senior leaders.
   • Drive standardisation of planning, performance and reporting processes across the business units.

2. Market & Margin Analytics

   • Drive overall understanding of drivers and insights into Performance including Margins
   • Margin Analytics - Produce margin per unit / margin per product analysis incorporating commodity price curves, cost curves, and market supply/demand dynamics
   • Integrate operational KPIs (yield, throughput, energy use, working capital) with Sales and Optimisation financial KPIs to create a unified performance view.
   • Provide insights into Optimisation (swing) decisions (e.g., product mix optimisation, channel allocation, plant utilisation).

3. Scenario Analysis & Decision Support

   • Lead complex multi-variable scenario modelling (commodity prices, global demand, weather impacts, geopolitical shifts, supply disruptions).
   • Support strategic investment decisions including capacity expansions, asset maintenance cycles, and capital optimisation.
   • Run sensitivities for pricing, cost shocks, operational disruptions, and supply-chain changes.
   • Provide clear financial narratives to support decision-making at leadership levels.

4. Performance Management

   • Support target setting and KPI tracking for the business unit.
   • Drive continuous performance monitoring, identifying opportunities for improvement.
   • Provide analytical support on revenue, cost, margin, working capital drivers, store forecasting, profitability analysis or occupancy on shelves
   • Support cost recoveries through allocation models or charge backs from operations or other business units

5. Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

   • Ensure IBP integrates demand, supply, inventory, production planning and commercial strategy into a single enterprise plan.
   • Critically evaluate plan assumptions using demand forecasts, commodity price outlooks, cost curves and market intelligence.
   • Ensure alignment between financial plan, S&OP, and operational plans—especially in volatile market environments.

BCom,MCom

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