Financial Plan & Analysis Specialist

Accenture; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Financial Plan Analysis Specialist in Gurugram District, India. This role requires 7 to 11 years of experience in financial planning analysis, focusing on reporting, budgeting, and strategic insights. Ideal candidates should be commerce graduates (CA/CMA/CFA/MBA Finance preferred) with strong stakeholder management and analytical skills.

The position will involve using tools like Onestream, SAP, and Power BI to aid in decision-making and provide insights to clients.

Qualifications

• 7 to 11 years of experience in Financial Planning Analysis.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Commerce graduate preferred, with CA/CMA/CFA/MBA Finance being ideal.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic planning and budgeting.
• Manage financial reporting and variance analysis.
• Use analytics applications to prepare and manage data.

Skills

Financial Planning and Analysis

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

MS Excel

SAP ERP

Onestream

Power BI

Education

Commerce graduate (CA/CMA/CFA/MBA Finance preferred)

Tools

Onestream

Anaplan

SAP

Power BI

MS Excel

Job description

Skill required: Financial Planning Analysis - Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA)

Designation: Financial Plan Analysis Specialist

Qualifications: Any Graduation

Years of Experience:7 to 11 years

What would you do
You will be aligned with our Finance Operations vertical and help us in determining financial outcomes by getting involved and leading team providing planning, forecasting, collecting operational data/reports, conducting analysis and reconciling transaction, preparation of standard Adhoc management reports for region, brands, country, product, Service type etc., providing standardized/adhoc and insightful level of analyses.

What are we looking for

Ideal Candidate should have strong experience in the following areas:

Strong domain experience to deliver FPA activities including strategic plan, budget regular forecast exercise, Financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, preparation complete analysis of PL (including gross margin, net margin SGA analysis)

Strong experience in working on key planning forecasting tools (including but not limited to Onestream Anaplan)

Experience of working on SAP ERP platform

Experienced in working on key analytics applications such as Power BI/ Power query including creation of dashboards will be preferred

Strong hands on experience in MS Excel

Strong stakeholder management skills

Strong analytical and story telling skills

Must be a Commerce graduate (CA/CMA/CFA/MBA Finance preferred)

Experienced in participating transformation and improvement initiatives for FPA area

Comfortable to work in Flexi / Night Shifts

Roles and Responsibilities:

Support Strategic plan, budget regular forecast exercises

Responsible for Financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, preparation analysis of PL (including gross margin net margin analysis), forecast accuracy SGA expense analysis.

Planning, Creating and managing reporting data and report out from various database systems

Provide professional expertise and direction to other team members and act as the focal point for business units and Technology by participating in key project initiatives.

As required, manage client communication, respond to queries, investigate irregularities and anomalies and provide technical support for daily tasks.

Preparation of Working Capital Cost of Sales reports is to support the business.

Partners with client stakeholders to understand their strategic goals, operational context and activities to explain results with strategic business insights and facts

Use a diverse range of applications (including but not limited to (Onestream, Anaplan, SAP, Power BI MS Excel) and understand the business and technical functionality of each application and its relevance to the business community.

Provide support to all business units across the region/brands, including product understanding, validation, problem/query resolution and coordination of communications.

Uses storytelling principles to convey impactful messages

Responsible to maintain services in line with Service expectations agreed with the business.

Development, Objectives and Performance management of the team and individuals in line with policy and performance framework

Ensure one on one feedback is held with all team members

Reduction of single points of failure and dependency on key individuals

Qualification Any Graduation