FP&A - Senior Associate role

Association of International Certified Professional Accountants; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India seeks a Senior FP&A Associate in Kolkata to provide strategic financial advice and insights across Lines of Service and internal teams. You will partner with Finance Managers, support budgeting and forecasting, and help senior leaders optimize financial performance.

The role emphasizes data interpretation, use of tools like Alteryx and PowerBI, and building strong stakeholder relationships while upholding professional standards.

Qualifications

• English fluency required for oral and written communication.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced MS Excel skills for modelling and forecasting.
• Progression towards CIMA/ACCA or equivalent.
• Commercially minded with strong business understanding.

Responsibilities

• Support business strategy and planning, including P&L management.
• Forecast budgets and forward-looking performance with Finance Leaders.
• Provide analysis and insights to inform decisions and actions.
• Interpret monthly results and monitor KPIs with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence and other Finance teams.

Skills

English proficiency

Strong communication

MS Excel (advanced)

Financial analysis

IFRS knowledge

Education

CIMA/ACCA progression

Tools

Alteryx

PowerBI

SAP S/4 HANA

Job description

FP&A - Senior Associate role

Location Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaCategory OtherJob Id 741358WD Senior Associate

The Opportunity

Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of Finance business partnering (FP&A) across PwC. You'll work alongside the Finance Business Partnering team of a large network firm to provide financial insights to teams across our client-facing Lines of Service and internal teams. You’ll work at the heart of a team that solves real client challenges, building your skills so you can go further.

With hands‑on learning, cutting‑edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.

You will provide strategic financial advice and guidance, helping stakeholders across our Lines of Service to optimize their financial performance and make informed business decisions. You will build strong working relationships with senior (and sometimes challenging) stakeholders, growing your personal brand and deepening your technical skills. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, delivering quality work even when the path forward is unclear. Embracing ambiguity, you will use these moments as opportunities to grow.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will leverage a broad range of tools and methodologies to generate new ideas and solve problems. You will interpret data to inform insights and recommendations, upholding professional and technical standards. This position offers a chance to develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is evolving, while contributing to the firm's overall strategy.

Working closely with the Finance Managers to produce the financial insights needed by our business, and taking increased leadership over work with experience, this is a collaborative, diverse and engaging role, and a vital function to the firm.

The individual in this role will be exposed to a variety of Finance functions, building working relationships with other Business Partnering teams, the Directors of Finance, business leaders, and PwC’s Centres of Excellence.

Responsibilities

The individual in this role can expect to be exposed to a variety of critical Finance functions, depending on the team they are assigned to support. They will also build working relationships with other Business Partnering teams, the Directors of Finance, business leaders, and PwC’s Centres of Excellence. The primary responsibilities and areas the Finance Management Team operates across - which will be dependent on the Business Unit you are assigned to support - includes:

• Business strategy and planning
  • Use business insights and detailed analysis to provide the Business and Finance Leads with support and guidance on P&L management
  • Complete complex data analysis using MS Excel and other modelling and visualisation tools (e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI etc)
  • Provide ad hoc support to the Finance Leader, responsible for sourcing information and providing quality analysis of information
  • Assist and provide depth of insight to the Leadership team enabling key strategic decision making
  • Undertake business revenue & cost forecasting
  • Demonstrating an understanding of the business issues and applying market, industry and firm knowledge
• Budgeting and forecasting
  • Working with the Finance Leaders in assisting to prepare budgets, plans and forecasts.
  • Production of forward looking and insight driven reporting for the business to help the business plan, prepare and manage future performance.
• Performance management and commercial oriented solutions
  • Interpretation of the monthly financial results and preparation of commentary to the Finance Leader
  • Monitoring areas of financial performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) held in the financial scorecard, escalating issues where management action is required, with supporting analysis
  • Proactively highlight risks and opportunities to financial performance and develop actions to mitigate, correct or exploit as appropriate with senior decision makers
  • Work closely with the wider business support teams to develop relationships and understand the strategic imperatives of the business
• Financial control and compliance
  • Providing Partners with relevant accounting advice from the bid stage and through the life of engagements.
  • Sharing local financial risk knowledge with the Financial Control centre of excellence and supporting the central team with complex queries that require local business insight
• Complex Engagement Support
  • Undertake revenue recognition, forecasting, performance variance activities as required by engagements.

What You Must Have

• At least 4-9 years of experience
• Oral and written proficiency in English required
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Intermediate to advanced MS Excel skills
• Progression towards an accounting qualification with a relevant global body such as CIMA or ACCA
• Commercially minded with a deep business understanding
• Able to demonstrate application of accounting standards, including IFRS 15

What Sets You Apart

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with good attention to detail
• Experienced user of data analysis and data visualisation tools (Alteryx, PowerBI)
• Action orientated and a self-starter
• Focused on continuous improvement in all areas of their work
• A strong relationship builder who builds trust in their key stakeholders and demonstrates experience of managing challenging stakeholders
• Demonstrate the use of innovative technologies to improve your financial analysis and deliver greater insights to stakeholders
• Experience of SAP S/4 HANA is beneficial