Hiring FP&A Analyst

Alight; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight in Gurugram, India is seeking an experienced FP&A professional to lead budgeting, forecasting and management reporting. You will deliver analytics-driven insights, KPI dashboards, and ad-hoc reports while coordinating with stakeholders and finance partners.

The role requires strong accounting knowledge, experience with Workday and Adaptive Planning, and excellent communication and organizational skills to meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of FP&A/Business Finance experience and solid accounting knowledge.
• Qualified accountant (CA/CWA/CIMA/ACCA) or MBA in Finance / M.Com with 6+ years total experience.
• Excellent MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Hands-on Workday and Adaptive Planning experience is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills to meet tight reporting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare or deliver the budget and forecasting with stakeholder consultation.
• Prepare standard management reports with insights and analytics.
• Perform detailed revenue analysis and monthly variance reporting.
• Develop KPIs and scorecards; manage ad-hoc reporting.
• Ensure data accuracy and validity.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, Account Management, Onsite Finance Partners, and accounting teams.
• Assist stakeholders to meet cost and efficiency targets.
• Participate in decision meetings; manage expectations.
• Design templates and data collection for ad-hoc reporting.
• Prepare summary presentations for management decisions.
• Define reporting requirements and IT design for new reports.
• Maintain updated process documentation.

Skills

FP&A experience

Accounting principles

MS Office

Workday

Adaptive Planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

CA/CWA/CIMA/ACCA

MBA in Finance or M.Com

Tools

MS Office Suite

Workday

Adaptive Planning

Job description

Main responsibilities

Prepare or deliver -

• The budget and forecasting process at maximum detailed level with consultation with stakeholder.
• The standard reports for managements with insights and analytics
• Detailed Revenue Analysis and variance reporting on monthly basis.
• KPIs to measure business performance and performance scorecards prepared by team, Manage ad-hoc reporting requirements.
• Valid and accurate data points
• Work with the stakeholders, Account Management team, Onsite Finance Business Partners, accounting team.
• Assist the stakeholders to deliver their cost and efficiency targets.
• Meet or exceed the stakeholder expectations and participate to all decision making/review meetings.
• Design templates and data collection to prepare the ad-hoc management reporting requirements.
• Prepare summary presentations to support the management decision making process.
• Support the Business Partner to evaluate the reporting and analytics requirements and to create the design definition of reports
• Ensure the process documentations are updated with changes as per the plan
• Prepare reporting design and requirement documentation for IT to develop new reports for Business Finance functions.

Key experience & Skills

• Relevant 4-10 years of experience in FP&A/Business Finance function. Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Qualified accountant with 4-6 years or / Semi Qualified Accountant (CA/CWA/CIMA/ACCA ) or MBA in Finance/M.Com with 6+ years of total experience.
• Excellent knowledge in MS tools.
• Hands on experience in Workday and Adaptive Planning would be added advantage.
• Financial risk and opportunity tracking and reporting.
• Stakeholder management
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills to ensure completion of multiple activities within tight reporting deadlines.