Manager Finance - FP&A

Prodapt Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodapt Solutions in Chennai seeks a Finance professional responsible for the controllership of the business unit, translating operational metrics into clear financial objectives and overseeing reporting, forecasting and budgeting across the organization.

You will interact with multiple stakeholders to understand business decisions and their financial impact, drive cost control, pricing modelling for opportunities, and support ERP upgrades and cross-functional coordination.

Qualifications

• MBA Finance or CA with 2–5 years of relevant experience.
• Pricing and commercial proposal modelling experience for new business opportunities.
• Experience in corporate FP&A processes: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix management structure.
• Ability to anticipate opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Drive annual operating plan, budget, forecasts and actuals for business units.
• Provide analytical support by explaining PL, balance sheet and cash flow impacts.
• Run analytics on financials and create dashboards to track performance vs targets.
• Model pricing and commercial proposals for new opportunities with sales/delivery teams.
• Review deals and analyze actuals vs initial bids.
• Update grid salary costs for proposals of new opportunities.
• Explain variances monthly to function units and ensure forecasting accuracy.
• Partner with finance teams to improve processes and control costs; track KPIs and drivers.
• Validate monthly costs/provisions across line items.
• Forecast cash and manage DSO; support ERP upgrades as needed.
• Coordinate with Sales, PM, Finance, and global delivery heads.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Matrix management

Problem-solving

Forecasting & budgeting

Education

MBA Finance from a top tier institute

CA

Job description

Overview

Responsible for the controllership of the business unit. The incumbent will help look at every operational metric and able to translate to a financial objective. This role includes various facets of reporting, forecasting budgeting for the organization. Constant interaction with various stakeholders to understand the business decisions and financial impact of the same

Responsibilities

• Drive preparation of annual operating plan, budget, forecasts and actuals for business units and organization.
• Providing analytical support to business teams by helping to understand PL, balance sheet and cash flow from a business perspective and impact of financial/operational decisions on the group.
• Running all analytics on financials and parameters dashboard creation for board and senior management to create visibility on performance vs targets.
• Pricing and commercial proposal modelling for new business opportunities, based on detailed interactions with sales delivery teams.
• Detailed review of all deals deep analysis of actuals vs the initial bids/proposal
• Periodical review/updation of grid salary costs assumed for proposals made for new business opportunities.
• Interacting with function units/business units, explaining the variances monthly, sorting out the queries and ensuring forecasting accuracy.
• Partnering with Finance Business teams to execute improvement points to bring efficiency and control over process and cost parameters. Track and highlight appropriate performance measures,
• key performance indicators, and associated drivers.
• Validation and accuracy of monthly cost /provision across line items
• Cash Forecasting and DSO control.
• Support implementation and upgrade of ERP software as required.
• Coordination across functions including Sales Team, Project Management, Finance, global delivery heads.

Requirements

• MBA Finance from a top tier institute or CA with 2 to 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in Pricing and commercial proposal modelling for new business opportunities also updation of grid salary costs for proposals made for new business opportunities.
• Experience in corporate FPA processes such as business partnering, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix management structure
• Ability to anticipate and identify opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiency