Senior Financial Analyst

Ascendion; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Financial Analyst to join our finance team in a hybrid setup across Chennai, Vadodara, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The role centers on budgeting, forecasting and delivering executive dashboards to support strategic decisions.

You will partner with business units, prepare monthly P&L, analyze variances, and report metrics such as utilization, cost per FTE and delivery costs using MS Excel and Power BI. The candidate should hold CA or MBA Finance with 3-5 years of experience.

Qualifications

• CA or MBA Finance with 3-5 years in financial reporting and MIS.
• IT services background is preferred.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Power BI and executive dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Be a liaison between business and finance for queries and data requests.
• Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis to support decisions.
• Prepare monthly P&L and report key metrics like utilization and costs.
• Consolidate data from finance, HR and ops to generate insights and dashboards.
• Monitor performance, explain variances and track sales/booking metrics.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Power BI

Power Query

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

CA / MBA Finance

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

MS Excel

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title

Financial Analyst

Location

Vadodara/ Bengaluru/ Hyderabad/ Chennai (Hybrid)

Shift

US Shift (6:30pm - 3:30am IST)

Responsibilities

• Be a Liaison between business and finance and be the first point of contact for business in addressing their queries
• Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
• Prepare monthly P&L reports, report range of operational and financial metrics like offshoring, utilization, Span of control, blended rate, cost per FTE, Cost of delivery to track performance
• Ability to optimize, compress and consolidate multi-dimensional base data provided by finance, HR, operations team and generate insightful reports, analytics and metrics
• Analyze monthly performance data and identify business reasons for the shortfall in performance
• Compare against benchmark operational and financial metrics, identify leaders and laggards
• Monitor pipeline data for data sanctity and ensure pipeline information is accurate and up to date. Analyze and report periodically to vertical leaders on average time to close the deal, ageing analysis, dormant opportunities, opportunities with incorrect data and other sales performance metrics including book to bill ratio, sales coverage.
• Track and report periodic movement in sales pipeline and take ownership of monthly forecasting exercise for Business units

Requirements

• Qualified CA/ MBA Finance with 3 - 5 years of experience in financial reporting, MIS and preparing executive dashboards
• Must have IT Services background
• Prior financial reporting experience a plus
• Proficient in MS Excel, Power BI, Power Query
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, prior experience in directly managing analytics requirement of Executive Leadership Team