Sr. Analyst | Finance Business Partner

Shashwath Solution; Dadri; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Shashwath Solution is seeking a finance professional to manage month-end close activities, deliver accurate financial reporting and assess pricing and contractual risks. You will lead forecasting, budgeting, and risk analysis at the account level while ensuring compliance with revenue recognition and SOX controls.

The role emphasizes collaboration with account managers and delivery teams, driving margin improvements and supporting audits and controllership efforts.

Qualifications

• Experience in month-end close processes and financial close calendars.
• Ability to prepare accurate financial reports reflecting account performance.
• Familiarity with revenue recognition principles and SOX controls.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate completion of month end close activities.
• Provide financial reports reflecting account performance.
• Review contracts and pricing clauses for financial terms and risks.
• Identify and analyze risks with solutions for closure.
• Lead planning cycles: strategic plans, budgets, forecasts.
• Understand cost bases at account level including labor and non-labor.
• Maintain forecast accuracy through modelling and analysis for decision making.
• Drive forecast processes and maintain supporting files and backlog view.
• Monitor unbilled, deferred revenue and revenue at risk tasks.
• Prepare risk reports and track items to closure.
• Support cash collection through timely billing at account level.
• Assist in margin improvement initiatives with the account.

Skills

Month-end close

Financial reporting

Forecasting

Risk analysis

Financial modelling

SOX compliance

Revenue recognition

Cash collection

Budgeting

Variance analysis

Stakeholder management

Internal audits

Job description

:The key responsibilities and areas of focus are:

• Ensure timely and accurate completion of all month end close activities in line with the account and DXC reporting calendar.


• Providing financial reports that accurately reflect financial performance of the account.


• Review the Contracts/Master Service Agreement in terms of Financial and Pricing clauses (such as COLA, price changes, volume commitments etc) termination, SLA clauses and benchmarking related activities.


• Identifying and analyzing the risk and assessing the impact on the account and the organization in signing up the clauses and providing logical solutions & alternative positions for the effective closure.


• Lead all the planning cycles (Strategic Planning, Operating plans, forecasts etc) with high level of accuracy and thorough understanding of the business dynamics in collaboration with the business at the account level.


• Ensure with the CP a complete understanding of the cost at the account level, including the basis of labor charges including utilization and non labor charges.


• Ensure forecast accuracy at the account level through financial modelling and analysis and providing decision making information to business, to include risk and operations related to the forecast


• Drive the forecast process with the account level and maintain working files and models to support the process including view of backlog & sales pipeline.


• Monitoring Unbilled, deferred and Revenue at Risk related activities.


• Preparation of risk reports, assessing top line impacts and tracking the risk items till closure.


• Support optimization of cash collection through timely billing at an account level.


• Work to support the CP and Finance Manager to drive margin improvement initiatives with the account.

Control & Compliance

• Manage and lead ad-hoc projects ensuring compliance with all Revenue Recognition principles, AFM guidelines and adherence to SOX controls and compliance.


• Participate in Balance Sheet Reviews, Asset Impairment Reviews, EAC reviews on a monthly and/or quarterly basis.


• Support and provide information as necessary to finance support functions such as controllership and SOX compliance teams as and when requested.


• Participate and support internal and external audits as necessary.


• Maintain a strong control environment for assigned areas.

Behavioral Traits

• Build and maintain productive, beneficial relationships with Account Managers and delivery management and other internal groups.


• Assist operations managers on financial processes, systems, and the financial impact of business decisions.


• Provides in-depth business margin insights and analysis by translating variances in financial and non-financial KPIs into actions.


• Build strong relationship with Finance leadership and other business functions across the organization.


• Partner with deliver/sell and other stakeholders to resolve various operational/strategic level challenges faced on the ground.


• Participate in the training initiative across DSS teams and ensure at least one training session is taken up (as a trainer) during the financial year.

Locations : B'luru/Chennai/Noida/Pune/Mumbai/Kolkata/Hyd)