The role will be expected to support the FPA team in providing reliable, timely and value-add analysis in respect of the regular reporting and planning cycles as well as ad-hoc analysis on new initiatives. At the same time, the role will drive a deeper understanding of the FPA Team, helping to explain and analyse performance as well as identification of risks and opportunities. This will include a greater focus of key performance drivers, such as Pipeline, Client Revenue and Profitability Headcount

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Main Responsibilities

- Regular routine activities
- Co-ordinate and communicate all FPA requirements to the Service Line Teams ensuring timely submissions and support as necessary
- Managing Budgeting, Forecasting and Actual Month End both PL and NWC and performing variance analysis, trending analysis and share business narratives including visualisations
- Follow-up with the Service Lines to ensure any actions are followed up and implemented
- Review and analyse Pipeline trends, identifying risks or opportunities, with reference to Salesforce
- Review and analyse Headcount trends, identifying risks or opportunities and driving alignment to Workday
- Ensure changes to FPA requirements are fully understood and adopted by the Service Lines
- Support UKI FPA and Commercial Finance team in preparation of analysis and presentation material, including extracting and analysing data in response to any ad-hoc analysis
- Support the external audit process in providing analysis on the FPA Team
- Development improvement activities




- Managing SQL database and working towards streamlining and making the data collection process more productive
- Managing building PowerBI dashboards; exploring opportunities to create further value add reviews
- Drive user usage of SAC, across the Service Lines and target go to resource for core financial analysis
- Exploring and driving improvements in data automation and analysis through use of AI or other tech led solutions for efficiency
- Link into Client Profitability project to improve accuracy of underlying data and utilise outputs to identify opportunities

Professional Skills

- MBA/ Finance graduate with 6-9 years in Reporting and FPA
- Experience of BI, Planning Consolidation Systems
- Experience with SQL for querying and managing financial models, reports, and dashboards using Power BI, SQL, and Excel large financial datasets; ability to integrate data sources for enhanced reporting
- Proficiency in Power BI, including DAX and data modeling, for building interactive dashboards and financial reports
- Demonstrable experience of informed review and analysis of results and forecasts
- Ability to clearly present work and analysis
- Problem-solving and analytical mindset
- Proactive approach and able to show initiative
- Excellent communication skills, confident with working across functions and levels
- Able to rapidly adapt to changing UKI environment as well as wider Group landscape and requirements
- Advanced Excel and Modelling skills

📌 Senior Analyst - Planning and Reporting (Bengaluru)
🏢 Merkle Science
📍 Bengaluru