Role: Lead - FP&A;

Skill: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;)

Overall Experience: 5 to 10 Years

Shift Timing: 4:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Location: Kolkata

Education

- Minimum 15 years of regular, full-time education (10 + 2 + 3)
- Non-technical graduation in finance & accounts stream: B.com / M.com / MBA Finance
- Preferred Certifications: CA / CMA / CPA / Lean / Six Sigma

Must Have Skills:

- Financial Modeling & Forecasting
- Analytical Thinking & Data Interpretation
- Business Acumen & Strategic Insight

Good To Have Skills:

- Advanced Excel & BI Tools
- Oracle, Hyperion
- Presentation & Storytelling Skills

Role Purpose:

- The purpose of the role is to oversee and manage all the aspects of fundamental financial planning and analysis and prepare the reports on financial performance tailored to the needs of leadership
- The purpose of the role is also to analyse data and understands the financial data of the organisation in order to perform variance analysis and identify key causes of business variances for performance measurement

Key Accountabilities:

- Prepare and gather data to support development of financial assessments and scenario analysis
- Insert rate case filing inputs
- Create Budget-to-Actual for Balance sheet
- Create Budget-to-Actual for Profit and loss
- Collect data and upload data into Hyperion
- Variance Analysis
- Creating meaningful graphs for customer senior management use

Technical Capabilities / Skills & Technical Descriptors:

Mandatory Skillsets:

- Prepare MIS reports and dash boards




- Spearhead periodical reviews and calls with stakeholders (Internal & external)
- Exposure to Financial Analysis
- Valuable exposure into escalation management and having prior experience into performance management.
- Exposure to IFRS
- Ability to handle audits (Internal & external)
- Identifying the process gaps and provide solutions
- Effective management of SLAs & KPIs

Additional Desirable skills:

- Certifications like Six sigma green belt / Train the Trainer will be an added advantage
- KT / Transition experience will be an added advantage
- Managing cross functional training within the team

Systems:

- Develop a moderate level of proficiency in the following systems:
- MS Office suite.
- Knowledge of Excel macro and MS access database creation
- Good exposure in tools (Oracle, Essbase, Hyperion, etc)

Soft skills:

- Shows genuine empathy to customers experiencing connection difficulties
- Ability to handle difficult customer conversations and work under pressure
- Actively identifies customer cues and responds appropriately
- Able to communicate effectively across a group with diverse backgrounds
- High energy, self-motivation with a high degree of accountability
- Team leadership and client facing skills
- Strategic orientation
- Collaboration & influencing

Other Requirements:

- Candidate should be ready to work in ANZ shift (2 AM to 12 PM)
- Should possess a positive attitude to support the business
- Should be flexible for working hours
- Advance excel knowledge is mandatory
- 5 days work from office is mandatory

📌 Financial Planning Analyst lead (Kolkata)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Kolkata