Overview
Lead the Finance Planning & Analysis function within the India Capability Center (ICC), delivering high-quality planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision support to global and regional stakeholders.
Position the ICC as a strategic finance partner by moving beyond transactional reporting toward forward-looking insights, scalable analytics, and actionable recommendations.
Build a high-performing FP&A; team with strong business acumen, financial discipline, digital capability, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Responsibilities
Own and coordinate annual operating plans, budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly outlooks for the assigned global businesses or functions.
Lead monthly and quarterly performance reviews, explaining actuals versus plan and forecast, identifying root causes, and recommending corrective actions.
Develop driver-based models, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses to assess business risks, opportunities, investments, and strategic choices.
Translate complex financial and operational data into concise executive-level insights, narratives,



and decision recommendations.
Partner with global functions including finance, commercial, operations, supply chain, HR, and other functional leaders to improve decisions, resource allocation, and performance.
Partner with ICC Controls team to ensure accurate billing communication and tracking to the Regions.
Clear tracking to Compensation & Benefits and other costs vs AOP/Forecast with explicit COC for drivers for variances along with Risks and Opportunities analysis
Establish consistent KPIs, definitions, reporting standards, calendars, and governance across the ICC planning process.
Strengthen forecast accuracy through disciplined assumptions, business-driver analysis, challenge processes, and regular risk-and-opportunity reviews.
Ensure management reporting is accurate, timely, reconciled to source systems and the general ledger, and supported by clear controls and documentation.
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