Role

Act as a strategic finance business partner to the entity and its functions, leading the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), supporting Integrated Business Planning (IBP), strengthening financial governance, and delivering decision-oriented insights. The role will also continue and manage the finance digital transformation program through analytical tools, self-service reporting, and responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.

Key Responsibilities

- Entity AOP, Forecasting & Performance Management
- Lead the entity-wide Annual Operating Plan (AOP) cycle end to end, including process design, timelines, assumptions, functional submissions, consolidation, reviews, challenge, and finalization.
- Partner with functional leaders to translate business priorities into robust financial plans and measurable outcomes.
- Track monthly performance against plan, analyze variances, identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions to protect the full-year landing.
- Maintain rolling forecasts and provide clear, forward-looking perspectives to management.
- Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
- Partner with functions as part of the Integrated Business Planning program, bringing financial rigor and a balanced view of growth, cost, capacity, and profitability.




- Connect operational assumptions with financial outcomes and support cross-functional alignment on plans, trade-offs, and actions.
- Finance Digital Transformation & Analytics
- Continue and manage the finance digital transformation program, with a focus on scalable analytics, automation, and process simplification.
- Develop and enhance analytical solutions using Power BI and similar tools, transitioning management reports to visual dashboards and self-service reporting.
- Improve data quality, transparency, and adoption of digital reporting across stakeholders.
- Actively embrace relevant industry and technology trends, including practical and responsible adoption of AI to improve finance processes, analytics, and decision support.
- Executive Reporting & Decision Support
- Prepare high-quality ad-hoc presentation decks and analyses for the CFO, CEO, Group, and other senior stakeholders.
- Develop business cases, scenario analyses, and other value-added decision perspectives for strategic and operational initiatives.
- Translate complex financial and operational data into concise insights, explicit choices, and actionable recommendations.

📌 Sr. Manager - FP&A (Bengaluru)
🏢 HSBC
📍 Bengaluru