Senior Lead - Technology Strategy & Planning Analyst
Function: Technology
Reports To: Head of Technology Operations
Location: Begaluru/Pune/Chennai
Level: Senior Lead (Individual Contributor)

About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Analyst to serve as a trusted analytical partner to the Head of Technology Operations and senior technology leadership. This role sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations, and is responsible for bringing rigor and clarity to how we plan, forecast, and govern the spend on technology across a sprawling ecosystem of corporate systems, infrastructure, applications, and third-party vendors.
This is a high-visibility role for someone who thrives on untangling complexity, building structure where none exists, and translating dense financial and operational data into crisp executive narratives.

What You'll Do Financial Forecasting & Planning
- Own the end-to-end financial forecasting process for the Technology function, including monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles, as well as multi-year strategic plans.




- Build and maintain integrated forecast models that capture run-the-business costs, change-the-business investments, capitalized vs. expensed spend, and headcount.
- Partner with Finance, FP&A;, and Technology leaders to reconcile variances, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend course corrections. Capacity & Resource Planning
- Develop capacity planning frameworks that align technology demand (projects, products, run activities) with supply (internal headcount, contractors, vendor resources).

Translate workforce and infrastructure plans into financial impact and surface trade-offs for leadership decisions.
- Build scenario models to stress-test capacity assumptions against shifting business priorities.

Disparate Systems & Data Integration
- Reconcile financial, operational, and vendor data sourced from multiple disparate corporate systems (e.g., ERP, ITSM, HRIS, procurement, CMDB, time

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