Description
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Essential Responsibilities:
- Support planning and forecasting processes
- Review business performance on regular cadences (weekly, monthly, quarterly)Collaborate with stakeholders to gather inputs and summarize insights
- Produce executive-level presentations
- Work closely with the finance and technical teams to drive process and system improvements
- Facilitate discussions with various stakeholders, manage expectations, and collaborate cross-functionally
- Consult with finance leads to review and discuss key issues, risks, and dependencies for assigned initiatives
- Document and escalate potential risks/issues, assist in developing mitigation strategies, and support their implementation
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Own the Opex planning, forecasting, and budgeting cycle for Corporate/Enabling Functions (e.g., Legal, HR, Finance, Corporate Real Estate, IT), ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide financial targets
- Partner directly with senior functional leaders to translate business priorities into financial plans, headcount models, and investment cases, acting as a trusted financial advisor
- Deliver clear, concise, and compelling storytelling on financial performance, key cost drivers, and variances to executive and cross-functional audiences
- Drive standardization, automation, and process improvement across Opex reporting workstreams, leveraging tools such as SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), and other planning platforms
- Lead monthly close, variance analysis (budget vs. actual/forecast), and headcount tracking, proactively flagging risks and opportunities before they surface in results
- Build and maintain robust financial models and business cases to support strategic decisions, cost-optimization initiatives, and ad hoc leadership requests
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Controllership, Corporate FP&A;, Legal, HR/People, and business stakeholders to ensure data integrity, consistency, and a single source of truth across reporting
- Represent Finance in leadership forums,
demonstrating strong executive presence and the ability to influence and articulate recommendations to senior stakeholders
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of progressive FP&A; or corporate finance experience, ideally within a fintech, financial services, or technology setting, with direct exposure to Corporate/Enabling Functions
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or professional certification (CPA/CFA) a plus
- Hands-on experience with SAP and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) required; familiarity with additional planning tools (Tableau, Power BI) is a plus
- Demonstrated experience managing Opex budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for a large, matrixed organization
- Strong executive presence with the ability to confidently present to and influence senior leadership, including comfort operating with ambiguity and competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex financial data into clear, actionable narratives for non-finance audiences
- Self-starter who can work autonomously in a fast-paced, global environment while collaborating effectively across time zones and functions
Subsidiary:
Pay Pal
Travel Percent:
0
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For the majority of employees,
Pay Pal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the Pay Pal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.
Our Benefits:
At Pay Pal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
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Belonging at Pay Pal:
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📌 Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (India)
🏢 Paypal
📍 India