DENTSU - Associate Manager/Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description (Key responsibilities):

- Delivers accurate and reliable reports from specific tasks during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting processes.

- Delivery of Month End closure (MEC) activities including P&L and Balance Sheet review.

- Handle/Manage month end process deliverables as per global time lines along with ensuring delivery of quality & timely results to key stakeholders.

- Make analysis, dashboards, KPI reports and other key process metrics.

- Liaise with various cross function teams to ensure appropriate reporting including Inter-company Reporting.

- Ensure accurate delivery of BPC reporting across Interco, Finance, and other required applications.

- Ad-hoc and variation analysis.

- Lead budget and forecast preparation requirements and manage the BPC/SAC submissions.

- Develop & maintain effective partnership with stake holders to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with the team / reporting manager as required.

- Responsible for maintaining updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), dashboards preparation and ensuring audit trail.

- Deliver timely and error-free reports, KPI dashboards, non-compliance reports and other key process metrics to the stakeholders.

- Be a part of continuous improvement initiatives (CII) by identifying process lapses, offering best possible solution and lead Automation Projects (as & when identified).

- Maintains a working relationship with other teams and stakeholders in other finance pillars.

- Provides technical analysis and advice to key partners appropriate to experience, and working within the team to solve complex problems.

- Supports control and reporting compliance including support in preparing technical accounting memos.

- Supports the audit process, liaising with external audit on appropriate workstreams.

- Supports continual improvements in quality and efficiency of financial reporting processes, in collaboration with the wider finance team.

Professional Skills:

- MBA with 5 to 7 years of post-qualification experience in FP&A and Reporting activities like budgeting and variation analysis, Group Reporting, Financial Analysis is a must.

- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint is a must.

- Knowledge of SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation), SAC (SAP Analytical Cloud) and Power BI tool will be an added advantage.

- Strong communication skills (verbal & written).

- Able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders, across different regions and levels.

- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

- Demonstrate high level of responsibility and commitment to the assigned activities.

- Agile and flexible to changing needs and adhoc requirements.