Financial Planning Manager

• Vision & Strategy Plan (VSP): Assist in creating a rolling three-year VSP, detailing revenue and profit expectations, and collaborate with marketing, business development, and sales teams.
• Annual Budget and Planning: Collaborate with the Executive team to develop annual budgets and plans for business units.
• Sales Incentive Plans: Collaborate on the preparation of sales incentive plans.
• Strategic Business Partner: Partner with the Leadership team, corporate and business unit leaders on growth and business development initiatives

• Management Reporting: Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, including variance analysis and commentary to support decision-making.
• Financial Analysis and Control: Execute requirements for financial analysis, planning, control, budgeting, and reporting systems.
• Forecasting and Trend Analysis: Generate forecasts, analyze trends, and create financial models for future planning.

• Financial Compliance: Ensure compliance with IFRS, WK Accounting Manual, and financial policies in collaboration with the finance and accounts team
• Process Improvements: Drive process improvements for efficiency and transparency in enterprise reporting.
• Management Report Enhancement: Collaborate on enhancing management reports.

• Leadership Team Participation: Actively participate in the GGM India and Finance Leadership team.
• Collaboration with Shared Services: Build relationships with shared services for financial reporting, accounting, compliance, internal controls, and taxation.
• Financial Support: Provide budgeting support, expense analysis, and decision-making support
• Market Trend Monitoring: Advise leadership on market trends affecting financial performance and recommend actions to mitigate risks or seize growth opportunities.
• Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and executing on initiatives.

• Various exciting ad hoc reporting requests for GGM India and GGM leadership
• Integral member of various Business or Finance Process Improvement Projects

• Bachelor’s degree and equivalent finance/accounting work experience
• CA / MBA

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in broad based financial related positions.
• Tagetik, Power BI or equivalent reporting software experience and proficiency are preferred.
• Ability to work closely with senior management from both finance and non-finance background.
• Proven success in being able to evaluate and understand business transactions.
• Experience in a multidivisional corporation (mid to large size corporation).

• Ability to clearly communicate concepts, research findings, issues analysis, project and evaluation results, and data interpretations
• Consulting mentality—extracting insights from very complex and/or limited information to make a recommendation to stakeholders
• Results-oriented; able to take concepts and ideas through from implementation to action.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, be proactive, and think independently, and anticipate needs related to future work.
• Highly responsive and resourceful. Positive ‘can do’ attitude and approach to problem solving
• Innovative mindset: willingness to try creative and different ways of accomplishing work.

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