Job Purpose: [ FINANCIAL ANALYST- Whitefield, Bangalore]- WORK FROM OFFICE The Finance Analyst plays a key role in supporting the companys strategic and operational objectives. Working closely with the FP&A Manager, the analyst will provide insightful financial analysis, assist in budgeting and forecasting processes, and contribute to management reporting. Job Responsibilities: Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the planning cycle by building, maintaining, and improving Excel-based financial models to consolidate budgets and forecasts. Advanced Excel Analysis: Use advanced Excel functions to analyze financial and operational data. Create robust, scalable models that provide meaningful insight into business performance. Reporting: Prepare and automate monthly management reports and dashboards using Excel and/or Power BI. Ensure accuracy and consistency across datasets. Business Partnering: Work closely with department heads to gather assumptions, explain variances, and translate financial data into business actions. Performance Monitoring: Track key financial and operational KPIs; highlight risks, opportunities, and trends. Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance current tools and FP&A processes. Help drive a culture of data accuracy and financial discipline. Preferred candidate profile Education : Bachelors degree in finance, Accounting or related field (MBA preferred) Experience : - 3 to 5 years of finance and accounting experience with progressive responsibility, especially with exposure to multi-entity multi-country trading businesses. - SAP experience - Knowledge of International Accounting Standards Competencies / Skills : - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel - Proficiency in PowerBI and Powerpoint - Strong communication skills and ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner. - Attention to detail; Relationship building Additional or Desirable Qualifications : CA Inter is a plus

Key responsibilities: Envisioning and planning, monitoring project progress and team members' contributions and conducting project meetings, Identifying appropriate templates or approaches for the deliverables and projects, Contributing to analytics deliverables (reports, dashboards, data marts, data warehouse, marketing, or training documentation (such as technical specifications, use cases, user guides, technical presentations, communication for decision makers etc.), Validating deliverables against requirements, Conducting software testing, Holds responsibility of one to three (four stretch) projects simultaneously. Contributes to pre-sales by high level requirement understanding, approach design, estimations and building proposals. Preferred candidate profile Has experience of successfully managing and contributing to a fair number of software development projects (preferably leading a team or a part of it). Has in-depth knowledge of database design, SSIS, SSAS, reporting tools. Fair knowledge of cloud services like SQL Azure, Dataverse, SQL Datawarehouse Has capability to gather solution requirements, build detailed specifications (functional and/or technical) and work with the customers/users. BE/BTech/MCA or equivalent formal education/ training with above average scores. Interest and broad understanding in several advanced topics like data modelling, analytics architecture and relevant business contexts (functional processes, sales, marketing etc.) and technology trends (competing products and their strengths, new versions and their advantages etc.)