Job Description

Analyst FP&ALocation:Gurgaon, IndiaJob Category:FinancePOSITION SUMMARY:This position supports FP&A team to conduct complex financial analysis in several primary areas: Financial Planning, Financial Analysis, Financial Administration and Administration of Financial Planning Systems. Responsibilities also include ensuring compliance with all financial policies of the company, and fully analyze moderately complex company operations to identify profit improvement opportunities and assist Manager FP&A.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned beyond the core functions listed below.Accounting and Closing:

• Coordinate with sites across India to ensure monthly closing is completed and validated within the timeline
• Provide guidelines/coaching in relation to reporting requirements when sites have new business module or have key business changes, monitor the implementation, as well as continuous improvements.
• Lead accounting/reporting consistency implementation with guide from Corporate or regional finance leaders/self-initiation per continuous improvement needs, including data validation, data mapping, training, developing canned reports, design normalization solutions as well as monitoring the implementation

Finance Planning, Forecast, And Reporting and Analysis:

• Prepare and submit flash reports to global leadership team and regional leadership team
• Coordinate financial review meetings; work with each BU to deliver accurate reporting and financial forecast.
• Prepares consolidated regular (monthly) financial reports, analysis, bridges
• Provide management with insights into drivers of revenue, risks, and opportunities as well as variance analysis of actual, prior year and forecast
• Establish monthly/Qtrly business review material template for sites and support material preparation for regional leadership team
• Establish monthly KPI tracker / dash board reports for regional and country team
• Improve current process on reporting and analysis, to adopt new tools, to automate/reduce manual processes
• Coordinate Strategic Plans and lead annual budget / quarterly forecast process include but not limited to below
• Design budget and forecast schedule for the whole region, establish template, publish key assumptions, determine and submit accounting changes proposal, collect and consolidate sites' submissions, prepare overlay loading, and analyze and comment on the reporting of preliminary and final packs.
• Support functional leaders, coordinate functional costs forecast, budgeting, actual reporting, and analysis at India level, design customization reports as well as lead harmonization projects requested by functional leaders.
• Complete budget/forecast packs and key P&L components analysis(Pricing/FX/Mix/IC markup elimination/Inflation/CI/SGA) per Corporate timeline

• Coordinate and consolidate daily & weekly sales reports for India
• Provide administration support in relation to BI to India Finance users and provide trainings as necessary
• Coordinate and consolidate JV reporting requests for India as well as provide technical support to sites finance teams in relation to GAAP conversion

Others:

• Coordinate and consolidate risk and exposure reports
• Participate in the internal control and compliance activities, including SOX testing/review, Control Self-Assessment and Balance Sheet Review as necessary
• Assists with ad hoc regional finance projects when required

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Business or Accounting degree
• 4+ years of experience in FP&A, regional exposure, accounting / costing experience a plus
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Must be willing to travel.
• Ability to provide concurrent oversight to multiple resources and projects.
• Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives.

REQUIRED SKILLS: * Manufacturing background and knowledge in ERP & BI, with proven skills in the areas of planning, operational excellence & analytics, and strong business acumen.

• Ability to meet deadlines and demonstrates effective time management
• Strong skill in HFM (Consolidation & Planning tool) and Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong communicator - both written and verbal in technical and non-technical environment
• Proactive, self-motivated. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and follow through to meet objectives
• Works well under pressure, demonstrates flexibility in work style to accommodate changing priorities and fixed deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skill and team player. Ability to build collaborative relationships cross hierarchy, cross function and cross region.
• Excellent business ethics and integrity
• Demonstrated ability to manage high pressure situations manages conflict and prioritizes workloads.
• Self-directed and motivated.

Gates Corporation