Job Description

The candidate would be responsible to drive key deliverables in relation to financial reporting, analysis, Budgeting/Forecasting, and Client reporting for Northern Europe markets and cluster in collaboration with the market commercial finance and FP&A leads.
The candidate will be part of the PRCoE (Planning & Reporting Center of Excellence) team based out of Bangalore. As part of this role, the candidate will be required to work with the NE Cluster and Market FP&A team to drive regional reporting & FP&A requirements.
The role will be based out of Bangalore, candidate must be/relocate to Bangalore.

Job Title: Senior Analyst - Planning & Reporting

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Key Accountabilities:

• Manage key deliverables during the month-close process as per agreed timelines along with ensuring delivery of quality results to key stakeholders.
• Supporting the NE markets in the budget, quarterly & monthly forecast submission, and challenging markets on assumptions, appropriate use of account lines, brands, functions, segments, and classification of exceptional items.
• Deliver best-in-class financial information and analysis to the NE Cluster FP&A head, providing timely, sound, and clear financial analysis of current results and insights on impacts to future performance.
• Partner with the Northern Europe market FP&A to drive analytics, compliance, quality, and timeliness in month-end reporting.
• Assist in preparing periodic (monthly/quarterly/annual) reporting pack submissions and review of the same including performance dashboards & presentations.
• Challenge the market on the appropriate use of account lines, brands, functions & segments
• Monitoring & providing solutions on the Forecast & Budget reporting and data modeling to analyze the movements.
• Identify automation requirements and collaborate with the Automation team to help deliver automation solutions.
• Manage ad hoc analysis requests from the onshore team, cascade crucial information to markets, and drive compliance.
• Also, as part of the PRCoE team do testing / UAT of new developments, and maintain QA checks on existing reports.

Professional Skills and Qualification:

• MBA finance with 6-8 years of experience in Captive shared services /Industry handling accounting, financial analysis, planning & reporting.
• Good analytical skills including Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet review.
• Exposure to SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) & SAC
• A candidate who has an analytical bent of mind and provides insights when distributing a report or analysis & can tell the story behind the data in the view.
• Strong understanding of the concept of materiality in terms of work performed and the audience it is to be presented to.
• Excellent communication skills, as this role involves interactions with key stakeholders in Dentsu leadership in the markets.
• Should demonstrate a high level of responsibility and commitment to the assigned activities.
• Agile and flexible to changing and ad-hoc requirements.

Location: Bangalore

Brand: Bcoe

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

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