Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Role Overview : The FP&A Lead will drive the company’s financial planning, analysis, and decision-support initiatives across business verticals. This role will be central to building a scalable business finance function — encompassing budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking, and real-time insights to enable leadership decision-making. The ideal candidate is hands-on, data-driven, and comfortable working in a high-growth, multi-BU environment.

Key Responsibilities :

Strategic Planning & Budgeting

Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process for the company and business units.

Partner with business and functional heads to prepare realistic financial projections and identify key drivers of growth and profitability.

Support long-range financial planning in alignment with company goals and strategic priorities.

Business Finance & Decision Support :

Act as a business partner to BU heads, providing analytical insights, variance analysis, and recommendations to improve P&L performance.

Create and manage business dashboards that enable real-time visibility into key metrics and decision-making.

Drive accountability through financial discipline, performance monitoring, and actionable insights.

Financial Modelling & Analysis

Build and maintain robust financial models covering revenue, costs, cash flow, and scenario analysis.

Support board presentations, investor decks, and management reviews with detailed yet insightful analysis.

Ensure alignment between accounting, business finance, and FP&A views to maintain one source of truth.

Leadership & Process Excellence :

Set up and strengthen FP&A processes, policies, and governance structures.

Mentor and lead a small team to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial outputs.

Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, supply chain, and strategy teams to translate numbers into business actions.

Desired Skills & Experience :

Minimum 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, or related finance roles.

Proven exposure to multi-BU environments and scaling organisations (preferably in high-growth tech, EV, or service sectors).

Strong understanding of budgeting, P&L ownership, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Demonstrated ability to build dashboards and automate reporting for business impact.

Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; working knowledge of SQL / database querying will be an added advantage.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Experience presenting to CXOs / board-level stakeholders.

Personality Traits :

High ownership and bias for action.

Data-driven and detail-oriented mindset.

Ability to balance analytical depth with business practicality.

Collaborative yet assertive in decision-making.

Comfort in ambiguity and ability to build from scratch.

Education :

CA / MBA (Finance) / CFA preferred.