DENTSU - Associate Manager / Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description (Key responsibilities) :

• Delivers accurate and reliable reports from specific tasks during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting processes.
• Delivery of Month End closure (MEC) activities including P&L and Balance Sheet review.
• Handle / Manage month end process deliverables as per global time lines along with ensuring delivery of quality & timely results to key stakeholders.
• Make analysis, dashboards, KPI reports and other key process metrics.
• Liaise with various cross function teams to ensure appropriate reporting including Inter-company Reporting.
• Ensure accurate delivery of BPC reporting across Interco, Finance, and other required applications.
• Ad-hoc and variation analysis.
• Lead budget and forecast preparation requirements and manage the BPC / SAC submissions.
• Develop & maintain effective partnership with stake holders to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with the team / reporting manager as required.
• Responsible for maintaining updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), dashboards preparation and ensuring audit trail.
• Deliver timely and error-free reports, KPI dashboards, non-compliance reports and other key process metrics to the stakeholders.
• Be a part of continuous improvement initiatives (CII) by identifying process lapses, offering best possible solution and lead Automation Projects (as & when identified).
• Maintains a working relationship with other teams and stakeholders in other finance pillars.
• Provides technical analysis and advice to key partners appropriate to experience, and working within the team to solve complex problems.
• Supports control and reporting compliance including support in preparing technical accounting memos.
• Supports the audit process, liaising with external audit on appropriate workstreams.
• Supports continual improvements in quality and efficiency of financial reporting processes, in collaboration with the wider finance team.

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