Assistant Manager FP&A CoE

Position –Assistant Manager FP&A CoE

Location – Bangalore

Role Profile

This role is responsible for financial and commercial support under Infrastructure and Cloud, assisting senior management in achieving budgeted and strategic financial goals. Providing analytical and financial modelling support in the context of a variety of key financial indicators and associated analysis and reporting.

Job description

• Enabling the senior management to achieve the targeted financial results by providing adequate business and commercial support
• Work with local & global counterparts to build and provide tools/reports & analysis that effectively address the information requirements of the business finance organization as well as other business counterparts
• Review work adjacencies to identify and highlight scope of using in-house financial information analytics capabilities to provide fast, actionable & accurate analysis

• Run month end processes including transaction tagging, generating reporting, variance analysis and commentary to forecast and budget across all FSVs
• Understanding and explaining key variances to budget and forecast in a succinct manner to finance/non finance colleagues
• Understanding of how contracts should be recognised and ensuring our actuals and forecast match the recognition, and challenging contract assumptions where appropriate
• Working closely with controllership to identify any issues with accounting recognition of contracts
• Ensure approrpriate recognition of 3rd party contracts takes place in the GL & advise Engineering teams appropriately
• Working closely with Procurement/Vendor Management on commercial and financial support of contract renewals
• Build an understanding of Engineering including the key supplier contracts
• Analysing contract recognition, and working with the business on maintaining a monthly/FY forecast, highlighting risks and opportunities where appropriate
• Producing and maintaining reporting including vendor analysis
• Ensuring actuals align with our internal Profit Centre/Cost Centre structure – working closely with I&C FP&A where appropriate
• Produce ad-hoc analysis where appropriate

• Time-zone overlap with global counterparts, as warranted

• Post Graduate - MBA, CA/ICWA
• Preferably 5+ years post qualification in FP&A and/or management reporting/ decision support, Finance partnering, Business support domains

• Inquisitive mentality – The want to understand reasoning behind variances. Analysing data, taking a step back and understanding why there are variances and digging deeper to find out more information proactively
• Ability to analyse and provide insight in a way that is easy to communicate and follow
• Proactivity – Finding out information and data to aid business decisions
• Forward looking mentality using data, analysis and insights to form conclusions
• Continuous improvement, changing processes to make processes more efficient
• Displays curiosity to understand & partner the business / technology better
• Experienced professional with in-depth knowledge of technical team or specialism
• Pre requisite - hands on experience with planning/reporting Systems – Oracle, Business Intelligence, SAP Business Objects, Hyperion and/or other OLAP tools
• Hands on experience on ERPs like, SAP, Oracle
• Strong background in data analytics and providing actionable insights
• Proven track record to work with multiple partners across time zones
• Excellent Knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, Power Point and MS Access; familiarity with Visual Basic programming for Excel/Access and Power BI would be a plus
• Strong interpersonal skills – both written and verbal
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Self Starter with ability to learn quickly and & work without oversight
• Great teammate, result oriented and well organized
• Ability to handle meaningful priorities systematically
• A curious mentality with an ability to understand business context and envisage business flows

• Assessment of workflow to mitigate risk & ability to identify & articulate Vertical & Horizontal adjacencies
• Proven ability to quickly adapt the following
• Understanding the business context including an understanding of the products and services offerings and their user profiles
• Understanding of environment, challenges to business and business strategies and ability
• Understanding current priorities, areas of focus and initiatives/ internal transformations that impact the business

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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