About the role
BP06 – FP&A Senior Manager
Job Title: FP&A Senior Manager
Role Level: BP06 (Senior Manager)
Experience: 12-18 Years
Education:
• Minimum 15 years of regular, full-time education (10 + 2 + 3)
• Non-technical graduation and/or masters in finance & accounts stream -BCOM, MCOM, MBA in Finance, CA/ICWA or Engineering background with proven black belt or transformation expertise in Finance and Accounts processes.
Must Have Skills:
• Lean Six Sigma certified or formally trained (Black Belt preferred)
• Finance and Accounting domain experience
• Proven track record of leading and/or mentoring multiple Lean Six Sigma improvement projects
• FP&A service delivery and delivery governance
• Budgeting, forecasting and business performance reviews
• Stakeholder management, team leadership and escalation resolution
Good-to-Have Skills:
• Advanced modeling and global forecast management
• Power BI/Tableau and FP&A platforms
• Intelligent automation, transitions and continuous improvement
• Continuous Improvement / Lean & Six Sigma
• Stakeholders Coordination
• ERP Exposure
Role Summary The FP&A Senior Manager manages budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial performance analysis, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution while driving service performance, controls, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support preparation of management reports and performance packs
- Assist in budgeting, forecasting, and planning cycles
- Consolidate financial and operational data inputs
- Perform variance analysis between actuals, budget, and forecast
- Support data validation and reporting accuracy
- Prepare dashboards and standard performance reports
- Maintain documentation and reporting audit trails
- Prepare detailed variance and driver-based analysis for stakeholders
- Support forecasting models, scenario analysis, and planning submissions
- Coordinate with business teams on assumptions and performance reviews
- Identify insights and improvement opportunities from analysis
- Manage planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis deliverables
- Monitor FP&A KPIs including forecast accuracy and reporting timeliness
- Drive standardization of planning templates and reporting processes
- Provide decision-support insights to business and finance leadership
- Provide leadership across multiple teams and complex stakeholder groups
- Own end-to-end service performance, transformation agenda, and governance
- Manage risk, compliance, and continuous improvement at portfolio level
Experience & Skills
- 10–14 years of experience in FP&A or Finance Shared Services
- Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting
- Strong variance and financial analysis skills
- Experience with EPM/reporting tools (Hyperion, Oracle EPM, Power BI)
- Advanced Excel and data interpretation skills
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work in high-volume, SLA-driven environments
- People management and stakeholder coordination skills
- Experience driving process improvement and standardization
- Strong leadership, governance, and transformation capabilities
- Experience managing large teams and senior stakeholder relationships