Financial Analyst, Business F&S

About the Role

We are hiring a Financial Analyst for Group Business F&S to build, standardize, and scale the reporting, planning, and process excellence functions that support Group Business Finance & Strategy.

This role covers the full spectrum of Group Business F&S financial operations including headcount reporting and analytics, month end close accruals, opex reporting and BvA, business review preparation, and forward-looking planning cycles.

The immediate and primary mandate is to establish a clean, consistent, and automated reporting foundation across Group Business F&S, bringing discipline and rigor to how financial and workforce data is tracked, packaged, and presented to F&S leadership.

Responsibilities

Reporting and Analytics:

• Own end-to-end delivery of the monthly and quarterly reporting packages for Group Business F&S, including headcount actuals, opex BvA, forecast variance commentary, and trend analysis for MBRs, RTBRs, and board-level reviews
• Design, build, and maintain standardized dashboards and data packs that give F&S leadership a clear, consistent, and audit-ready view of Group Business F&S financial and workforce health across planning orgs, cost centers, functions, and geographies
• Own headcount reporting and analytics as a core component of the Group Business F&S reporting suite, tracking HC actuals, variances, and trends alongside broader financial metrics
• Establish a single source of truth for Group Business F&S data by driving cross-system integrity across Workday, planning systems, and Oracle, defining data quality standards and owning resolution of discrepancies
• Translate financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives that explain variances, surface risks, and connect business trends to financial outcomes for senior leaders
• Automate and streamline recurring reporting workflows, eliminating manual steps and building for scale and consistency

Planning and Forecasting: Strategic Ownership

• Support the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes for Group Business F&S, maintaining and updating financial and HC models by planning org and cost center in Anaplan or any other enterprise planning system
• Over time, take ownership of specific forecast line items within Group Business F&S, building bottoms-up models that incorporate headcount, opex, requisitions, backfill decisions, attrition assumptions, and hire-ahead activity
• Build scenario models to support F&S leadership in assessing the financial and operational impact of business and workforce decisions across Group Business F&S

Process Excellence and Standardization

• Lead the documentation and standardization of reporting and planning processes across Group Business F&S, building SOPs, data dictionaries, and process playbooks that ensure consistency, continuity, and auditability
• Identify inefficiencies across reporting and planning workflows and drive automation initiatives that reduce cycle time and improve output quality
• Champion process improvement opportunities within F&S Bengaluru, bringing proposals to F&S leadership for prioritization and resourcing
• Mentor and guide junior analysts in F&S Bengaluru on reporting standards, analytical rigor, and process discipline

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 7–14 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or financial analysis, with meaningful hands-on experience in financial reporting, planning, and process standardization
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• Strong FP&A fundamentals: you have owned reporting cycles, built and maintained financial models, and managed budget and forecast processes with precision and without supervision
• Proven track record of building and standardizing reporting processes, with a demonstrated ability to bring structure, consistency, and automation to previously manual or fragmented workflows
• Experience in headcount reporting and workforce analytics as part of a broader FP&A or Corporate Finance remit
• Command of enterprise planning systems such as Anaplan or any equivalent tool for financial and headcount planning; working knowledge of Workday for position and people data is an advantage
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including integrated model design, scenario modeling, and large-dataset manipulation
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives for senior leaders
• Strong process orientation with a history of building scalable, structured processes in ambiguous or resource-constrained environments
• High attention to detail with the discipline to maintain accuracy across high-volume, recurring deliverables under tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across time zones and with US-based counterparts