Financial Analyst, Business F&S

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.

This is a strong FP&A and Corporate Finance profile. You thrive in building structured processes from the ground up, have a sharp eye for data quality, and bring a standardization and automation-first mindset to everything you touch. You are comfortable working independently, managing a large volume of recurring deliverables with accuracy and timeliness, and continuously improving the processes behind them.

As you establish the reporting foundation, you will have the opportunity to take on broader scope including owning forecast line items, driving planning cycle inputs, and contributing to more strategic finance work within Group Business F&S.

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 (budget vs. actual), 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