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Job Title: Financial Business Analyst
Location: Trichy/Bangalore
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Finance / Strategy
Reporting To: CFO
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Financial Business Analyst to join our finance team. The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in financial analysis, business planning, and advanced Excel modeling. You will play a key role in driving strategic decisions by analyzing business performance, identifying trends, and building financial models to support forecasting and investment initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
· Analyze historical financial data and business performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
· Prepare detailed models on cash flow, vendor and bank payments, receivables, and portfolio analytics
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather data, validate assumptions, and support operational planning
· Develop dashboards and reports to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide actionable insights
· Perform variance analysis comparing actual vs. budget/forecast and explain business drivers
· Support strategic initiatives, including business case development, cost optimization, and capital investment analysis
· Prepare executive presentations and provide concise summaries of financial findings
· Assist in improving financial systems, processes, and reporting efficiency
· Prepare detailed reports and dashboards for other functional teams, partners and senior leadership
Qualifications:
· Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CFA is a plus)
· 3–5 years of experience in financial/business analysis, preferably in a corporate or consulting environment
· Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, pivot tables, nested formulas, scenario analysis, macros a plus)
· Strong understanding of financial statements, modeling logic, and investment metrics (NPV, IRR, ROI, etc.)
· Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights
· Proficiency in PowerPoint; familiarity with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) or ERP systems is a plus
· Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Traits:
· Highly analytical with a passion for solving business problems
· Self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of projects
· Comfortable working with ambiguity and building structure from scratch
· Collaborative, curious, and motivated to drive financial excellence
Involved in capex,modelling, Budgeting,investment decision making
Should be able to converse well with global stakeholders
O&G, Metals and mining heavy manufacturing Preferred
Others - not a frequent job hopper
Margin optimization -holistic understanding of the O&G P&L (not limited to 1-2 line items only)
· People Management – Delegating, Motivating and developing the team.
· Effective communication, presentation and management reporting skills.
· Ability to work with a high level of accuracy within assigned timelines.
· Adaptive and Innovative mindset.
· Readiness to take up challenges and develop new ways of working.
· Ability to work collaboratively within and outside the Team for a common objective.
· Expert knowledge of DBMS, SQL, Code development.
· Good hands on IT tools like MS Excel, Access, PPT, Qlik or other Reporting software.
· Strong analytical / problem solving skills.
Experience
· Minimum 8 years’ overall experience. Minimum 3 year of Reporting/Analytics experience in a supervisory role is preferable.
Work with a leading FMCG Manufacturing company, and grow with its amazing team.
Our Client is the world's largest FMCG brand manufacturer and exporter with a legacy spanning over 120 years.They are India's first integrated company with a comprehensive product chain. Our client is a billion dollar top line company holding 45% market share in India and 50% share in export market.
As a Manager Global FP&A, you will be managing a multitude of responsibilities that are related to forecasting, reporting, Implementation and analytics to improve on the company's product, sales and marketing effectiveness.
What you will do:
Marketing and Sales Analytics
- Performing insightful analysis of sales performance of brands (own and competitors) to highlight key performance/ issues across area/ geographies and facilitating strategic initiatives for improvement
- Working on Measurement and evaluation of effectiveness of executed marketing promotions
- Analyzing industry growth trends vis-a-vis own brands and competitors on monthly basis. Identifying gaps, planning and designing territory specific schemes to overcome competition
- Supporting sales teams with customized data queries, analysis and reports catering to specific business needs
- Pricing analysis within brands, packs and segments to suggest a competitive price for old/ new brands
Sales force enablement & effectiveness:
- Identifying outlet gaps in width of distribution/ availability of brands in retail, bars and clubs for the ease of the sales team to focus for the month
- Designing motivating reward schemes for the sales team with parameters of target achievement (overall volume and focus brands volume)
- Identifying outlet wise volume potential and plan monthly brand wise volumes to meet monthly regional sales plan (# of outlets 7000+)
- Evaluating sales team performance on monthly basis and computing incentive payouts and rewards
- Deriving frequency of visiting outlets basis value potential of the outlet - used to design PJP (Permanent Journey Plan) for better coverage of outlets by sales executive
Forecasting Sales:
- Projecting secondary sales volume for a horizon of 3 financial years and estimaing manufacturing unit requirements
- Forecasting yearly/ quarterly/ monthly/ weekly volume plans and identifying opportunities & risks
- Planning Monthly volume plan for brands and packs prediction on industry growth trends and sales inputs
Monthly Operations Review Report (MOR):
- Reporting on budget achievement, growth (volume and value) for the month and year till date
- Executive summary highlighting- environmental challenges and mitigation plan, market summary (Trade, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing) on what worked well/ what can work better vis a vis action points, issues performance achievements/ issues; to be submitted to the top management of the organization
Route to Consumer (RtC):
- Becoming a Project Lead for all regional implementation, requirements and smooth execution of RtC project
Perfect Outlets:
- Creating Segmentation of outlets based on Gross Sales Value (GSV) contribution to region
- MAking a Selection of top outlets based on value and profile of outlets to be transformed into perfect outlets
- Measuring parameters of Quality, Distribution, Visibility, Price, Promotion and Persuasion of an outlet and develop plan for improvement
- Training sales executives and third-party auditors on guidelines of retail outlet planogram and evaluating
Online Daily Sales Report:
- Measuring availability of brands in outlets on a weekly basis and providing targets to fill gaps
- Measuring and monitoring coverage of frontline sales team
Miscellaneous Activities:
- Making management presentations for review
- Preparing monthly and quarterly financial reports of various oversee distributors
- Adhering to accounting standards / ensure financial compliance in conjunction with international law and corporate accounting standards including export / import documentation as FEMA and RBI regulations
- Checking International Trade Marketing expenses inline of approval provided
- Preparing and checking Quarterly TME approval to be provided to distributors
- Creating an Analysis report on budgeted expenditure and actual expenditure of TME
- Maintaining dialogues and working relationship with overseas distributors.
- Managing receipts & vendor payments for exports receivables (AR)
- Implementing a Business Intelligence tool and dashboard reports
- Supporting management team and the Heads of Department with data-driven analysis
What you need to have:
- Either B.Tech & MBA or B.Com & MBA
- Worked on Sales Analytics for a FMCG company in food and beverage space of 500 crores plus size.
- Worked in the Domestic / Export division handling distributors, channel partners, dispensing customer and trade schemes
- Worked on sales budget analytics (revenue) as well as rationalization of spends (cost optimization of schemes)
- Possesses data collation and aggregation skills from multiple sources both internal and external to the organization.
- Comfortable working with large amounts of data and run historical analytics as well future trend progression to drive business unit objectives.
- Sales AOP, Forecast, Pricing, Expenses
- Working with Head Sales, Preparing various reports through BI Tools
- Strong Quantitative & Analytics abilities
- Experience with Global Financial Planning & Analysis
- Adaptive, willing and able to work with different time zones to get the work completed
- Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages
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