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Job Description:
Job Description:
Financial Planning & Analysis – Band 5.2
Depending upon the business needs may require stretching beyond normal working hours
This role will support in monthly expense ledger activity, preparing expenses summary, preparing credit and debit note, FTE reporting, Other Reporting through Bloomberg, PO creation, various reporting deliverables, playing a key role in the preparing monthly P&L, MIS reporting deck and providing ad-hoc expense related analysis.
Responsibilities
- Primarily responsible for working on both F&A deliverables with global business partners and FP&A for India business partner
- Support the month-end reporting in ledger activity, expense summaries, ledger pull, P&L management, and expense management
- Investigate and effectively communicate expense variances against budget/forecast to business leaders, working closely with Business stakeholders.
- Prepare MIS summary for the leadership through Word Memo and PPT
- Provide accounting leadership on project spend, including calculating capitalization and amortization for various qualifying initiatives and maintaining supporting schedules
- Execute month-end close processes including accruals, expense transfers, and review of preliminary results for errors or unusual patterns in results
- Prepare monthly reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounts
- Analyze expense trends and recommend opportunities for savings
- On floor collaborate with other Finance areas to support and promote process integration and efficiencies
- Prepare or assist in ad hoc analysis and projects as required by management
Continuous Improvement
- Provide ideas, solutions, and tools to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of F&A and FP&A function
- Initiate Drive improvement projects for Finance, Monitor and deliver on agreed service level metrics.
- Automation to bring process efficiencies
Business Partnering
- Preferably a resource who has worked with different geographies on financial analytics matters.
- Raise level of financial awareness across the organization
- Act as the ‘Finance business partner’ for leadership/Stakeholders/Business partners etc.
Desirable Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
- MBA in Finance /CA/CPA/CFA
- 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in F&A and/or FP&A Role
- Thorough knowledge of Finance & Accounting processes
- Knowledge of SAP, Planning systems, Hyperion and BI tools (Tableau)
- Numbers savvy and eye for details
- A doer, self-driven and highly motivated.
- Excellent MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint must) skills,
- VBA skills would be an added advantage (Preferred)
- Client first approach committed to quality deliverables and drive service improvements.
- Proven ability to partner and build relationships
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- Proactive and resilient. Flexibility in learning new topics, handling change and deadlines.
- Ability to work independently in high-pressure situations. Flexible for extended hour working, as per business needs.
- Operates well in ambiguity and is resilient in changing situations
- Strong financial analysis and model development skills
What is required to succeed in this role?
- Strong business acumen, technical financial acumen, and analytical skill set
- Ability to prioritize tasks and determine what is important and where value can be best added
- Ability to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, and, may interface with members of leadership
- Learning ability, strong analytic and diagnostic skills dealing with opportunities and issues
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
Job Category:
Finance
Posting End Date:
24/03/2025
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What We Do
Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions. Bridgestone develops, manufactures and markets a diverse portfolio of original equipment and replacement tires, tire-centric solutions, mobility solutions and other rubber-associated and diversified products that deliver social and customer value. These best-in-class offerings are sold to consumers and fleet customers around the world under the trusted Bridgestone and Firestone brand names.
With more than 50 production facilities and 55,000 employees, the Bridgestone Americas enterprise spans from Canada to Argentina. Business units of Bridgestone Americas include Bridgestone Retail Operations, the world’s largest network of company-owned retail tire and automotive service centers; Bandag, a leader in commercial tire retreading worldwide; Firestone Building Products, an industry leader in commercial roofing and building solutions; and Firestone Industrial Products, a leading provider of technologically advanced air springs for commercial and passenger vehicle applications.
Across all its businesses, Bridgestone is dedicated to shaping a sustainable future. Guided by its global corporate social responsibility commitment, Our Way to Serve, the company strives to improve the way people around the world move, live, work and play in every aspect of its business.
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