Sr. AVP - FP&A

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Synopsis of the role

As the emerging markets lead for FP&A, you will be part of the Finance Business Partner team within our International Business Unit, reporting into the Regional Head. You will work closely with the business leaders in the Region to deliver dedicated and insightful financial analysis to enable the Business Unit to reach its financial objectives. As a member of this team, exceptional communication, trust-building and partnering skills are critical.

The position will interact with sales team to deliver financial information and insights in a concise and relevant manner to feed effective decision-making. You will be responsible to drive pricing strategy and execution, evaluating product profitability, capital allocation projects, and overall profit and loss results in support of long-term planning and execution by working very closely with regional head.

You will guide a team of finance professionals in strategic direction and ensuring the execution of deliverables. You will work closely with the controllership team.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the lead – FP&A for India and emerging markets
• Work closely with various stakeholders in identifying and addressing financial and business issues, bringing effective information to bear, supporting timely decision-making, and personally driving action and results on initiatives where appropriate.
• Serve as the local finance representative for statutory purposes, including managing relationships with local board members, local external auditors and tax authorities.
• Analyze business unit expense (operating and capital) and trends, and the preparation of reporting and synopsis of the business results to management.

• Manage development of people, provide inputs to influence key decisions
• Will be responsible for reporting and analysis of financial information for region operations, including budgets, forecasts, and monthly analyses of results.
• Prepare executive summaries, participate in monthly financial reviews with business unit leadership that help highlight key trends, variances, strengths and weaknesses within the business. Help identify appropriate action plans which respond to opportunities and issues.
• Provide actionable analysis of revenue, customers, product lines, volumes, operating costs, profitability and capital projects in support of key business unit decision-making.
• Work closely with regional leaders to drive pricing strategy and execution, evaluating product profitability in support of long-term planning and execution.
• Work closely with regional leaders to prepare annual budgets which reflect market conditions, key business drivers and strategic and operating initiatives, and properly balance realism with healthy stretch objectives. Help identify action steps to ensure successful delivery against budgets.
• Lead development of business cases for capital expenditures and other key initiatives.
• Support commercial planning and analysis including revenue recognition.
• Lead contract and pricing reviews and administration of sales incentive plans with the region head and HR Leader.
• Anticipate business needs, and maintain a strong understanding of key business drivers and industry trends.
• Identify, recruit, develop and retain a high-performance team of professionals; provide direction, feedback, coaching and prioritization to the team

What experience you need:

• Should be a qualified Chartered Accountant.
• Minimum 12+ yrs years Financial Planning and Analysis experience including full P&L management
• Should have at least 3 yrs of experience in pricing strategy and supporting sales or revenue-generating teams
• Minimum 4+ years in role supporting revenue stream finance
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading a team of finance professionals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including Executive Leadership team, peers, and staff
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading team of financial analysts
• Flexibility to travel locally and internationally as and when required

What could set you apart

• Experience in Financial Services, Data or Technology company
• Should have experience of working in a company which has gone through cloud transformation
• Experience creating and presenting complex business cases and participation of new product introduction, capital expenditure or other business development and M&A activities
• Demonstrated success collaborating with Finance, Sales and Technology functions
• Experience using MS Office, Google Suite, Tableau, TM1, Hyperion, Oracle Projects and/or OBI (Business Intelligence Objects) or any relevant business intelligence reporting platform. Strong PC skills, with a particular emphasis on Microsoft Excel

We offer a hybrid work setting, comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, attractive paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible?  Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Primary Location:

IND-Mumbai-Equifax Credit Information Services

Function:

Function - Finance

Schedule:

Full time