Job Summary -
This position will be a critical business partner. This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and focus on providing data driven business and financial insights to the relevant stakeholders that will enable sound decision making.
· Ideate, contribute to and ensure delivery and perfect execution of projects through effectively allocating, distributing and planning work with team members
· Contribute to a high-performance team that will build, monitor and report out business performance, financial results and deliver ad hoc projects by following best practices towards building a state-of-the-art delivery organization
· Build robust processes to ensure 100% accuracy and timely analysis for Asset protection
· Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling to improve the shrink and chargeback performance of the organization
· Drive projects that provide answers to strategic and tactical business questions – sometimes with very basic problem statement (dealing with ambiguity)
o Quickly grasp the business problem and translates into tangible, usable actionable outputs
o Knowledge of multiple approaches to tackle problems and recommending suitable approach based on facts, figures, data. Ability to story-tell (why/what/how) enabling decision making
o Manage the financial planning and analysis effort, forecasting using the key input levers to the business – pricing, promotion, weather, business landscape and such that play a key role in retail dynamics
o Develop ad hoc business analysis (scenario analysis) and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives.
· Work with business partners and others in SSC-B and SSC-M to constantly find opportunities, leverage commonalities and ensure proactive solution building and delivery
· Establish and maintain operating and business metrics.
· Work with accounting team to drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, as required
· Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by organizing resources and information; openly sharing information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; seeking performance feedback; adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback
Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor's/Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business and/or Chartered Accountant, OR MBA
· 2+ years of experience
· Good understanding in MS Excel, Power BI and SQL
· Strong Data collation, compilation, visualization skills
· Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
· Having the ability to convert nomenclatures from finance into business and vice-versa
· Strong retail business understanding
· Strong influencing abilities
· Superior liaising, project management, co-ordination, planning and facilitating skills
· Superior communication skills – being able to manage upward, peers and offshore teams.