Corporate FP&A Manager – Planning, Forecasting and Reporting

at  NIELSENIQ

Job Description

ABOUT THIS JOB

We are seeking a Finance Manager or Sr. Financial Analyst to support our corporate FP&A team across planning, forecasting and reporting. We have a complex matrix organization across regions, brands, and functions. The team interfaces with many key leaders and stakeholders across the organization. This role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate and insightful reporting and robust forecasting and analysis to support the overall company strategy. This role will also participate in our ERP/EPM implementation and several key projects underway to transform our Finance organization and capabilities. This is an individual contributor role, but we are looking for someone with experience who can operate at both the strategic and detailed level.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of FP&A experience.
• Action-oriented and experience building strong, long term strategic relationships with stakeholders, partners, and internal functions.
• Experience in planning and forecasting for revenue and expenses.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis tools.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

• Support preparation of monthly reporting packages for executive leadership team, as well as regional and functional teams.
• Participate in the annual planning process, support coordination with regions and functions and develop modeling tools to consolidate information for multi-year plan.
• Support monthly forecasting process in collaboration with commercial finance, support the configuration of tools, process and content to ensure accuracy and simplicity.
• Lead and support development of consistent reporting content that can be made available across a variety of reporting tools in collaboration with IT and BI teams.
• Support improved automation and implementation of new ERP/EPM tools.
• Manage finance data governance process and maintain cost center and account hierarchies across systems in collaboration with other teams.
• Provide analytic support on questions and issues that arise across the finance and accounting team related to management reporting, data/hierarchies and other potential disconnects, and coordinate across key stakeholders to ensure resolution.
• Additional capacity to support this role will be provided out of our Pune Hub.