Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

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You will be working as Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst and will be part of Finance Services Business Area for Finance Transformation Program Division and will be a part of GBS located in Bangalore, India. In this role you will be reporting to Financial Planning and Analysis Manager and will be responsible for supporting the organization by compiling and analyzing metrics, identifying trends and problems, communicating information to relevant groups, and recommending actions to improve financial performance.

Your responsibilities

• Performing analysis of business performance versus budget, forecast and benchmarking of key performance indicators with external and internal peers
• Managing closing activities and MIS reports for the respective business or functions and working with the other financial professionals in divisions or hubs or countries or functions to understand and analyze the drivers of financial performance and identify trends
• Preparing and analyzing product or customer profitability and analyzing ad-hoc reports as per divisions or function’s request and analysis of overhead under or over absorption indicating root cause
• Preparing of relevant organization financial reporting, business planning and forecasting and supporting forex valuations, hedging, audits, and group on special projects and validating accuracy of financial data, business information, reports by performing reconciliation and review of exceptions
• Participating in business process or project reviews or functions review, assisting in target setting, strategic planning and analyzing performance of portfolio for various segments , presenting financial dashboards for business review
• Optimizing own performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplications, coordinating information requirements
• Maintaining proper audit trail and documentation for future tax or internal or external audits and reviews. Ensuring SOPs are prepared and updated regularly for all activities performed by the team

Your background

• Bachelor or master’s degree in a finance and/or accounting CMA/CA/ MBA Finance
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis is preferred
• Hands on experience in SAP FICO modules preferred
• SAP Experience with MS Office
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work with diverse teams across different countries and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

More about us

ABB’s shared services organization which delivers operational and expert services in Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, Legal, Global Travel Services and external Customer Contact Centers. With employees based in five main hubs and front offices, GBS provides mainly Business services to ABB teams across the globe as well as supports with external customer inquiries. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website https://www.abb.com. It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning Work model: on site #LI-onsite