Finance and Accounting Manager

Manager Roles & responsibilities The Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals. Key Responsibilities: • Business Understanding: • Acquire a thorough understanding of the supported business area. • Support for Leadership Teams: • Prepare management information (MI), and analysis to support the decisions and considerations of the Tax & Legal Leadership team. • Undertake both regular and ad-hoc forecasting and budgeting activities. • Financial Management: • Take responsibility for revenue and contribute to forecast submissions, ensuring coordination of inputs and delivery of insightful analysis. • Compile comprehensive supporting data and analysis to enhance decision-making processes. • Lending and Borrowing Analysis: • Coordinate lending and borrowing analysis, reporting, and insights for the capability. • Report on business drivers. • Coordinate insights from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team. • Capability-Wide Solutions and Reporting: • Develop solutions and reporting to address capability-wide finance issues, such as hard close, liquidity targets suspense, and Work in Progress (WIP) sign-off. Roles & responsibilities contd. Process Improvement: • Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. • Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation. Team and Stakeholder Engagement: • Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. • Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. • Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. • Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity. This role is for you if you have the below • A qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / CA / MBA Finance) and over 10 years relevant experience of accounting in an operational or professional services environment • Resilient and able to work with multiple and highly demanding stakeholders • An ability to work at both a strategic and a granular level – choosing when each is appropriate • Experience in financial planning and producing financial reports/analysis for management • High attention to detail, and ability to maximize quality even when meeting deadlines under pressure • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills Roles & responsibilities The Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals. Key Responsibilities: • Business Understanding: • Acquire a thorough understanding of the supported business area. • Support for Leadership Teams: • Prepare management information (MI), and analysis to support the decisions and considerations of the Tax & Legal Leadership team. • Undertake both regular and ad-hoc forecasting and budgeting activities. • Financial Management: • Take responsibility for revenue and contribute to forecast submissions, ensuring coordination of inputs and delivery of insightful analysis. • Compile comprehensive supporting data and analysis to enhance decision-making processes. • Lending and Borrowing Analysis: • Coordinate lending and borrowing analysis, reporting, and insights for the capability. • Report on business drivers. • Coordinate insights from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team. • Capability-Wide Solutions and Reporting: • Develop solutions and reporting to address capability-wide finance issues, such as hard close, liquidity targets suspense, and Work in Progress (WIP) sign-off. Roles & responsibilities contd. Process Improvement: • Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. • Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation. Team and Stakeholder Engagement: • Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. • Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. • Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. • Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity. This role is for you if you have the below • A qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / CA / MBA Finance) and over 10 years relevant experience of accounting in an operational or professional services environment • Resilient and able to work with multiple and highly demanding stakeholders • An ability to work at both a strategic and a granular level – choosing when each is appropriate • Experience in financial planning and producing financial reports/analysis for management • High attention to detail, and ability to maximize quality even when meeting deadlines under pressure • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills Roles & responsibilities The Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals. Key Responsibilities: • Business Understanding: • Acquire a thorough understanding of the supported business area. • Support for Leadership Teams: • Prepare management information (MI), and analysis to support the decisions and considerations of the Tax & Legal Leadership team. • Undertake both regular and ad-hoc forecasting and budgeting activities. • Financial Management: • Take responsibility for revenue and contribute to forecast submissions, ensuring coordination of inputs and delivery of insightful analysis. • Compile comprehensive supporting data and analysis to enhance decision-making processes. • Lending and Borrowing Analysis: • Coordinate lending and borrowing analysis, reporting, and insights for the capability. • Report on business drivers. • Coordinate insights from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team. • Capability-Wide Solutions and Reporting: • Develop solutions and reporting to address capability-wide finance issues, such as hard close, liquidity targets suspense, and Work in Progress (WIP) sign-off. Roles & responsibilities contd. Process Improvement: • Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. • Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation. Team and Stakeholder Engagement: • Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. • Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. • Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. • Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity. This role is for you if you have the below • A qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / CA / MBA Finance) and over 10 years relevant experience of accounting in an operational or professional services environment • Resilient and able to work with multiple and highly demanding stakeholders • An ability to work at both a strategic and a granular level – choosing when each is appropriate • Experience in financial planning and producing financial reports/analysis for management • High attention to detail, and ability to maximize quality even when meeting deadlines under pressure • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills Experience Level Senior Level