Job Description
Purpose of the role
The Finance Analyst is an integral part of the ISP Group FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) team and is responsible for supporting all planning, forecasting, management reporting and other data preparation, analysis and other FP&A activities.
This is an important role that will be responsible for maintenance and preparation of key data structures, schedules, analysis and insights. This is directly in the system (Oracle PBCS), as well as in Excel and Power BI, together with presentations (slides). Ensuring, at all times, full data reconciliation and integrity. This role will also be familiar with available AI tools (such as Copilot, Claude etc) and be able to effectively utilise these in their work.
The ultimate objective is to ensure integrity of our management reporting, generate insightful datapoints and analysis that will support commercial and operational decision making across ISP.
The successful applicant will be highly analytical, comfortable with large data sets (advanced Excel), will be detail-oriented, inquisitive and curious and focused on achieving the correct final outcome. We are looking for a pro-active, self-starting and energetic individual who is hungry to learn and progress in the FP&A space, in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment. We are looking for somebody who is familiar with data cubes (ideally PBCS or Hyperion-HFM), familiar with the related data structures, meta data hierarchies etc.
The role will report into Group Head of FP&A who is based in the ISP headquarters in London.
Reports to: Group Head of FP&A
Location: Bangalore, India
ISP Key Responsibilities
Maintenance of Oracle PBCS
· Take ownership of PBCS – including metadata, data integrity, regular updates and maintenance. Collaborate with 3rd party system support in ensuring the system operates as intended
· Manage key processes within PBCS, incl. data loads, hierarchy updates, reconciliations etc.
· Work with PBCS (and potentially NetSuite) to extract, structure, and analyse financial data
· Identify and implement opportunities to streamline financial processes and enhance reporting and data collection efficiency
Generating standard monthly management reporting (slides, Excel, Power BI)
· Support month-end close activities - rolling over templates (Excel and PPT) and updating them for new requirement
· Updating templates for the latest financials within pre-agreed deadlines
· Preparing insightful variance analysis to drive understanding of the drivers of the variances (collaboration with the Group FP&A managers)
· Pro-actively identify and suggest improvements and automation opportunities
· Ensure high levels of data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across templates/data sources · Present financial data and insights clearly and concisely to finance and non-finance stakeholders
Support with budget and forecast preparation (P&L and Capex)
· Ensuring the templates are updated and available within agreed deadlines
· Ensuring all datapoints are fully reconciled
· Ensuring that the system (PBCS) reflection of the budget is accurate and complete
· Preparing insightful budget/forecast analyses with the objective to enhance our understanding and quality of our budgets/forecasts
· Updating templates for final budget/forecast financials and support with generating related presentations
Regional Finance Business Partnering
· As the main Group FP&A contact, support one or more Regions and be an effective Finance Business Partner for them
· Support Group elements of their month-end close and analysis
· Review their financials and challenge to ensure accuracy of reporting and also to identify financial improvement opportunities
Stakeholders:
· Internal: Group FP&A team, Group Financial Control, Regional Finance, Divisional CFOs
· External: n/a
Line Management:
· This role does not have any line…