Manager - Finance Operations Business Partnering, Finance Operations

As a Finance Operations Business Partner, the candidate will work with customer-centric, and entrepreneurial teams to drive financial results, scalable processes and numerous improvement initiatives. The functional domain will be Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, Forecast of business growth and volume to identify impact on Finance Operations and driving technology adoption in existing and new initiatives. The candidate exemplifies ownership and holds self, stakeholders and partner teams to high standards of accountability, quality and precision in communication, alignment and execution. The role will require dedication to drive results for internal and external customers through consistent focus on defect reduction and prioritization of business outcomes. The primary audience for this role is Executive / Senior Leaders in Business Operations, Finance, Technology and other groups such as Legal, Accounting and Tax.
Key job responsibilities
Set customer-centric goals in Accounts Receivable (Accurate Billing, Collections), Accounts Payable (Timely and Accurate Payments), define programs to translate goal-statements into incremental progressive actions, schedule and achieve implementation milestones, develop processes, documentation and communications for launches and ongoing support that reinforces learning and customer experience.
Owns financial reporting for related business area; understands input drivers and validates integrity of reports. When stakeholders are faced with difficult business problems, the candidate fosters constructive dialogues, harmonize conflicting views, lead the resolution of issues, and earn trust.
Build scalable processes through technology that addresses volume, complexity, regulatory frameworks and expansion. Work backwards from customer through high quality and effective whitepapers or business requirements document.
Define measures of success, methods to validate measurement of the right parameters, but does not engage in optics. Schedule periodic reviews to assess progress, identify risks or blockers timely and implement agreed resolutions for core programs such as Vendor Experience, Customer Experience and Controllership initiatives.
Build business relationships with systems and business owners globally to ensure process excellence and the highest degree of controllership.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bengaluru, KA, IND
- 8+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
- 8+ years of multiple finance and accounting roles experience
- 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
- 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
- 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- CA, CMA with 10+ years Post Qualification Experience
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results