BPA Manager

Key Requirements:

• Responsible for end-to-end Annual Planning and periodic Forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business heads and adherence to defined timelines.
• Act as a financial partner to key stakeholders by consistently monitoring business performance, delivering early warning signals to Country QA Heads, and ensuring proactive management of risks and opportunities to optimize spending control.
• Lead strategic projects by identifying opportunities, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, exploring synergies, and delivering actionable insights.
• Optimize and improve management reporting processes by implementing streamlined workflows and lean practices.
• Focus on enhancing forecast accuracy, ensuring budget compliance, improving financial performance, and delivering strategic insights to drive growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams – Local/Global Accounting, Tech Ops Sites, People Partners, Data and Digital and the Central Consolidations team, to ensure the timely and accurate collection and reporting of data.
• Foster operational excellence by leveraging a process simplification mindset to enhance cost competitiveness and align with our evolving portfolio.
• Leverage data & digital to simplify & automate our financial processes.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience in managing the P&L, Budgeting and Forecasting and month close activities.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build trust and foster effective cross – functional partnerships.
• Self- motivated and innovative and the ability to perform under pressure and deliver results.

Desirable Requirements:

• CA or MBA with 5+years of relevant experience.