Accenture India | Financial Plan & Analysis Assoc Manager

Roles and responsibilities

• This role is responsible for Partnering with BU’s as necessary leading performance frameworks both Reporting and forward looking , driving forward-looking analysis, and embedding integrated performance management.
• The role provides strategic insights to understand past performance and drive future performance, scenario modelling and decision support to executive stakeholders, ensuring financial and operational performance are tightly aligned to strategic objectives and market realities.
• Lead development and continuous improvement of the enterprise performance management (IBP) framework, ensuring alignment across Trading, Operations, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Commercial functions.
• Drive standardisation of planning, performance and reporting processes across the business units.
• Drive overall understanding of drivers and insights into Performance including Margins.
• Provide insights into Optimisation (swing) decisions (e.g., product mix optimisation, channel allocation, plant utilisation).
• Lead complex multi-variable scenario modelling (commodity prices, global demand, weather impacts, geopolitical shifts, supply disruptions).
• Support strategic investment decisions including capacity expansions, asset maintenance cycles, and capital optimisation.
• Provide clear financial narratives to support decision-making at leadership levels.
• Support target setting and KPI tracking for the business unit.
• Drive continuous performance monitoring, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Provide analytical support on revenue, cost, margin, working capital drivers, store forecasting, profitability analysis or occupancy on shelves.
• Support cost recoveries through allocation models or charge backs from operations or other business units.
• Ensure IBP integrates demand, supply, inventory, production planning and commercial strategy into a single enterprise plan.
• Ensure alignment between financial plan, S&OP, and operational plans—especially in volatile market environments.
• Drawing on experience in consumer goods, retail grocery and wholesale, liquor industry (Dairy, oil & gas, grain, mining, energy or chemicals), this role brings deep understanding of cost drivers, margin volatility, capacity constraints, market risk, manufacturing, supply chain, product costing and capital allocation tradeoffs.
• Support the Finance Business Partner, FP&A Manager, Divisional General Manager in team leadership, planning, and execution of key initiatives.
• Lead adoption of enterprise CPM tools (SAP SAC, Power BI, or equivalent).
• Build reporting for trading, and product contribution margin.
• Ensure data quality, , and single-source-of-truth structures for performance reporting. 7.
• Lead cross-functional performance dialogues, including monthly performance reviews, risk reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
• Coach analysts and stakeholders on interpreting commodity driven performance drivers. driven performance drivers.
• Partner to drive long term outcomes for the Business
• Translate commodity market movements, input cost volatility, FX impacts, and supply chain constraints into actionable performance insights for senior leaders.
• Integrate operational KPIs (yield, throughput, energy use, working capital) with Sales and Optimisation financial KPIs to create a unified performance view.

Skills, knowledge, experience required

• Experience working with commodity markets, price curves, hedging, supply/demand analytics, or trading.
• Understanding of global supply chains, production economics, and asset intensive operations.
• Experience connecting financial performance with operational and market drivers. Advanced analytical & modelling capability.
• Strong skills in scenario modelling, cost curves, sensitivity analysis, optimisation models, and price-volume-mix.
• Experience with advanced analytics or forecasting tools used in commodity industries. Systems & digital capability.
• Advanced Excel — financial modelling, large datasets, pivot analysis, complex lookups.
• Mentor wider FP&A and operational finance teams in understanding margin dynamics and drivers of volatility.
• Working with Finance ensure alignment of long term and near term plans.

Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company working in strategy and consulting, technology, operations and digital transformation. It took its current name in 2001 after separating from Arthur Andersen, where it began as Andersen Consulting.

India is one of Accenture's largest talent bases. Finance professionals there mostly work in finance and accounting operations for global clients: record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, financial planning and analysis, and related advisory work.

• Industry: Professional services and IT
• Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
• In India: Delivery centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Gurugram and other cities