Accenture India | Financial Plan & Analysis Senior Analyst

Roles and responsibilities

• Purpose of the role The Senior Analyst plays a pivotal role in the FP&A function, delivering high-quality financial analysis, reporting, and business insights to support strategic decision-making.
• This role is responsible for preparing accurate forecasts and budgets, performing detailed variance analysis, and maintaining robust management reporting.
• Prepare forecast and budget inputs with accuracy and timeliness.
• Track key assumptions, risks, and dependencies across planning cycles.
• Support consolidation and validation of submissions from stakeholders.
• Perform detailed variance analysis on revenue, cost, margin, and working capital.
• Prepare monthly and ad hoc reports with clear, insight-led commentary.
• Support decision-making through trend analysis, driver-based insights, and basic modelling.
• Prepare the rolling forecast for revenue and gross margin lines within assigned categories.
• Support annual budgeting and long-range planning inputs for the retail vertical.
• Maintain KPI trackers and support periodic performance reviews.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of management information.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand business drivers and validate data.
• Respond effectively to stakeholder queries and ad hoc analysis requests.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams and service delivery partners.
• Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, improve controls, and enhance data quality.
• Support standardisation and documentation of FP&A processes.
• Support team leads with work coordination and quality assurance activities.
• Mentor junior analysts and support onboarding of new team members.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and documentation of FP&A processes.
• Respond effectively to stakeholder queries and support ad hoc analysis requests.
• Build professional relationships with internal teams and service delivery partners.
• Communicate proactively on deliverable status, issues, and timelines.
• Support stakeholder meetings with data preparation and presentation support.
• Acting as a key contributor within the FP&A team, the Senior Analyst collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, supports continuous improvement initiatives, and mentors junior team members—ensuring operational excellence and value creation for the business.

Skills, competencies, experience required

• Relevant FP&A or commercial finance experience, preferably in manufacturing, retail, or CPG.
• Strong grounding in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Good business acumen and understanding of financial drivers.
• Proficiency in Excel; exposure to SAP, SAC, or Power BI preferred.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently on recurring processes and collaborate in a global delivery.
• Hands-on FP&A, Commercial Finance business acumen with exposure in commercial, retail, wholesale, merchandise, CPG or product-driven environments preferred Tools.
• Advanced Excel — financial modelling, large datasets, pivot analysis, complex lookups.
• Familiarity with Snowflake or data warehouse reporting layers Team Management Support team coordination; mentor junior analysts and contribute to knowledge sharing.

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