Cushman & Wakefield India | FP&A Senior Analyst

Responsibilities

• The senior role may have 1 – 3 analysts reporting into the senior and they will work together as a team to provide timely and high – quality deliverables.
• The senior role also needs to work directly with their internal customers and stakeholders to ensure strong communications and alignment on deliverables and needs.
• Based in the FP&A Operations Hub, the role combines system-driven execution with an increasing focus on analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insight generation.
• The role is critical to the transition toward a predictive, continuous, and insight-led FP&A function, with growing responsibility for leveraging and developing AI-enabled solutions, including agents.
• This role sits within the operational FP&A layer, delivering standardised, technology-enabled finance execution while progressively evolving toward insight generation, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled decision support.
• Close collaboration with Controllership, HR, Business Support, and Data/Tech teams.
• Contributor to a standardised, technology- and AI-enabled finance model.
• Support monthly forecasts, AOP, and budgeting cycles.
• Prepare, validate, and consolidate planning inputs.
• Track actuals vs. forecast/plan (incl. headcount and costs).
• Contribute to rolling forecast and continuous planning capabilities.
• Manage 1 – 2 FP&A analysts and ensure their timely and hi-quality FP&A deliverables.
• Execute system uploads and data preparation (e.
• Ensure accuracy through validation and reconciliation.
• Maintain consistent data across finance systems.
• Deliver standardised reporting packs and dashboards.
• Perform variance analysis across revenue, cost, and margin.
• Support Power BI dashboards and visualisation.
• Validate financial outputs during month-end close.
• Support reconciliation between financial and management reporting.
• Ensure alignment with Controllership processes.
• Automation, AI & Digital Enablement.
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline finance processes.
• Support automation of reporting, forecasting, and reconciliation activities.
• Build capability in applying AI within FP&A.

Requirements

• Strong financial analysis capability, including the ability to analyse financial data, identify trends, and prepare reports that support business decisions.
• Strong Excel and financial systems experience, including Workday, OneStream, Planning, or similar platforms for accurate reporting and data management.
• Proficiency in handling large datasets and using tools such as Power BI and other data visualisation or analysis platforms to extract insights and support decision-making.
• Familiarity with AI tools; interest in automation, digital, and agent-based solutions.
• Experience in shared services / structured environments preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial results and translate data into actionable insights.
• Strong systems and data capability, including confidence working with large datasets and finance technology platforms.
• Digital and AI mindset; ability to learn and apply new technologies.
• High level of ownership; proactive, self-driven, hands-on, and able to take initiative to get work done independently and within and through teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior managers and cross-functional teams.
• Collaborative and service-oriented, with the ability to work in a team environment and support colleagues and other departments to align finance activities with operational goals.
• Ability to collaborate and generate win-win solutions.

Cushman & Wakefield India

Cushman & Wakefield India is an employer hiring in India.

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Gurugram, Mumbai and Golflinks Software Park Private Limited.