Emerson India | Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to work with our FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) in Pune supporting Enterprise FP&A and FP&A COE leadership.
• Manage the consolidation and reporting of quarterly financial planning, including the President's Operating Report (POR) – preparing reports and providing review and analysis across all Business Unit and Enterprise details.
• Analyze key financial metrics and performance indicators, investigating material variances versus prior forecasts, budgets, and historical results.
• Partner with business unit finance teams to support forecast submissions, provide guidance on corporate policies and procedures, and troubleshoot issues related to Hyperion Financial Management (HFM).
• Collaborate with Corporate Accounting, the HFM team, and other key stakeholders to resolve reporting issues, improve data quality, and support evolving reporting requirements.
• Reconcile and validate reported financial results with Corporate Accounting to ensure the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of financial data.
• Analyze monthly operating results and prepare executive-level commentary summarizing key performance drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance management reporting using HFM Smart View, ad hoc reporting tools, and other enterprise wide reporting platforms to deliver meaningful financial insights to leadership.
• Support the preparation of financial presentations, analyses, and reporting materials for Board of Directors meetings, Executive Leadership Team meetings, planning conferences, and other management reviews.
• Provide analytical and reporting support for projects and presentations requested by the CFO, Finance leadership, and Strategic Planning teams.
• Support the transition and enhancement of reporting processes from HFM to Oracle EPM (Emerson’s new consolidation and planning system), including the migration of reporting templates and reporting capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting efficiency, and data accuracy.
• Lead process improvement initiatives through cross-functional collaboration, automation, standardization, and implementation of best practices.
• Manage the financial reporting process for the FP&A COE P&L and Headcount to ensure timely and accurate reporting of results.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, and annual actual financial closes and forecast updates, meeting reporting deadlines.
• Prepare FP&A COE P&L and variance analysis of actuals vs plan requiring a strong command of Cost Centre Analysis and driver identification.
• Support Annual Budgeting, mid-year reviews and rolling forecast processes.
• Maintain monthly headcount and invoicing out of FP&A COE to optimize utilization and charge per head per annum.
• Design and prepare management reports defining key indicators and metrics and provide comprehensive variance analysis.
• Drive Process optimization initiatives to create efficiency and model the desired team driven, creative thinking, process improvement culture within the COE group.
• Support special projects and other ad-hoc requests.
• Manager of Enterprise FP&A located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Requirements

• Finance Professional with 5 years of work experience in the FP&A Domain.
• Hands on experience in ERP, MS Office, and reporting tools.
• Analytical thinking ability and team player mentality.
• Self-starter, suggesting and implementing improvements to the processes.
• Basic understanding of Accounting Principles and US GAAP.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Relevant elevated degree or credentials.
• Knowledge of Oracle, Hyperion Financial Management.
• Ability to Balance stakeholders.
• Experience introducing AI to processes.

Emerson India

Emerson India is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Emerson delivers leading automation solutions and technology to help industries innovate for a safer, smarter and more sustainable world."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Pune and Bengaluru.