Head of Finance and FP&A, India

Role Description

The Head of Reporting will lead the Group management reporting agenda within the FP&A Finance team, ensuring senior leaders have a clear, accurate and timely view of financial performance. The role is responsible for delivering Group management reporting and flash results, supporting consistent regional reporting, leading flash review meetings with functions and regional teams, and overseeing Group pro forma calculations for actuals and forecasts. The role will partner closely with Group Financial Control, regional finance teams, functional finance leaders and Finance Systems to strengthen reporting quality, data integrity and insight.

This is a senior finance leadership role suited to a qualified finance professional with more than 10 years’ experience, including significant exposure to FP&A, management reporting, financial control, performance analysis and team leadership in a complex, international organisation.

The role will require to work closely with Group Financial Control, Finance Systems, Finance Business Partners, functional Finance leaders and regional finance teams across the organisation. The role will directly manage a team of three based in India.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Group Management Reporting and Flash Results

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of Group management reporting, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, consistent and focused on the key drivers of performance.
• Own the preparation and delivery of flash results, providing an early and reliable view of monthly financial performance.
• Develop clear analysis of actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, highlighting material variances, risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
• Work closely with the Planning team to ensure budget and forecast bases are aligned with actuals reporting requirements.
• Maintain a robust reporting timetable, governance framework and quality-assurance process across the monthly reporting cycle.

Regional Reporting and Performance Insight

• Support regional finance teams in delivering high-quality management reporting that is aligned with Group definitions, timelines and performance measures.
• Drive consistency in reporting across regions and functions while recognising relevant local business drivers and requirements.
• Work with HR to ensure consistency in headcount reporting.
• Work with Commercial teams to capture new business and pipeline activity in management reporting.
• Translate complex financial results into concise, decision-useful commentary and insights for senior management, Executive and Board-level audiences.
• Continuously improve the relevance, clarity and efficiency of management information, focusing reporting on the measures that best explain business performance.

Flash Meetings and Stakeholder Management

• Plan, coordinate and lead monthly flash meetings with functional and regional teams, ensuring clear understanding of performance and the actions required.
• Provide constructive challenge on reported results, supporting commentary, forecast movements and the underlying operational drivers.
• Build strong relationships with regional Finance, functional Finance, Finance Business Partners and senior leadership to improve accountability and reporting quality.
• Present Group performance clearly and confidently, adapting the level of detail to the needs of different senior stakeholders.

Pro Forma Reporting, Controls, Systems and Team Leadership

• Own and run Group pro forma calculations for actuals and forecasts, maintaining clear methodologies, assumptions, controls and audit trails.
• Provide inputs into quarterly lender reporting, including P&Ls, exceptional costs and pro forma EBITDA.
• Work closely with Group Financial Control throughout month-end to align reported results, resolve issues and ensure management reporting is reconciled to the underlying financial records.
• Partner with Finance Systems and data teams to strengthen data integrity, resolve recurring data issues and improve the reliability and automation of reporting processes.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of three based in India, setting clear priorities, maintaining effective controls and building strong reporting and analytical capability.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified accountant or finance professional, ideally ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent. Financial Services or Technology experience is preferable.
• 10+ years’ experience in Finance, including substantial experience in FP&A, management reporting, financial control or performance analysis.
• Proven experience delivering Group management reporting and flash results in a complex, multi-entity or international organisation.
• Strong understanding of month-end close, management reporting controls, reconciliations and the relationship between statutory and management reporting.
• Experience producing pro forma or adjusted financial information for actuals and forecasts, supported by clear methodologies and controls.
• Advanced Excel and analytical capability, with experience using ERP, EPM, consolidation, reporting or BI tools and working with Finance Systems teams.
• Experience managing and developing geographically dispersed or offshore finance teams.

 Experience required

• Excellent command of management reporting, with the ability to connect financial outcomes to operational and commercial drivers.
• Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to accuracy, control and data integrity.
• Clear and confident communicator who can distil complex results into concise messages for senior audiences.
• Credible and collaborative stakeholder manager, able to challenge constructively and drive timely resolution of reporting issues.
• Strong leadership capability, with a focus on developing talent, setting clear standards and building an effective cross-border team.
• Outcome-focused, organised and resilient, with the ability to manage competing deadlines during month-end and forecast cycles.

About FNZ

FNZ is a global FinTech firm, transforming the way financial institutions serve their wealth management customers. We partner with banks, insurers and asset managers to help people achieve their financial goals through our unique combination of technology leadership, innovation and asset servicing.

Our services enable our clients to provide best-in-class wealth management solutions to financial advisers, end-investors and the workplace. We pride ourselves on creating solutions that are flexible, transparent and scalable, reflecting the latest market, demographic and regulatory trends worldwide.

FNZ has experienced exceptional growth in the past decade, both in terms of assets-under-administration and also through the substantial expansion of our international footprint.

Today, we are responsible for over £2.4 trillion in assets-under-administration, held by around 30 million customers of some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Aviva, Barclays, BNZ, Generali, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Quilter, Santander, UOB, Vanguard, and Zurich.

In total, FNZ partners with over 650 financial institutions across Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and North America and we employ around 7,000 people worldwide.

The company is owned by a combination of CDPQ-Generation, the unique sustainable equity partnership and FNZ employee shareholders.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.