Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Retail - CA

About Company: The company operates in the Trading/Retail industry, with a focus on organized retail and hypermarket operations. Job Description: This position is required to achieve the desired level of performance in the following Key Result areas: - Analysis - Strategic financial analysis, variances and trends in key P&L lines for the business units. - Develop annual corporate Cost budgets, to manage update through budgeting / profit planning cycle. - Reporting & Dashboards - Refresh standard monthly management reports to ensure outputs are actionable insights vs just information for decision-making. - Support & provide insight to group finance reporting team on various analysis on P&L and B/s lines. - Manage key internal customers in Finance leadership team, CFO, executive team, Functional heads from business. - Developing and maintaining financial models. - Process improvement & Automation. - Drive improvement in business process streamlining and quality control. Drive various automation and process streamlining projects. - Analyses and support on all New Capital Investment projects. Educational Qualification & Experience required: - Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) with 10+ years of post-qualification experience. - Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in core FP&A functions. - Current industry experience in Retail, E-commerce, or Manufacturing is preferred. - Strong expertise in Strategic & Financial Planning. - Excellent proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. - Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities. - Strong presentation, communication, and business partnering skills.