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Director, Global FP&A Reporting Center of Excellence (India)
As the leader of this function, you will establish the processes, standards, tools, and talent that enable timely, accurate, and scalable financial reporting across the company. While the primary mission of the COE is to serve as the operational backbone of OneMagnify's global management reporting process, this role also plays a key leadership role in supporting India's budgeting process and partnering with local business leaders to identify cost optimization opportunities.
You will work closely with Finance leadership in the United States and India to deliver executive, board, lender, and management reporting while ensuring the organization has clear visibility into financial performance, risks, and opportunities. Beyond reporting, you will help transform how Finance operates by driving automation, process standardization, and the adoption of AI-enabled solutions that improve reporting efficiency, analytical capability, and decision-making.
This role is ideal for a builder who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys creating scalable processes, and has experience leading reporting, shared services, or center-of-excellence organizations that support global stakeholders across multiple regions and time zones.
Recruit, coach, and develop FP&A talent.
Own Global Financial Reporting
Serve as the primary escalation point for reporting quality and financial data integrity.
Lead monthly budget-versus-actual analysis and investigate material variances for India entity.
Identify key business drivers, emerging risks, and opportunities.
Partner with local Accounting, FP&A, Operations, HR, and business leaders.
Drive Reporting Transformation & Automation
Reduce dependence on manual reporting processes.
Champion process automation and data standardization.
Build strong relationships with Finance and business leaders across the United States and India.
Support Finance transformation, BI, and process improvement initiatives.
The FP&A Reporting COE is recognized as the trusted source for management, board, and lender reporting.
Material business risks and opportunities are proactively identified and communicated through disciplined variance analysis.
Reporting cycle times and manual effort are significantly reduced.
AI and advanced reporting technologies improve reporting quality, speed, and insight generation.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CA, CPA, CMA preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive Financial Planning and Analysis or global consolidated reporting
- 5+ years of experience leading teams, shared services organizations, or COEs.
- Experience delivering executive, board, lender, or management reporting.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
- Experience supporting stakeholders across multiple countries and time zones.
- Experience driving automation and finance transformation initiatives.
- Experience with Adaptive Planning or similar EPM platforms.
- Experience building or leading a Finance Shared Service Center or Reporting COE.
Experience in a professional services, consulting, marketing services, or technology environment.
Experience leveraging AI, Generative AI, machine learning, RPA, or advanced analytics tools to improve financial reporting and forecasting.
Experience partnering with BI or Data Engineering teams.
Experience with Power BI and modern reporting technologies.
Demonstrated success building scalable processes from an evolving starting point.