Business finance - Cost Optimization, Margin Improvement

Job description

Business Finance • Determine, maintain, and understand the key business drivers of the business unit (e.g., Headcount, Margins, Revenue per FTE, Cost per FTE, Utilization, Direct costs etc.). • Assist with establishing financial goals and operational metrics for BUs as needed. • Preparation of BU financial revenue and cost budgets and thereafter execution of regular revenue and GM forecasting exercises. • Responsible for supporting, tracking and reporting on special projects (e.g., headcount ramp up/ down, capacity analysis, profit improvement programs, etc.) • Analyse financial statements (including high level modelling capability) to develop and support strategic insights, working closely with CXO level • Conduct monthly operations / financial review for assigned BUs. • Preparation of MIS to provide gross contribution and overall financial performance & preparation of monthly business performance review. • Delivery of regular & ad-hoc reports (such as risk exposure, trending analysis, what if modelling, etc.) Operations Management • Ensure operational efficiency in sustained and improved over time through various cost optimization initiatives across the delivery organization • BU level direct cost optimization through rigorous reviews and improvement of non-billing costs (pool resources, buffer resources etc.) • Upkeep of all internal systems to reflect the accurate metrics and data at any point of time • Planning and utilization tracking of capacity usage (across all locations)