Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

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Role Summary We are seeking a Finance Data Product Lead / FP&A Analytics Lead to serve as the critical bridge between business finance, accounting, and technical data engineering teams. This individual will own the end-to-end alignment of management reporting requirements, financial metrics, and source-system definitions, ensuring that analytical data platforms accurately reflect financial truths, reconciliations, and reporting hierarchies. What You Will Own & Drive • Partner deeply with finance leadership to understand business goals and management reporting requirements. • Drive consensus and agreement across teams on standardized financial definitions, metrics, and reporting hierarchies. • Translate complex accounting and FP&A business needs into clear, actionable technical data requirements. • Define financial controls, data validation rules, and automated reconciliation frameworks across systems. • Rationalize, consolidate, and streamline recurring management reports to optimize analytics efficiency. • Collaborate with ERP teams to ensure source-system data definitions and structures support downstream reporting. • Work closely with Data Architects and Snowflake Data Engineers to define proper analytical representations in the data warehouse. • Validate and verify that analytical data platforms rigorously reconcile back to core finance systems of record. Must-Have Experience & Core Qualifications • Proven track record in FP&A, finance analytics, or finance transformation roles within enterprise environments. • Extensive experience with management reporting, executive dashboards, and financial analytics. • Strong working knowledge of enterprise ERP data structures (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle). • Deep understanding of core financial statements and metrics, including P&L, bookings, revenue recognition, and expense reporting. • Data modeling literacy with the ability to understand data warehouse design, dimensional structures, and semantic layers. • Exceptional stakeholder-management skills with proven ability to align finance executives and technical engineering teams. Please note - This role is remote based with the shift timings 5.30PM to 3.30 AM. Interested candidates please share your updated resume on neelam.fernandes@straive.com. Thanks & Regards, Neelam Fernandes HR - Team