Lead Expert : Financial Performance Management
Responsibilities
Job Description – Lead (Individual Contributor) - FP&A
Role Purpose
Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders by delivering and contributing to Forecast, budget, performance management, expert analysis and actionable insights for assigned business units, driving decision support, ensuring robust financial governance, and contributing continuous improvement initiatives, while operating as an individual contributor.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end FP&A processes including Annual budget, forecasts, and monthly performance analysis.
- Detailed P&L analysis, providing meaningful insights on revenue, cost, margin, productivity, and profitability drivers.
- Deliver executive-level variance analysis and commentary explaining business performance, trends and key drivers.
- Partner with finance stakeholders to support decision-making through data-driven insights and financial recommendations.
- Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and influence actions to improve business performance.
- Ensure reporting accuracy and drive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reviews with senior management.
- Active contribution to standardization, simplification, automation, and digitalization of FP&A processes and reporting.
- Act as the primary point of contact for finance and business stakeholders within the assigned scope.
- Identify and implement of AI use cases in FP&A process in respective scope.
- Mentoring and functional guidance to juniors
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance (CA, CMA, CPA, or MBA (Finance) preferred)
- 7-12 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, or related finance functions.
- Demonstrated experience partnering senior finance leaders
Technical Skills
- Advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel and storytelling skills using PowerPoint.
- Experience with finance tools such as Oracle, Hyperion, Power BI, or similar platforms.
- Experience working on AI use cases / well versed with prompting
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting and business performance analysis.
- Knowledge of automation and reporting solutions is an advantage.
Competencies
- Strong commercial and business acumen. Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex financial data into business insights and recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision.
- Continuous improvement and automation mindset.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and results orientation.
Key Success Measures
- Timely delivery of management reporting and executive reviews.
- Positive stakeholder feedback and business partnering effectiveness.
- Identification and realization of business performance improvement opportunities.
- Successful implementation of process standardization, automation, and efficiency initiatives.
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Job Description – Lead (Individual Contributor) - FP&A
Role Purpose
Act as a trusted finance partner to senior stakeholders by delivering and contributing to Forecast, budget, performance management, expert analysis and actionable insights for assigned business units, driving decision support, ensuring robust financial governance, and contributing continuous improvement initiatives, while operating as an individual contributor.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end FP&A processes including Annual budget, forecasts, and monthly performance analysis.
- Detailed P&L analysis, providing meaningful insights on revenue, cost, margin, productivity, and profitability drivers.
- Deliver executive-level variance analysis and commentary explaining business performance, trends and key drivers.
- Partner with finance stakeholders to support decision-making through data-driven insights and financial recommendations.
- Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and influence actions to improve business performance.
- Ensure reporting accuracy and drive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reviews with senior management.
- Active contribution to standardization, simplification, automation, and digitalization of FP&A processes and reporting.
- Act as the primary point of contact for finance and business stakeholders within the assigned scope.
- Identify and implement of AI use cases in FP&A process in respective scope.
- Mentoring and functional guidance to juniors
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance (CA, CMA, CPA, or MBA (Finance) preferred)
- 7-12 years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, or related finance functions.
- Demonstrated experience partnering senior finance leaders
Technical Skills
- Advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel and storytelling skills using PowerPoint.
- Experience with finance tools such as Oracle, Hyperion, Power BI, or similar platforms.
- Experience working on AI use cases / well versed with prompting
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting and business performance analysis.
- Knowledge of automation and reporting solutions is an advantage.
Competencies
- Strong commercial and business acumen. Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to translate complex financial data into business insights and recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision.
- Continuous improvement and automation mindset.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and results orientation.
Key Success Measures
- Timely delivery of management reporting and executive reviews.
- Positive stakeholder feedback and business partnering effectiveness.
- Identification and realization of business performance improvement opportunities.
- Successful implementation of process standardization, automation, and efficiency initiatives.
Why join us
“We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.
Business insight
At Societe Generale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.
Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.
If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
Still hesitating?
You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.
We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies. They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.