Finance Controller

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Your Role

As part of the Finance team, you will be responsible for delivering accurate financial insights, supporting management decisions, and ensuring compliance with accounting principles. Your key responsibilities include:

• Variance Analysis: Perform actuals vs. forecast and budget variance analysis on costs with detailed breakdown; challenge actuals where necessary.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly Profit & Loss (P&L) statements and KPI summaries, and analyze trends to provide actionable insights
• Accrual Accounting: Apply accrual-based accounting principles, including matching principle and revenue/cost recognition.
• Revenue Recognition: Ensure accurate revenue recognition in financial statements in line with company policies and accounting standards.
• System Support: Assist in data uploads from GFS to HFM and validate data integrity.
• System Expertise: Utilize GFS and HFM functionalities and reports for financial consolidation and reporting.
• Management Dashboards: Prepare various management dashboards and lead discussions with business leaders on dashboard insights (MIS experience is a strong plus).

Your Profile

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Educational Background: Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field (CA, CMA, MBA Finance preferred).
• Experience:
• Strong experience in financial reporting, variance analysis, and P&L management.
• Hands-on experience with accrual accounting and revenue recognition principles.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in GFS and HFM systems (or similar financial consolidation tools).Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with MIS reporting and dashboard preparation
• Analytical Skills: Ability to interpret financial data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills for discussions with business leaders.
• Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy in financial reporting and compliance activities.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.