Assistant Manager - Operations-REF84703M

Job Description – Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Lead

Role Purpose

Lead the organization’s Financial Planning & Analysis function by driving budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and strategic decision support. Act as a trusted business partner to senior leadership, ensuring financial insights translate into effective operational and strategic actions.

Key Responsibilities

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead the annual budgeting process and develop rolling forecasts aligned with business strategy

• Partner with business functions to understand key performance drivers, cost structures, and growth initiatives

• Develop robust financial models to support planning, scenario analysis, and resource allocation

• Ensure accountability for finalizing, implementing, and governing the financial planning and budgeting process

Financial Analysis & Reporting

• Develop, manage, and enhance the organization’s Management Information Systems (MIS) to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable reporting aligned with management requirements

• Manage all internal and external financial reporting requirements

• Analyse business performance against budgets, forecasts, and targets, including variance analysis and recommendations for corrective actions

• Provide insightful financial analysis to support executive and board-level decision making

Business Partnering

• Work cross-functionally with Operations, Sales, Procurement, and other key stakeholders

• Support decision-making through what-if analysis, scenario modelling, and sensitivity analysis

• Evaluate capital investments, pricing strategies, and cost-saving initiatives to improve profitability

• Partner closely with the Controller and senior leadership on financial management, commercial decisions, target setting, and execution

Strategic Projects

• Contribute to long-range financial planning and profitability analysis

• Support strategic initiatives including M&A, new business launches, restructurings, and transformation projects

• Assist in the preparation of board, investor, and executive presentations

Systems & Process Improvement

• Drive enhanced use of ERP, BI, and planning tools such as SAP, NetSuite, Power BI, Anaplan, or similar platforms

• Lead automation initiatives to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial reporting and models

• Continuously improve financial processes, data quality, and accessibility across the organization

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Domain expert in FP&A processes, including management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end FP&A transformation projects

• Strong understanding of digital technologies, automation, analytics, and their application within FP&A

• Action-oriented, results-driven, and self-motivated with high energy and attention to quality

• Analytical, structured thinker with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, project-oriented environment

• Strong team player with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across functions

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience across accounting, financial systems, and/or finance transformation roles

• Strong understanding of Record-to-Report (R2R) and FP&A processes, controls, and reporting requirements

• Demonstrated success in leading or supporting financial systems implementations, with strong stakeholder engagement and change management capabilities

• Experience managing large, multidisciplinary projects, such as ERP implementations, finance transformations, or accounting co-sourcing engagements

About the Company

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. We combine our deep industry knowledge with technology and analytics expertise to co-create innovative, digital-led transformational solutions with clients across 10 industries. We enable businesses in Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare, and Utilities to re-imagine their digital future and transform their outcomes with operational excellence.We deliver an entire spectrum of BPM services in finance and accounting, procurement, customer interaction services and human resources leveraging collaborative models that are tailored to address the unique business challenges of each client. We co-create and execute the future vision of 400+ clients with the help of our 44,000+ employees.