Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

Straive · India

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