Director FP&A - Automations and AI

 Job Title: Director, Finance Technology & Analytics 

Role: COE – Tech Team 

Location: Bengaluru 

 

Job Summary: 

We’re seeking a strategic and driven Director, Finance of Technology & Analytics, to join our dynamic Global Finance Team. This is more than a numbers role – it’s a chance to shape the financial future of a fast-growing company. The successful candidate will lead the technology, systems, data, analytics, and transformation agenda for the FP&A organization. This role will serve as the strategic bridge between Finance, Data, Engineering, and IT, with accountability for the FP&A technology roadmap, platform strategy, data governance, automation, analytics, and transformation delivery. 

The Director will lead the FP&A technology team and drive scalable, reliable, and well-controlled capabilities across planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support, enabling FP&A to operate more efficiently and deliver stronger business insights. 

This is your chance to be part of a high-impact team where your insights will shape strategy and fuel growth. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning—and we’re excited to grow with you. 

 

Key Responsibilities: 

• FP&A Technology Strategy: Own and execute the FP&A technology and transformation roadmap, aligning investments and priorities with Finance and business objectives. 

• Planning Systems: Provide strategic ownership and governance of Workday Adaptive Planning and related planning capabilities supporting budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, workforce planning, and scenario analysis. 

• Analytics & Reporting: Lead the FP&A analytics strategy across Power BI, OfficeConnect, Adaptive reporting, and other BI tools, enabling executive reporting, actionable insights, and governed self-service analytics. 

• Data & Integration: Partner with Data and Engineering teams to strengthen FP&A data architecture, governance, taxonomy, integrations, and data flows across Snowflake, Adaptive, ERP/HCM/CRM platforms, and reporting solutions. 

• Automation & AI: Identify and deliver automation, AI, advanced analytics, and workflow opportunities that reduce manual effort, improve controls, accelerate planning/reporting cycles, and enhance decision support. 

• Transformation Leadership: Lead strategic FP&A transformation initiatives from business case and solution design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. 

• Architecture & Governance: Establish standards for solution architecture, system access, data quality, testing, change management, documentation, controls, and production releases. 

• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the senior FP&A technology partner to Finance leadership and collaborate closely with IT, Data Strategy, Engineering, Accounting, HR, and other business teams. 

• People Leadership: Lead, develop, and mentor the FP&A technology, BI, systems, and analytics team while building strong technical capability, succession, and operational resilience. 

• Adoption & Enablement: Drive user adoption, training, documentation, knowledge sharing, and data literacy to enable effective and controlled self-service across Finance. 

 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or a related quantitative discipline and MBA, master’s in finance/Analytics/Information Systems, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.  

• 10+ years of progressive experience across FP&A, financial systems, analytics, data, or finance transformation, including leadership of teams and complex cross-functional initiatives. 

• Strong executive communication and ability to translate Finance requirements into scalable technology solutions. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner across Finance, IT, Data, Engineering, and senior leadership. 

 

Technical Skills & Competencies: 

• Planning and Performance Management: Workday Adaptive Planning or comparable EPM platforms; budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, scenario modelling, and management reporting. 

• Analytics and Visualization: Power BI, Tableau, Metabases, OfficeConnect, Adaptive reports, or comparable reporting technologies. 

• Data and Cloud Platforms: Snowflake, Azure, enterprise data warehouses, relational databases, and modern Finance data architectures.