Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Company Description

ARE YOU READY TO WORK AT ALTISOURCE?
Are you interested in joining a progressive and growing People Solutions team?
Can you help solve business problems with people solutions?
Are you ready to work for a successful and proven company where ownership, accountability and performance are rewarded?

If so, nice to meet you, join the team at Altisource®. We can offer you a fast-paced and driven working environment with challenging work and great colleagues as well as career development opportunities.
This role reports to the Manager, Employee Experience who is seeking an energetic and skilled self-starter to work in our People Solutions organization and drive talent initiatives that will have direct impact on the company’s business performance and employee experience. If you are up for the challenge, keep reading!

Altisource is a leader in providing services and technology for the mortgage and real estate industries. With innovation as a guiding principle and a focus on compliance and exceptional service, we provide end-to-end solutions in origination and servicing, and offer online real estate platforms for consumers and investors.

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptionally smart, articulate, and ambitious individual to join our FP&A team. In this role, you will drive financial management and profitability of the business by leading or directly influencing the development, planning and execution of our business strategy. You will manage the financial outcomes by creating and establishing effective financial controls, implementing dashboard-based management tools for the various business units you support, and collaborating with business unit leaders and finance partners to develop and maintain operating plans.

In this role, you will be directly reporting to the Director FP&A, and will be working closely with business partners, stakeholders and the wider Altisource business team to drive an effective financial control and planning process to shape business strategy.

You will also bring in financial control through a structured outcome-orientated approach, creating specific implementation plans and governance structures, and generating transparency through measurement and feedback.

This Bangalore-based role is a remote position. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Lead the financial planning and analysis process through an operating model framework.
• Prepare and distribute monthly financial statement reports and analysis to management; ensure tracking of appropriate risks and opportunities to support financial goal attainment.
• Lead the annual budget and forecast process.
• Aggregate and perform variance analysis (revenue rate, volume, product mix, gross profit margin) and, where applicable, make recommendations to address unfavorable variances.
• Support monthly/quarterly executive and operational reporting.
• Engage with wider finance and corporate groups (accounting, technology, HR, vendor management) as needed to effectively manage the financials.
• Assist with special ad-hoc projects as necessary.

Qualifications

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• CA or MBA in Finance from a Tier-1 B-school
• 5+ years of experience in financial problem-solving in high ownership/high impact areas, including financial consulting.
• Experience in a multi-national company.
• Knowledge of financial applications within FP&A, understanding of data relations and interdependencies.
• Strong functional knowledge of accounting principles.
• Extensive experience in operational finance, serving as a primary financial partner to functional or divisional leadership.
• Excellent analytical, financial modeling, and presentation skills; ability to analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Detail-oriented, capable of identifying and reconciling discrepancies in financials.
• Prior experience in the US real estate or mortgage industries is a plus.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, Oracle, SAP, or related software.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining business intelligence tools, such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, Tableau.