Director - Finance Business Partner
- Recruiter
- Technicolor SA
- Location
- Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 02 Mar 2021
- Closes
- 03 Mar 2021
- Ref
- 4373713952
- Job role
- Finance business partner, Finance director
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Director
Director - Commercial Finance Business Partner
Location: Bangalore
The company
Technicolor Production Service Division (PS) provides a full range of production and post production services for feature films, TV, Advertising and Games.
The Role
Reporting to the PS Head of Commercial Finance, the Commercial Finance Director will lead a new finance business partnering team. This team will be responsible for providing a professional finance, commercial support service to the respective business unit, service line and PS management team. You will be a core member of the PS Finance Community working collaboratively with fellow FP&A and Financial Control & Accounting teams to ensure best practice and deliver expertise in a cross-section of financial activities.
The role interacts with finance colleagues across Europe and North America. Therefore, flexibility is required as the role will often require calls outside of normal working hours.
Key responsibilities
You will build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior managers and their teams. You will be expected to lead on financial and resource matters; influence decision-making; improve the understanding of business performance; developing and delivering service line strategy; delivering analysis and insight on business opportunities; working with FP&A to provide options and scenarios for business decisions.
You will manage a team made up of project controllers and responsible for evaluating development needs and ensuring that your staff undertake relevant CPD/training where required. You will be expected to work with your peers and other finance colleagues to ensure consistency of practice and continuous improvement activity across your service line, and PS.
Key activities include:
Skills and experience
Essential:
Minimum 15 years relevant experience with 5 years in a finance leadership role.
A professional Accountancy Qualification with evidence of up-to-date knowledge and relevant management accounting experience.
Job Description
• Financial and commercial acumen and leadership when undertaking financial reviews and assessments; applying judgement and providing direction on outcomes.
• Experience of working on a project team and supporting and advising on major financial decisions.
• Demonstrable negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolutions skills.
• Evidenced excellent written and oral communication skills, ensuring clarity of messages, ideas and facts.
Desirable:
• Experience of working in a large complex organisation.
• Experience of working in a Technology, Media & Entertainment environment.
Location: Bangalore
The company
Technicolor Production Service Division (PS) provides a full range of production and post production services for feature films, TV, Advertising and Games.
The Role
Reporting to the PS Head of Commercial Finance, the Commercial Finance Director will lead a new finance business partnering team. This team will be responsible for providing a professional finance, commercial support service to the respective business unit, service line and PS management team. You will be a core member of the PS Finance Community working collaboratively with fellow FP&A and Financial Control & Accounting teams to ensure best practice and deliver expertise in a cross-section of financial activities.
The role interacts with finance colleagues across Europe and North America. Therefore, flexibility is required as the role will often require calls outside of normal working hours.
Key responsibilities
You will build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior managers and their teams. You will be expected to lead on financial and resource matters; influence decision-making; improve the understanding of business performance; developing and delivering service line strategy; delivering analysis and insight on business opportunities; working with FP&A to provide options and scenarios for business decisions.
You will manage a team made up of project controllers and responsible for evaluating development needs and ensuring that your staff undertake relevant CPD/training where required. You will be expected to work with your peers and other finance colleagues to ensure consistency of practice and continuous improvement activity across your service line, and PS.
Key activities include:
- Providing financial leadership to the Executive/senior Management team in India and globally.
Work with the business to identify key risks and opportunities and ensure these are mitigated or delivered. - With support from FP&A provide analysis to the Business Heads, Executive Producers and MDs on the profitability of each show and provide insight into opportunities and risks.
Proactively identifying areas to maximize value and profitability by driving commercial analysis
Providing analysis to the business on opportunities and risks with changes to shows/projects. - Driving finance transformation.
- Responsible for the India element of project controlling of all projects, ensuring accurate revenue recognition, optimising margins and enabling the producers to deliver profitable projects.
- Assist business unit management team in decision-making process, business cases, contract margin.
- Work with the shared functions such as Global Business Services (GBS), Group Tax, and Group Treasury ensuring that key financial controls are in place and required outputs are delivered accurately and on time.
- Assist GBS & Group Tax in providing information to tax authorities for renegotiating APAs.
Skills and experience
Essential:
Minimum 15 years relevant experience with 5 years in a finance leadership role.
A professional Accountancy Qualification with evidence of up-to-date knowledge and relevant management accounting experience.
Job Description
• Financial and commercial acumen and leadership when undertaking financial reviews and assessments; applying judgement and providing direction on outcomes.
• Experience of working on a project team and supporting and advising on major financial decisions.
• Demonstrable negotiation, relationship building, and conflict resolutions skills.
• Evidenced excellent written and oral communication skills, ensuring clarity of messages, ideas and facts.
Desirable:
• Experience of working in a large complex organisation.
• Experience of working in a Technology, Media & Entertainment environment.