FP&A Analytics & Digitization Solution delivery project Senior Analyst

FP&A Analytics & Digitization Solution Delivery Project Senior Analyst

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Job Overview

This role will sit within the Finance FBT organization, in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), specializing in Finance project delivery, ideally with experience of Planning & Performance Management (PPM) process, data and system transformation. It resides in Pune, BP Business Solutions and is available for relocation within the country. The position is full‑time and requires a Professionals job type, with up to 10% travel expected.

Business Entity

The role will be accountable for delivering the business FBT Digital Innovation team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of Analytics and Digitization projects as per pre‑defined landmarks, leading timely completion of all deliverables whilst managing resources, deadlines and budgetary requirements.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and partners.
• Develop detailed and comprehensive project plans and schedule project timelines and landmarks using appropriate tools.
• Effectively communicate and manage project expectations to team members and partners in a timely and clear fashion.
• Review the work packages for each workstream owner, validate schedule, dependencies, and resource utilisation across work plans.
• Own management of partner expectation alignment gaps and/or gaps in meeting client expectations.
• Establish project governance including all partners and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.
• Identify and resolve project risks/issues and potential conflicts within the project team—oversee the implementation of corrective actions and review current mitigation and recovery activities.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Continually analyse lessons learned and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Align with project management standards and register mandatory project deliverables for quality assurance purposes.
• Support our portfolio priority projects across Analytics and Digitization, leading a multi‑disciplinary project team of technical and design professionals.
• Produce material to support work streams, governance, reporting, tracking and engagement to ensure success.
• Experience of project management delivery techniques including both Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience of system deployments and Dev Ops.
• Experience of using Azure Dev Ops for Agile management.
• Understanding of change management principles and experience in applying them.
• Demonstrated ability of assessing and managing the impact of project changes, communicating effectively with partners and guiding teams through deployments.
• Finance background, and experienced project manager with grounding knowledge of end‑to‑end financial processes, particularly PPM processes.
• Able to describe and discuss industry and BP specific challenges in leading business and technical transformation; can demonstrate an understanding of organisational change dynamics and how these impact cultural change.
• Able to bring together and energise teams effectively across organisational and cultural boundaries to achieve ambitious transformation goals.
• A capable influencer, able to use a range of styles to achieve objectives working with partners of all levels.
• Able to cut through key issues and challenges and rapidly resolve with the right level of agreement and support both from the Finance and Business teams.
• Clear and concise communicator – able to build awareness and support of the wider Finance and Business community.
• Able to make the abstract and complex simple – understanding complex system, data and workflow requirements and translating into simple language to enable business decision making and prioritisation.
• Balanced risk mindset, able to evaluate and manage risk effectively and advise on risk‑based decisions and plans.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous…