Financial Analyst & Controller

Description

Financial Analyst & Controller

Designation: Junior Financial Analyst

Department: Marketing & Sales

Company: Hitachi India Private Limited

Mission:

As a trusted partner to Hitachi’s Global Marketing & Sales (GM&S) function, you lead the financial transformation agenda—connecting performance intelligence, cost transparency, and digital innovation to shape smarter, faster decisions across all stakeholders.

You ensure that financial and operational data is not only accurate, but deeply insightful. By aligning order performance, cost structures, and forecasting across business units, you create a unified financial narrative that drives transparency, consistency, and strategic clarity.

Your work empowers leadership to act boldly—with confidence grounded in data, and vision guided by precision. You don’t just report performance; you architect the financial backbone of GM&S Performance Management.

Key Responsibilities

Account Management Performance:

• Lead the consolidation, validation, and analysis of monthly and quarterly order intake, forecasts, and pipeline data across GM&S, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in reporting.

• Synthesize complex datasets into actionable insights, identifying performance gaps, emerging risks, and growth opportunities to inform executive decision-making.

• Design and manage annual budgeting cycles, rolling forecasts, and multi-year financial scenarios, ensuring alignment with One-Hitachi’s strategic objectives and global financial governance standards.

• Partner with regional and global stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of financial planning processes across selected accounts, subsidiaries and business functions.

Cost Management & Operational Efficiencies

• Oversee the end-to-end process of cost reporting by hosting units, including monthly and quarterly consolidation, forecast validation, and variance analysis for GM&S performance metrics.

• Translate business unit-level performance into strategic group-level narratives, highlighting inefficiencies, cost-saving opportunities, and investment needs.

• Architect and implement transparent cost allocation models for shared resources, particularly employees operating across multiple BUs and functions—ensuring equitable distribution and financial clarity.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with HR, Finance, and Japan HQ to reconcile headcount, FTEs, actual expenditures, and bonus accruals, maintaining data integrity and audit readiness.

Transformation, Automation & Digital Enablement:

• Champion the harmonization of fragmented workflows across global entities, eliminating manual redundancies and driving operational consistency.

• Spearhead the deployment of digital solutions to unify order, cost, and performance tracking systems, enhancing visibility and control across subsidiaries.

• Develop and implement automation frameworks using Excel VBA, Power BI, and Power Apps to streamline data collection, validation, and reporting—reducing turnaround time and human error and improve usage of AI/ML in reporting.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying automation opportunities and training teams on digital tools and best practices.

Internal Control & Compliance

• • Establish and maintain robust internal control frameworks to ensure compliance with corporate policies, financial regulations, and audit requirements.
• • Conduct periodic reviews of financial processes and reporting mechanisms to identify gaps, recommend corrective actions, and mitigate operational risks.
• • Implement segregation of duties, approval hierarchies, and access controls across financial systems to safeguard data integrity and prevent unauthorized transactions

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership:

• Initiate and institutionalize standardized reporting frameworks across business units and sectors, laying the foundation for consistent performance tracking and strategic alignment.

• Act as a strategic liaison between Sales Operations, HR, PMO, and Communications teams to ensure compliance with corporate policies, enhance transparency, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

• Deliver high-impact presentations to senior leadership, translating performance analytics into strategic roadmaps and growth initiatives.

• Cultivate trust and influence across diverse stakeholder groups by aligning financial insights with GM&S priorities and long-term vision.

Qualifications, Attributes, & Experience

• Results-oriented, self-motivated, and proactive finance professional

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to balance high-level insight with operational detail

• Master’s degree in business, Finance, or related field or

• 6+ years in Project Controlling and Marketing & Sales environments

• Extensive experience in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cost control

• Skilled in cost estimation, financial analysis, and performance tracking

• Proficient in financial automation tools and digital reporting systems

• Advanced Excel, VBA, DAX in Power BI, proficiency in AI/ML usage

• Strong data modeling and visualization capabilities

• Expertise in process harmonization and large-scale automation

• Effective stakeholder management and executive-level communication

• High cultural sensitivity; adept at working across global time zones

• Fluent in English; Japanese proficiency is a significant advantage