Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Candescent is hiring an FP&A Manager based in India to play a critical role in supporting the company’s financial planning, analysis, reporting, and business performance management activities.

This role will partner closely with U.S.-based FP&A leadership, business unit leaders, Accounting, Procurement, Technology, IT, Marketing, InfoSec, Sales, and other corporate stakeholders to deliver high-quality financial insights, executive-ready reporting, and disciplined forecast management.

The ideal candidate will bring strong FP&A experience, hands-on expertise with enterprise planning platforms such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Pigment, Oracle EPM, SAP BPC, Planful, or similar tools, and strong Power BI capabilities. This person should be comfortable working with large data sets, building scalable reporting processes, improving forecast workflows, and translating financial results into clear business implications.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables

FP&A, Forecasting & Financial Reviews

• Own monthly actuals vs. budget/forecast analysis across multiple departments, including Technology, IT, Marketing, InfoSec, Sales, and corporate functions.

• Prepare clean, CFO-ready variance explanations with clear business drivers — not just reconciliations.

• Support rolling forecasts, reforecasts, annual planning, and scenario analysis, including assumptions, risks, opportunities, and key sensitivities.

• Partner with business leaders to understand performance trends, operating drivers, headcount changes, vendor spend, and investment priorities.

• Build and maintain durable financial models that can ingest raw data with minimal manual manipulation.

• Help drive forecast accuracy, consistency, and accountability across supported business areas.

Enterprise Planning Tool Ownership & Process Support

• Serve as a key FP&A power user for the company’s enterprise planning platform (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Pigment, Oracle EPM, Planful, SAP BPC).

• Support planning model maintenance, forecast versioning, data loads, reporting structures, assumptions, mappings, and user workflows.

• Partner with FP&A leadership to improve budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and scenario planning processes within the planning platform.

• Reduce reliance on manual Excel processes through automation, improved data structure, and scalable system design.

• Support planning tool implementation, enhancements, testing, documentation, and adoption.

• Ensure data consistency across ERP, planning tools, BI dashboards, and management reporting outputs.

Power BI, Reporting & Dashboarding

• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards for monthly reporting, business reviews, and executive insights.

• Develop intuitive dashboards covering budget vs. actuals, forecast trends, vendor spend, department performance, and key KPIs.

• Use Power Query, DAX, and data modeling to transform raw financial data into actionable insights.

• Automate recurring reporting and reduce manual tracker dependency.

• Partner with stakeholders to continuously improve reporting usability and accuracy.

Spend Governance & Budget Discipline

• Manage the out-of-budget request process, including intake, tracking, and committee-ready summaries.

• Identify missing business cases, ROI analysis, approvals, or funding rationale.

• Act as a finance gatekeeper for unplanned spend to ensure alignment with funding strategy and policies.

• Track approvals and provide summaries for CFO, ELT, and PE reporting.

• Reinforce budget ownership and spend discipline across functions.

Vendor, Cloud & Tool Spend Oversight

• Analyze vendor-level spend and renewals across technology, SaaS, cloud, and marketing tools.

• Support cloud spend forecasting and optimization with IT and Engineering.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities including consolidation and rationalization of tools.

• Partner with Accounting and Procurement on invoice accuracy, accruals, and timing.

• Highlight risks, run-rate changes, and optimization opportunities.

Executive & Stakeholder Support

• Prepare executive-ready reporting, dashboards, and one-pagers for CFO, ELT, and board-level discussions.

• Support monthly business reviews with clear insights, drivers, and follow-ups.

• Translate financial insights into actionable business implications for non-finance leaders.

• Provide proactive recommendations on risks and opportunities.

Process & Control Enhancement

• Improve forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes, templates, and workflows.

• Enforce finance policies related to spend, approvals, and vendor management.

• Reduce manual work and ambiguity through automation and structured processes.

• Strengthen financial controls and improve data quality across systems.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or business finance.

• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and management reporting.

• Hands-on experience with enterprise planning tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment, Oracle EPM, Planful, SAP BPC, etc.).

• Strong proficiency in Power BI (DAX, Power Query, data models, dashboards).

• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets.

• Strong understanding of financial statements and expense management.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, global environment and support U.S. stakeholders across time zones.

Preferred Distinctions

• Experience in fintech, SaaS, or high-growth environments.

• Experience in private equity-backed companies.

• Background in planning tool implementations or reporting transformations.

• Exposure to cloud/technology spend management.

• MBA, CA, CPA, CFA, or similar certifications (preferred).

Ideal Candidate Profile

A hands-on FP&A leader who combines strong financial acumen with system and reporting expertise. The candidate should be equally comfortable in enterprise planning tools, Power BI dashboards, and executive discussions, with a focus on improving forecast accuracy, reporting quality, and financial discipline across the business.

Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.