About this Lead FP&A Analyst role at Thoughtworks
As part of the finance group, we partner with our consulting and operations teams to ensure we make sound financial decisions. You can help Thoughtworks to achieve enduring commercial success and sustainable growth by being an awesome partner to our clients and their ambitious missions.
Those aspirations can include maximizing client revenue opportunities, modeling portfolio profit scenarios, managing costs and expenses or influencing our multi-year business strategy. You can create process improvements to maximize efficiency and accuracy, provide critical analysis to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.
Job responsibilities
- Act as the main finance business partner for the business unit, partnering day-to-day with the Industry Market Leaders and Sales team across all areas of commercial operations.
- Drive financial awareness across business unit stakeholders, translating financial information clearly for both financial and non-financial audiences.
- Support the preparation of executive-ready reporting packages and KPI dashboards for senior stakeholders.
- Lead the commercial review and preparation of client proposals and RFPs.
- Own end-to-end financial oversight of a portfolio of projects - including business case and project modelling/analysis, control of project run rates and KPIs, and ongoing analysis and critical insight to support decision-making.
- Interpret large volumes of complex customer and pricing data to enable more informed business decisions.
- Support regional planning cycles where required, including budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning inputs across APAC.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to junior analysts where opportunities arise, sharing technical and analytical expertise.
- Ad hoc reporting and analysis from the business as required.
Job qualifications
Technical Skills
- CA Singapore, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, or equivalent professional accounting/finance qualification.
- Significant commercial finance or FP&A experience (typically 6+ years), ideally within the software, technology, or SaaS sectors.
- Excellent knowledge of financial modelling and reporting frameworks.
- Experience with ERP systems and tools such as Salesforce, SAP, NetSuite, Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Google Connected Sheets, BigQuery, and Colab is a plus.
- Working awareness of relevant compliance, audit, and statutory reporting requirements, with a process-driven approach to financial and operational controls.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to automate tasks.
Professional Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey financial information concisely to senior and non-financial stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively across teams and functions, influence and negotiate with senior and non-financial stakeholders, and align on approaches.
- Sound judgement and ability to make timely decisions in ambiguous or fast-moving situations with minimal guidance.
- Strong work ethic and a proactive approach to driving efficiencies and improving reporting and analysis.
Other things to know
Learning & Development
There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.
Responsible Use of AI in Recruitment
At Thoughtworks, we use AI tools to support our recruitment team with administrative tasks such as drafting communications, scheduling interviews and writing job descriptions.
Crucially, our AI tools do not screen, assess, rank or make hiring decisions. Every application is reviewed by our team and all selection decisions are made exclusively by our interviewers and hiring managers.
We are committed to fairness and responsible AI. We actively manage our AI systems by testing, monitoring for biased outcomes and implementing mitigation measures. We hold our third-party vendors to these same high standards through a rigorous governance process. For additional information, please see our full Thoughtworks AI Policy for Recruitment.
About Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.
