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Description
We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow across our collaborative Finance and FP&A teams. The FP&A team supports financial planning, reporting, analysis, and business performance management. This role will also contribute to process improvement and automation initiatives that help streamline recurring activities, improve reporting efficiency, and enhance data-driven decision-making.
Job Overview And Responsibilities
The Associate Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis role will support FP&A activities including reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and business performance reviews. The role will involve working with financial and operational data, partnering with stakeholders, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and automate recurring reporting or analytical tasks. Responsibilities may include:
- Identify opportunities to improve, simplify, and automate FP&A processes such as reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and recurring trackers
- Build and maintain reports, dashboards, trackers, and analytical templates using advanced Excel and other reporting tools
- Use SQL to extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze data from structured finance and operational datasets
- Use Python to automate repetitive tasks, perform data transformation, and support analytical workflows
- Partner with FP&A, finance, operations, and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical automation and analytics solutions
- Assist in documenting current-state and future-state processes, including process flows, controls, assumptions, business rules, and handoff points
- Support data quality checks, reconciliations, variance analysis, and root-cause investigations to strengthen FP&A reporting accuracy
- Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve turnaround time, and enable more consistent financial analysis
- Learn and apply FP&A, finance, data, and technology concepts in a fast-paced business environment
This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.
Qualifications
What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, Technology, Data, or a related quantitative field
- 0–2 years of relevant work experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with the ability to work with large datasets and identify patterns, issues, and improvement opportunities
- Working knowledge of SQL for querying, joining, filtering, validating, and reconciling data
- Working knowledge of Python for data analysis, automation, scripting, or process improvement
- Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data cleaning, structured analysis, and automation-oriented reporting
- Interest in FP&A, financial reporting, process improvement, automation, and data-driven problem solving
- Ability to learn finance concepts and connect business requirements with technology-enabled solutions
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain analysis clearly to finance and business stakeholders
- Ability to manage priorities, learn quickly, and work collaboratively in a team environment
- Position is based in Gurgaon, India
- Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship
- Must be fluent in English, written and spoken
- Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
- Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, cloud platforms, or other reporting and data tools
- Academic project, internship, certification, or hands-on work involving SQL, Python, Excel automation, data analysis, process improvement, or reporting automation
- Basic understanding of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, accounting, or business performance reporting
- Curiosity to learn finance processes and apply technology to solve practical FP&A business problems
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