Senior Financial Analyst

Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A 

Role:  Corporate FP&A 

Location:  Bengaluru 

Job Summary: 

We’re seeking a strategic and driven Senior Financial Analyst – FP&A, to join our dynamic Global Finance Team. This is more than a numbers role – it’s a chance to shape the financial future of a fast-growing company. This Bengaluru-based role is embedded within the nerve center of financial planning and performance reporting. You will be entrusted with providing financial insights that drive decision-making and operational excellence, consolidated financials, working directly with senior stakeholders. This is your chance to be part of a high-impact team where your insights will shape strategy and fuel growth. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning—and we’re excited to grow with you. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Enterprise Consolidation & Reporting: Lead expense and headcount planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting activities across multiple product lines. Deliver insightful financial analysis, variance reporting, and modelling.  

• Monthly Board Reporting: Assist the preparation of the comprehensive Board reporting pack for private equity stakeholders. Ensure absolute precision and clarity in a format that supports strategic decision-making at the highest levels. 

• Ad Hoc Analytics & Insight Generation: Independently lead complex, unstructured data and analyses that deliver actionable insights on trends, variances, and scenario modeling to executive teams. 

• Performance Storytelling: Translate granular data into intuitive visual and narrative outputs, enabling finance and non-finance leaders to make informed decisions. 

• Business Partnership: Collaborate with CXOs and their Directs, Corporate Finance leaders, and various other cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and performance.  

• Data Modelling: Build and maintain cost & revenue models that connect operational activities to financial outcomes. Manage capacity models to inform headcount planning and expense forecasting. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Chartered Accountant (CA), OR 

• MBA in Finance from a top-tier institution. 

• 3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A—ideally in software or payments industry. 

Technical Skills & Competencies: 

• Strong grounding in accounting fundamentals, financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario planning. 

• Expertise in tools: Snowflake (for data extraction/joins), Alteryx (for workflows and transformations), Power BI (for visual analytics), and advanced Excel (modeling, pivots, lookups, arrays), basics of Python (good to have, not mandatory skillset). 

• Experience with Adaptive Planning or similar Planning & Budgeting tools. 

• Reasonable understanding of SaaS metrics, financial KPIs, and technology-driven business models. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills 

Preferred Attributes: 

• Highly dynamic individual comfortable with rapid changes and evolving priorities. 

• Questions the data, understands the “why,” and seeks to improve. 

• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving mindset. 

• Known for delivering accurate, high-stake work under tight deadlines with limited supervision. 

• Enjoys working with sophisticated financial tools and data analytics platforms. 

• Strategic thinker with a technology and data-focused approach to finance. 

Why Join Us? 

At Bottomline, we are transforming the way businesses pay and get paid. As a global leader in business payments and cash management, we provide secure, comprehensive solutions that modernize payments for businesses and financial institutions worldwide. With over 35 years of expertise and more than $16 trillion in payments processed annually, we are committed to delivering innovative financial solutions that add to the bottom line. 

Bottomline is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, one of the largest software private equity firms in the world, with more than $166 billion in assets under management. Our success is driven by our passionate, motivated, and resourceful team members who collaborate, innovate, and push boundaries to create world-class financial products and experiences. 

We operate as One Global Team, empowering one another through our Guiding Principles, which shape our culture and drive our customer-centric approach. By joining us, you will be part of a dynamic environment where ideas are valued, leadership is encouraged, and your contributions help reshape the future of business payments. 

• Be part of a high-growth FinTech company disrupting the industry with innovative solutions. 

• Work closely with global leadership and gain cross-functional exposure. 

• Lead a high-performing FP&A team and shape the financial strategy of the organization. 

• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities.