Financial Analysis Manager II

Ecolab is seeking a Senior FP&A Transformation Leader to lead the modernization of FP&A insights and reporting Globally by enabling scalable, interactive, and AI-enabled analytics.

What’s in it For You: 

• Join a growth company offering a competitive salary and benefits.

• Make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.

• Be supported by an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best.

• Feel proud each day to work for a company that provides clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments.

What You Will Do: 

• This role is based in Pune, India (hybrid). You will partner across Finance, Technology, Data, and Analytics to transform how the business consumes FP&A insights—moving from static reporting to interactive, self-service, and AI-enabled decision support system 

Where You’ll Make a Difference 

• Lead end-to-end transformation of FP&A dashboards—evolving static reporting into interactive, AI-enabled insights that support decision-making.

• Standardization across region, FP&A reporting using standard Tools Technology stack 

• Partner with Technology, Data, and Analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable analytics products and AI-driven solutions.

• Define, standardize, and govern finance logic, KPIs, and insight narratives embedded in dashboards to drive consistent outcomes.

• Design intuitive self-service experiences (Copilot-like finance insights) that deliver fast, relevant, decision-ready information.

• Serve as the finance approval authority for dashboard designs, analytics models, and automated insights—ensuring alignment to finance governance and business priorities.

• Drive stakeholder adoption and value realization of analytics solutions across global finance and business partners.

• Demonstrate ownership and accountability with a sustained focus on business impact, value creation, and continuous improvement.

Key Stakeholders & Operating Model

• Partner with Divisional Finance leadership and FP&A teams to translate planning, forecasting, and performance needs into dashboard roadmaps and prioritized releases.

• Work closely with Global BI / Data & Analytics teams (e.g., MAP 2.0 / FP&A datasets) to ensure scalable design, data quality, and performance.

• Collaborate with Finance Systems and enterprise data/platform teams to align to governance, security access, refresh SLAs, and change management processes.

• Engage with functional and adjacent finance partners (e.g., CP&A, Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Finance) to standardize KPIs and definitions across reporting suites.

Success Measures (First 6–12 Months)

• Deliver a prioritized transformation roadmap and release cadence for NA FP&A dashboards (with clear scope, owners, milestones, and sign-offs).

• Improve usability and stakeholder adoption of the reporting suite (measured through active users, repeat usage, and stakeholder feedback from UX sessions).

• Strengthen trust in data and definitions by establishing standard KPI logic, tie-out routines, and governance documentation for key dashboards.

• Reduce manual effort and cycle time for recurring FP&A insights (e.g., month-end and forecast cycles) through automation and self-serve analytics.

• Launch at least 2–3 high-value enhancements (e.g., open orders / MTG projection views, daily movement “walks”, persona-based insight narratives) with measurable business impact.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• 12–14+ years of experience in Finance, FP&A, and/or Finance Transformation roles within complex or matrixed environments.

• Proven experience leading dashboard, analytics, or reporting transformations, including modernization of FP&A insights.

• Strong understanding of financial statements, performance management, and enterprise-level financial metrics.

• Hands-on exposure to BI tools and analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI or similar) and familiarity with AI-enabled reporting solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable business insights and storylines.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage diverse global audiences.

How Would You Stand Out? 

• Experience operating in a global or multi-regional context with an understanding of standard finance governance, access controls, and sign-off processes.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align Finance, Technology, and business teams on priorities, tradeoffs, and delivery timelines.

• Experience with modern data and BI stacks (e.g., Power BI, semantic models, SQL; familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Azure and/or Snowflake).

• A product mindset—comfortable running discovery, defining personas and user journeys, and delivering iterative releases (Agile) with measurable outcomes.

Qualifications: 

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related field (MBA preferred).

• Experience leading finance transformation programs, including process, reporting, and/or analytics modernization.

• Proficiency applying automation and AI concepts to strengthen analytics capability (e.g., driver-based insights, forecasting enablement, narrative generation).

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, global environment.

Tooling & Technical Preferences: 

• Strong Power BI capability (data modeling, DAX fundamentals, performance optimization, and dashboard UX best practices).

• Data scientist having worked in Global Projects including  FP&A transformation 

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and pipelines (e.g., Azure services and/or Snowflake) and an understanding of refresh SLAs and data quality controls.

• Understanding of security and governance concepts (role-based access, personas, finance definition control, change management, and production deployment discipline).

• Understanding of AI products that can be scaled at an Enterprise level for FP&A Analytics 

Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin,citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.