Finance Business Partner CDH

Location: New Delhi, India

**ERM** is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organisations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.

The **Global Delivery Centre** (GDC) in Gurugram is ERM’s global operating backbone. It delivers business enablement services in Finance, HR, IT, and Commercial Operations to ensure ERM’s global business runs seamlessly, efficiently, and consistently.

At the GDC, you will:

· Be part of a hub that ensures ERM’s business continuity worldwide.

· Collaborate with colleagues across geographies to support global operations.

· Drive consistency, compliance, and efficiency in core functions.

· Work with digital, automation, and AI-enabled tools to optimise how ERM operates.

· Work in shifts where required, depending on the role. As processes mature and automation increases, reliance on shifts will reduce.

## Why this role matters?

As a **Commercial Finance Business Partner – Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH)**, you will support ERM's global delivery by providing financial planning, commercial analysis, performance management, and decision support to the Consulting Delivery Hub. You will work within the Finance team, partnering with CDH Leadership, Country Leadership, Operations, GDC Finance, and Regional Finance stakeholders to drive business performance, financial governance, workforce planning, and profitable growth. This role is critical in enabling data-driven decision-making, improving financial transparency, optimizing resource utilization, and supporting the sustainable expansion of the CDH across regions.

## What your impact is?

• Drive accurate budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting that enables informed and timely business decisions.
• Improve visibility of revenue, margin, utilisation, productivity, headcount efficiency, and cost drivers across the CDH.
• Develop executive dashboards and performance insights that support strategic planning and operational excellence.
• Strengthen financial governance, controls, and compliance across expenses, procurement, intercompany transactions, and cost allocations.
• Support workforce planning, capacity management, and commercial scenario modelling to optimize resource deployment and profitability.
• Partner with leadership teams to identify growth opportunities, improve commercial outcomes, and enhance financial accountability across the organization.

## What you'll bring:

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (CA, CMA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, MBA Finance, or equivalent) with experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, financial analysis, and performance management.
• Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders and influence decision-making through commercial and financial insights.
• Experience developing financial models, business cases, scenario planning, workforce economics, and capacity planning analyses.
• Strong understanding of revenue, margin, utilization, realization, productivity, cost management, and profitability drivers.
• Experience creating executive dashboards and management reporting using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar analytics platforms.
• Experience working with global teams, shared services, delivery centers, or matrix organizations.
• Excellent analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.

## Preferred:

• Experience supporting consulting, professional services, shared services, offshore delivery, or global capability center environments.
• Exposure to intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, chargeback models, and cost allocation methodologies.
• Experience partnering with international finance and operational teams across multiple regions.
• Familiarity with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar financial systems.
• Experience leveraging automation, AI-enabled reporting, and advanced analytics tools to improve planning and reporting processes.

## Key responsibilities:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for the Consulting Delivery Hub, ensuring accurate and timely outputs.
• Monitor and analyze revenue, margin, utilization, realization, productivity, headcount efficiency, and cost performance to identify risks and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain executive dashboards, performance reporting, and management review materials for leadership teams.
• Partner with CDH leadership on workforce planning, utilization management, capacity forecasting, and organizational productivity initiatives.
• Support financial close processes, financial controls, governance activities, and audit requirements to ensure data accuracy and compliance.
• Manage reporting and oversight of expenses, procurement, intercompany transactions, cost allocations, and expenditure governance.
• Provide commercial analysis, pricing support, business case evaluations, and scenario modelling to support growth and investment decisions.
• Act as a trusted finance adviser to CDH and Country Leadership, providing actionable insights and recommendations to improve business performance.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and drive continuous enhancement of reporting, analytics, and financial management practices.
• Promote financial awareness, accountability, and data-driven decision-making across the CDH and its regional stakeholders.

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance.

ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.

Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).

Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.

We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth.

At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

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