We create stunning visual effects for film and episodic projects. The way we work shapes the work we make. Were hiring a Manager, Business Analyst to drive data-driven insights, process improvements, and strategic decision-making. This hybrid role offers exposure across multiple business functions. This role will require 5+ years of experience and will be working from our Goregaon, Mumbai office.

Key responsibilities

Show performance reporting: Build and maintain show-level performance reporting covering revenue, cost, margin, utilisation, recoverability, realised rate and shots-in-progress against budget.
Produce weekly performance packs explaining not just what moved, but why margin moved, where bench sits, and which shows need attention.
Maintain the master KPI framework across the group definitions, sources and calculations covering realised rate, utilisation, efficiency, labour cost per hour, workforce mix and show margin.
Rate card and economic model: Maintain the rate-card / EBITDA model and its underlying assumptions (pricing, utilisation, efficiency, workforce mix, labour cost and cloud cost allocation).
Translate rate-card and pricing assumptions into actionable business reporting.
Provide modelling support for bid and quoting decisions using prior show performance, resource costs and benchmarks.
Group-wide finance analysis: Produce payroll, labour-cost and people-cost analysis by department, by location, by show; Produce departmental cost analysis, utilisation reporting and bench analysis.
Prepare and post monthly payroll journal ensuring payroll costs, taxes and benefits, bonuses and accruals are accurately recorded.
Support headcount reporting and analysis across UK, Montreal and Mumbai; surface areas of concern, variance against budget and commercial opportunity for the Commercial FD and leadership team to act on.
Data and systems: Extract, clean and integrate data from production systems (Shotgun, Ftrack or equivalent), HR and payroll systems, and Xero; Build and maintain reporting tools in Power BI or equivalent BI platform; Develop and improve data pipelines so that operational data flows into finance reporting with minimum manual intervention; Document data sources, definitions and refresh cadences so the reporting is reproducible and not dependent on a single person.
Commercial finance support: Provide the Commercial FD with reforecast inputs, margin analysis and pipeline reporting; Contribute to budgeting and planning cycles with show-level, departmental and historical labour-economics analysis; Prepare clear, well-structured analyses to enable senior decisions the role facilitates the challenge to producers and operations leads rather than leading it directly.
Cross-team working: Work closely with show producers and operations leads across UK, Canada and India to source the right data; Partner with HR and payroll on people-cost reporting and headcount analysis; Coordinate with the broader Mumbai finance team under pastoral leadership of the Senior Finance Manager.

Skills and qualifications Essential

Strong SQL and proven experience building reporting in Power BI, Tableau or equivalent
Advanced Excel modelling, complex formulas, Power Query
Demonstrable experience working with operational and financial data in a project-based, people-intensive business (VFX, post-production, animation, agency, architecture, consulting or similar)
Understands the economic model of a service business rate card, utilisation, realised rate, bench, labour cost and how operational decisions translate to margin
Finance literacy PL, margins, contribution, working capital and able to connect operational data to financial outcomes
Strong written communication; produces clear, well-structured analysis that supports senior decision-making
Curious and self-directed; willing to dig into data to find the story rather than waiting to be told what to look for
5+ years relevant experience

Desirable

Light scripting (Python or similar) to extract and transform data from production system APIs
Experience of Xero or similar cloud accounting platforms
Experience of Shotgun, Ftrack or other VFX production tracking systems
Accountancy qualification (part-qualified, qualified or qualified-by-experience)
Exposure to creative industries, VFX, post-production, animation or media
Experience working with payroll and HR data

Personal attributes

Intellectually curious; wants to understand why the numbers are what they are, not just report them
Pragmatic; comfortable building something good enough fast, then iterating
Strong documenter; builds reproducible processes, not personal knowledge silos
Discreet; handles sensitive payroll and people data with appropriate care
Confident working across time zones with UK and Mumbai-based colleagues

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Manager - Business Analyst

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