EXL

Analyzes business data and runs outsourced operations

Senior Manager

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNoida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Proficiency in JIRA and the Microsoft Office Suite.
Experience in the software delivery industry.
Familiarity with agile project management methodologies.
Clear oral and written communication and attention to detail.
Ability to work under indirect supervision, independently, and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with shifting roles and responsibilities.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive discussions and action items to closure.
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to use Excel for numerical analysis, PowerPoint for presentations, and data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Good understanding of implementation projects, the software development life cycle, agile practices, hosting, and deployments.
Excellent understanding of how delivery-project financials are derived, including revenue, cost of goods sold, BOI, and margin.
A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field is required.
10–12 years of total experience in the software services industry, including at least 4 years of experience in strategy, business planning, financial analysis, project management, or management information systems roles.
Strong organizational, multitasking, problem-solving, negotiation, interpersonal, and team-building abilities, including attention to accuracy and the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end project execution across scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder management.
Drive project governance, including status reporting, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies; change management; and transitions.
Ensure alignment with client expectations and contractual commitments.
Manage project budgets, including revenue baselines, cost estimates, and profitability.
Track actuals, burn rate, and forecast remaining costs; identify budget, margin, and delivery risks and drive mitigation actions.
Manage change requests and quantify their impact on revenue, cost, and margins; ensure approvals and incorporate changes into forecasts and budgets.
Collaborate with Sales and Account teams to translate pipeline into delivery forecasts and provide monthly and quarterly revenue forecast inputs at project and business-unit levels.
Align statements-of-work assumptions, delivery plans, and financial forecasts; strengthen the presales-to-delivery handover of financial assumptions.
Lead annual business-unit budget planning with Finance and leadership; translate pipeline, ongoing projects, and strategic initiatives into budget assumptions; build cost and revenue projections across projects, accounts, and delivery units.
Identify investment areas, cost-optimization opportunities, and growth opportunities.
Own and track the business-unit profit and loss across revenue, cost, and margins; monitor actuals against budget and drive corrective actions for variances.
Partner with Finance to ensure accurate revenue recognition, cost allocation, and margin reporting; provide visibility into margin-improvement opportunities.
Prepare executive dashboards on delivery health and financial performance; support leadership reviews with insights on revenue, cost, risks, and opportunities; and drive a structured cadence for financial and delivery governance.
Craft meeting agendas, document action items, and follow up on their closure.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with SQL, Python, or other data tools.
Good listening and consultative skills, including the ability to drive stakeholder meetings and articulate action items.
An MBA.

Own end-to-end project delivery while driving financial ownership at both project and BU level, including annual budget planning, P&L management, and revenue forecasting. Along with Delivery, the role requires close collaboration with Sales, Account Management, and Finance to ensure predictable revenue, cost control, and margin optimization.

Basic Function

Implementation and Delivery Focus

Project Delivery Management

• Lead end-to-end project execution across scope, schedule, quality, and stakeholder management
• Drive governance (status reporting, RAID, change management, transitions)
• Ensure alignment with client expectations and contractual commitments

Project Financial Management

• Manage project budgets including revenue baseline, cost estimates, and profitability
• Track actuals, burn rate, and forecast remaining costs
• Identify risks to budget, margin, and delivery and drive mitigation actions

Change & Commercial Governance

• Manage change requests and quantify impact on revenue, cost, and margins
• Ensure proper approvals and incorporation into forecasts and budgets

BU Focus Areas

Revenue Forecasting & Sales Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Sales and Account teams to translate pipeline into delivery forecasts
• Provide inputs to monthly/quarterly revenue forecasts at project and BU level
• Ensure alignment between SOW assumptions, delivery plans, and financial forecasts
• Strengthen pre-sales to delivery handover for financial assumptions

Annual Budget Planning

• Lead annual budget planning for the Business Unit in coordination with Finance and Leadership
• Translate pipeline, ongoing projects, and strategic initiatives into budget assumptions
• Build cost and revenue projections across projects, accounts, and delivery units
• Identify investment areas, cost optimization levers, and growth opportunities

P&L Management

• Own and track Business Unit P&L across revenue, cost, and margins
• Monitor actuals vs budget and drive corrective actions for variances
• Partner with Finance to ensure accuracy in revenue recognition, cost allocation, and margins
• Provide visibility into margin improvement opportunities

7. Reporting & Governance

• Prepare executive dashboards for delivery health and financial performance
• Support leadership reviews with insights on revenue, cost, risks, and opportunities
• Drive structured cadence for financial and delivery governance

Essential Functions

High sense of ownership and ability to be proactive
Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
Proficiency in JIRA and Microsoft Office Suite.
Excellent ability to drive discussions and track items to closure
Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Experience in the software delivery industry.
Familiarity with agile project management methodologies.

Primary Internal Interactions

Life and Annuities Platform Leadership
Project Managers
Finance and Financial Planning and Analysis teams
Client Partners, Sales and Account Managers

Primary External Interactions

None

Organizational Relationships Reports To : SENIOR ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT Supervises : N/A

Skills
Key Skills	Required Skills Clear oral and written communication High attention to detail Ability to work under indirect supervision Flexible in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities Highly motivated and is at ease with handling or managing multiple workstreams at any one time Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. Excellent analytical, communication, and storytelling skills. Strong proficiency in the following: Excel for number crunching PowerPoint for presentations Data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Experience with SQL, Python, or other data tools is a plus. Good understanding of implementation projects, SDLC, agile practices, hosting, deployments Excellent understanding of how financials are derived for delivery projects would be ideals (Revenue, COGS, BOI, Margin etc)
Process Specific Skills
Soft skills (Desired)	Good listening and consultative skills. Good communication to be able to drive meetings with stakeholders and articulate action items
Soft Skills (Minimum)	Good analytical skills. Excellent communication skills- oral and verbal Strong Team player & ability to build & sustain the team Excellent ability to follow through items for which data is required or needs to be corrected Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability Craft agendas to drive meetings, document action items and diligently follow up on their closure

Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred).
10-12 years of total experience in software service industry, with a minimum of 4 years experience in strategy, business planning, financial analysis, project management or MIS roles.

Essential Functions

High sense of ownership and ability to be proactive
Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
Proficiency in JIRA and Microsoft Office Suite.
Excellent ability to drive discussions and track items to closure
Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Experience in the software delivery industry.
Familiarity with agile project management methodologies.

About the Company

EXL

Analyzes business data and runs outsourced operations

EXL analyzes business data and runs outsourced operations for insurers, healthcare payers, banks, retailers, and other large organizations. Its teams combine industry expertise with data engineering and AI to handle tasks such as claims processing, payment reviews, customer service, and finance within existing technology environments. The company also builds software, including LifePRO, which manages insurance policies, and EXLdata.ai, which connects fragmented data for use in AI systems. Clients pay for consulting projects, ongoing managed services, and software delivered through the cloud. EXL was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1999

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