FP&A Analyst
Profile Code: AL-MDA-02
- ₹9 LPA (Median Salary)
- Lecture Duration 2hrs
- Course Duration 12 Weeks
Skills You Learn: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) | Budgeting & Forecasting | Financial Modeling | Variance Analysis | Revenue & Profitability Analysis | Advanced Excel | Power BI/Tableau | SQL & Data Analytics | KPI Reporting | Strategic Business Planning
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About This Course
An FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) Analyst in the media, advertising, and PR industry focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance management across campaigns and business units. This course equips learners with the skills to analyze revenue, costs, and margins, build financial models, and track performance against budgets and forecasts. Participants gain hands-on experience with tools like Excel, along with exposure to SQL and BI dashboards for financial analysis and reporting. The program emphasizes financial planning, variance analysis, and decision support in dynamic, client-driven environments. Learners will understand how to evaluate financial performance, optimize resource allocation, and support strategic decision-making. By the end of the course, they are prepared for roles in FP&A and financial analytics, with career progression into finance leadership, business strategy, and senior management positions.
Course Content
4 modules · 12 weeks · 2hrs/daySQL Course
The **SQL Course** covers basic to advanced concepts for FP&A Analysts in the Media, Advertising, and PR industry, including database fundamentals, SELECT queries, filtering, sorting, joins, aggregate functions, GROUP BY, HAVING, subqueries, Common Table Expressions (CTEs), window functions, CASE statements, views, stored procedures, indexing, query optimization, transaction management, financial data extraction, campaign revenue analysis, budget reporting, profitability analysis, cost tracking, data validation, forecasting support, and large dataset management to retrieve, transform, and analyze financial and operational data for strategic planning and business decision-making.
BI Course
The **BI Course** covers basic to advanced business intelligence concepts for FP&A Analysts in the Media, Advertising, and PR industry, including data integration, data transformation, data modeling, KPI development, dashboard creation, interactive visualizations, financial performance dashboards, budget analysis, campaign profitability reporting, revenue trend analysis, predictive analytics, DAX fundamentals, drill-through reports, automated reporting, executive dashboards, forecasting visualization, variance analysis, performance monitoring, data storytelling, and business intelligence techniques to transform financial and operational data into actionable insights for strategic planning and business growth.
Analytics Platforms Course
The **Analytics Platforms Course** covers basic to advanced concepts for FP&A Analysts in the Media, Advertising, and PR industry, including analytics platform fundamentals, marketing performance measurement, campaign tracking, revenue attribution, customer segmentation, conversion analysis, audience insights, budget allocation analysis, ROI measurement, forecasting, multi-channel performance reporting, KPI monitoring, dashboard creation, workflow automation, data integration, predictive analytics, visualization, report generation, cross-platform analytics, and performance optimization to evaluate financial outcomes, improve campaign efficiency, maximize return on investment, and support data-driven strategic decision-making.
Excel Course
The **Excel Course** covers basic to advanced concepts for FP&A Analysts in the Media, Advertising, and PR industry, including workbook management, formulas, functions, data validation, sorting, filtering, conditional formatting, Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, XLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, Power Query, Power Pivot, budgeting, financial modeling, variance analysis, revenue forecasting, expense tracking, statistical functions, What-If Analysis, Solver, dashboards, VBA automation, KPI reporting, profitability analysis, MIS reporting, and interactive dashboards to support financial planning, performance evaluation, budgeting accuracy, and strategic business decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare budgets and financial forecasts
- Analyze revenue, expenses, and profitability trends
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses
- Monitor campaign and client financial performance
- Conduct variance analysis and identify business drivers
- Create management dashboards and reports
- Support strategic planning and decision-making
- Track KPIs and financial metrics
- Collaborate with business, sales, and operations teams
- Recommend actions to improve financial performance and operational efficiency
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Perfect For
Commerce and Finance Graduates | MBA Finance Students | Aspiring FP&A and Corporate Finance Professionals | Analysts Interested in Media, Advertising, and PR Businesses | Professionals Seeking Careers in Strategic Finance and Business Planning
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