About this role

Your Team Responsibilities

The Private Assets Finance team partners with business and finance leadership across the Real Assets and Private Capital Solutions segments, providing the financial rigor that underpins strategic and operating decisions. The team owns segment P&L reporting, forecasting and budgeting, investment analysis, and the reporting that gives business leaders a transparent view of performance and margins. As MSCI builds out its Mumbai-based finance capability, this team plays a central role in delivering high-quality analysis and insight to globally distributed stakeholders.

Your Key Responsibilities

- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual P&L close for Private Assets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely reporting

- Drive the forecasting and budgeting cycles, including revenue, cost, and headcount planning

- Deliver variance analysis (actuals vs. budget, forecast, and prior periods) with clear commentary on drivers

- Partner with accounting on revenue recognition, accruals, and month-end adjustments

- Evaluate investment and business cases — new products, hires, and growth initiatives — with disciplined ROI and payback analysis

- Model the financial impact of strategic decisions and scenario-plan across a range of outcomes

- Track investment spend against approved cases and report on realized returns

- Act as a key finance point of contact for segment stakeholders, providing analysis and recommendations that influence decisions

- Prepare materials for leadership and board-level reviews

- Contribute to process improvement and automation across reporting and planning routines, and mentor junior team members as the function grows

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

- 8–12 years of progressive finance experience spanning FP&A, business partnering, and investment/P&L analysis

- Chartered Accountant (CA), MBA (Finance), CFA, or equivalent qualification

- Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis

- Experience supporting a global business or segment P&L, preferably in financial services, data/analytics, or SaaS

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis for senior, non-finance audiences

- Advanced Excel; experience with enterprise planning and reporting systems (e.g., Oracle, Anaplan, or similar) preferred

- Proven ability to work across time zones and partner with globally distributed teams

About MSCI

What we offer you

- Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

- Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

- A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

- A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

- Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

- Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

- We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email [email protected] and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

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