WPP

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Enterprise Transformation Headcount Tracking & Benefits Realization Lead - Finance & People

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Job Summary

Senior, data-driven leader responsible for operating the transformation headcount tracker and translating workforce actions into quantified benefits. Partners with PMO, HR and Finance to ensure accurate capture of workforce movements across geographies, linking headcount actions to savings, run-rate impacts, and realization of transformation benefits through rigorous governance, reporting, and data standards.

Location: Mumbai

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Own and operate the transformation headcount tracker, ensuring accurate, timely, and complete capture of workforce movements across in-scope functions, geographies, and workstreams.
•Track and reconcile exits, offshore hires, redeployments, role eliminations, vacancy management, backfills, and other workforce actions against approved transformation plans and benefit assumptions.
•Establish data standards, definitions, and controls for workforce-related measures so that reporting is consistent, auditable, and trusted across Finance, People, and program governance forums.
•Translate workforce movements into quantified benefits realization, linking headcount actions to savings, timing, run-rate impacts, and in-year delivery against the approved business case.
•Maintain the benefits register and supporting evidence for workforce-related initiatives, ensuring benefit definitions, baselines, owners, milestones, and realization criteria are clearly documented.

Key Requirements

•6+ years of progressive experience in workforce reporting, people analytics, HR operations, transformation PMO, benefits tracking, finance partnering, or a similar analytical delivery role.
•Demonstrated experience maintaining headcount/workforce trackers in complex organizations, ideally in transformation, restructuring, shared services, offshoring, or operating model change.
•Experience linking people data to financial outcomes, business cases, or benefits realization, with evidence of disciplined tracking and executive reporting.
•Proven ability to work across HR, Finance, and business stakeholders to reconcile different data sources and drive a single trusted view of workforce impacts.
•Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Experience:6+ yearsHR analyticsWorkforce reportingTransformation PMOFinance partneringData analytics

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationLeadershipAnalytical thinkingStakeholder managementData storytelling

Certifications:ACAACCACIMACPACIPDPMP

Languages:English

Company Brief

WPP

Global marketing and communications services group offering advertising, media investment management, branding, public relations, and digital services to multinational clients across industries.

Industry: Advertising Media Groups

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 1971

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