Assistant Finance Controller - Chemicals/FMCG

- Lead a team of 4 people and report to the Finance Controller, Baroda

- Lead the finance function, maintain strong compliance at the Site and partner with the business to achieve the operating KPI's.

- Expected to bring a strong business partnering mindset every day to drive efficiency and highlight opportunity in plant cost and sales commercial. Work with the supply team to manage inventory hygiene and highlight any anomaly on time to course correct & deliver to financial plan.

Accounting & reporting:

- Ensure timely and accurate preparation and review of Monthly P&L as well business reports with variance analyses. (Product cost, Customer level margin and working capital to name few)

- Book closing & finalization for Pune Plant

- Anchor initiatives of Cost Savings to achieve optimum cost of production and Budgeted profit

- Review, analyse and report monthly product costing, drive opportunity/areas of margin improvement and impact of raw material price movement on profitability.

- Ensure proper Evaluation of Capital projects, proper implementation of internal controls on utilization of Funds and timely Capitalization of Capex

- Support Business on pricing of product with insight on manufacturing cost and commodity movement.

Business Partnering:

- Drive best practices in capital discipline (working capital and capital expenditures) and set targets.

- Challenge operations team on cost improvement and ensure strong cost control within the site.

- Support the Site in generating efficiencies, initiating & providing analysis that drive performance at Site

Planning:

- Preparation of function wise Annual Budget considering all aspects and needs in terms of Capex, Sales, Variable Costs, R&M and Other Fixed Costs

- Preparation of Rolling forecast on monthly basis.

Controls & Compliance (including Tax)

- Ensure all basic internal controls are in place and anchor Sox implementation.

- Ensure Delegation of Authority Guidelines (DAG) company policies are followed.

- Timely Tax compliance for site

- Ensure clean & Timelly Audit - Statutory audit, Tax Audit and other Govt. Audits of the Brewery

Qualifications/Experience:

- Chartered Accountant (Preferable)/ MBA / Cost Accountant

- At least 6 to 11 years of experience in finance and accounting, with at least 2-3 years in a manufacturing Site

- Knowledge of MFG pro/ QAD is an advantage