Business Finance Role - FMCG/Retail

Business Finance :

- Responsible for delivery of comprehensive, accurate and timely management reporting

- Collaborate with the team to develop robust financial models and analyses to support business decisions, with a focus on the financial performance and preparing related reporting

- Preparation of daily, weekly and monthly P&L at PAN India level

- Performing city and store level analysis to drive profitability

- Discussion of P&L with City CEO for breakeven analysis and city level profitability

- Product category level P&L and analysis

- Reporting corporate financials for investors and handling all investor reporting

- Perform analysis and project reporting to stakeholders, including comparison of actual to forecast and development of new, relevant metrics to complement existing reporting

- Budgeting and periodic forecasting (weekly/ daily and monthly level) for proactive corrective measures; discussing and highlighting all red flags/solutions with the finance/ business leaders

- Working along with the budgeting team to create forward looking business and strategic plans

- Play a proactive role in identifying and addressing areas for improvement to the reporting processes to gain efficiencies, which is inclusive of, but not limited to assisting with local development and implementation of financial applications

- Ensuring detailed business reporting with in-depth analysis on trends

- Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights

- Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made

- Proactive cost variance analysis at an overall country/ region to the last unit level, against previous months/ budgets/ forecasts and deep diving for doing a root cause analysis of variances

- Report Automation - Migration towards automated agile environment within finance in order to enable various reports on real time basis

- Management accounting - work closely with financial leaders and responsible for presenting regular cost dashboards, trend analysis deck, monthly and quarterly performance deck, Variance analysis decks, next month cost estimations and budget, other ongoing cost optimization projects

- Drive business profitability and cost synergies

- Work on cost optimization projects and implementation thereof