Deputy Head - Financial Planning & Analysis - Manufacturing Firm

Key Functional Responsibilities:

1. Financial Planning & Analysis:

- Real-time support to JV partners for their analysis / decision making.

- Budgeting, Forecasting and MIS Reporting including variance analysis.

- Review of monthly MIS - Early view report, Flash report, Monthly performance report, Business wise / Product wise Profitability, Fixed & Variable cost, Working Capital, CAPEX, etc.

- Collaborating with different functions i.e., Business Finance, Account Receivable, Treasury & Insurance, Operations, Procurement, Strategy, Business Excellence etc. for making an insightful presentation to the Board.

- Preparing financial business case for strategic long term and short-term plans.

- Preparation & review of representation letter/notes to Board/JV partners.

- Support finance team & cross functional department with providing required inputs.

- Work on ad-hoc requests as per the management/business requirements.

2. Process & Internal Controls:

- Identification & implementation of process improvements by devising the SOP's.

- Ensuring testing of controls for various processes as per Risk Management framework and quarterly reporting to the Board. Implementation of changes to ERM framework.

- Review annual internal audit plan and scope. Also, tracking the progress and ensuring timely completion as per the plan.

- Provide periodic update of open action items for Audit Committee reporting.

- Ensuring horizontal deployment of corrective actions across the organization.

- Ensuring Segregation of Duties (SoD) is enabled in SAP.

- Handling Statutory Audit, quarterly limited review and ensured timely completion of the same with no major observations w.r.t. internal controls.

3. Others:

- In-depth knowledge of Ind AS and its practical application.

- Actively participate in Company's Nirantar drive through various initiatives in Finance domain continuous process improvement and cost reduction.

- Leveraging SAP HANA, Fiori apps, BW & FP&A tool (SAP Analytics Cloud) for reporting, productivity improvements & cost optimization.

- Enable data driven decision making through Data Analytics and giving insights to management for structural/policy changes.

Key Result Areas

- Timeliness & accuracy in reporting

- Build a control-oriented business environment

Managerial Competencies:

- Probing and questioning skills

- Good Communication skills

- Report drafting skills

- Co-ordination skills

- Proficiency in MS Office & Visio

- Knowledge of SAP

Compensation and Benefits:

As per Industry standards