DGM/GM - Global Manufacturing Finance Controller - CA/CMA

Position: Global Manufacturing Finance Controller

Level: DGM/ GM

Industry: Big Fours/ Consulting companies having experience in managing pharma clients

Qualification: CMA/ CA

Nature of role: Individual Contributor

Objective - We are looking for a strong advisory profile who will work with the existing team in consolidating the Manufacturing Finance and R&D reporting. This would extend to global operations as well. Hence someone with strong pharma manufacturing experience from Big Fours would be mandatory.

Key result areas : 

- Developing process for annual financial budgets for Manufacturing and R&D across locations and its robust implementation, monitoring and tracking

- Robust capturing and accounting of all manufacturing cost by define correct cost centers, allocation methodology and tracking of same.

- Strong review of transfer pricing and implication of variations on the same, proactive analytics and cost modeling to ensure maximum return on investment

- Review of all capital expense proposal, its technical and commercial feasibility, ROCE robustness and guidance for approval of same.

- Tracking of all Capital projects, its milestones and payback cutoffs to ensure ROCE

- Identifying synergies, cost saving opportunities and ensuring its strong implementations

- Controlling global manufacturing and R&D cost and finance by ensuring strong controls over all manufacturing and R&D input cost of RM, PM, Labour, utilities, infrastructure cost through appropriate functional heads.

Functional and leadership capabilities:

- Strong hands on experience of pharma, API, Biopharma manufacturing and R&D costing, accounting and financial controlling across multiple sites with huge SKUs and complexities.

- Strong costing and financial understanding with equally strong understanding of different IT tools and systems.

- Collaborative leader with proven ability to challenge the myths and holy cows of pharma manufacturing, purchasing, project management, capital investments.