Divisional Finance Controller - CA - Manufacturing

As a Divisional Finance Controller, you will be responsible for the following :

Management Reporting :

- Consolidation of month-end Division Financials for the purposes of Management reporting - both Local & Corporate

- Month-end reports at the country level

- Prepare the Monthly Business Review (with the India Management team) Decks

- Prepare the Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Business Review (with Corporate Headquarters) Decks

- Provide timely business analytics and comprehensive inputs to take necessary corrective actions.

- Gather, model, analyze, prepare and summarize information for company's forecast on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

- Work with business heads and finance leads to understand and identify opportunities & risks.

- Ensure effective understanding, analysis, and reporting of key metrics for the businesses

- Provide analytical support for India leadership team.

- Periodic review of critical value drivers like Bookings, Backlog, Revenue, Gross Margin, EBITA, Customer Outstanding and Working Capital to remove bottlenecks in the business.

- Analyze the Margins on a monthly basis to facilitate informed decision-making.

- Monitor SG&A costs to ensure that they are within approved budget.

Budgeting/Forecasting :

- Prepare a comprehensive budget providing the basis and assumptions for each P&L item.

- Uploading the budget into HFM and ensuring Product Line wise accuracy.

- Consolidation of Business Unit level Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Rolling Forecasts to develop Country Level Plans and Forecasts

- Provide all aspects of financial support for the annual planning process.

Business Support :

- Drives process improvements and projects as identified

- Collecting, analyzing and modelling information and evidence for decision making of management.

- Drive cost containment focus to improve overall profitability and productivity.

- Special projects as and when the opportunity arises to support business

- Ensure effective understanding, analysis, and reporting of key metrics for the businesses

- Collecting & analysing information and evidence for decision making of management

- Ability to dynamically manage pricing volatility and inventory management for price volatile SKU- s

- Lead distributor performance management with a spread of +700 distributors and +500,000 SKU- s

- Drive working capital improvement and productivity initiatives (Bad debts and Inventory Provision)

An ideal candidate is a Chartered Accountant with 10 - 12 or more years of post-qualification experience with minimum 8 years in FP&A for a large manufacturing organization and international reporting experience