Finance Business Partner - Retail

Finance Business Partner

Job Description :

- Preparation of Annual Budgets as per the Company's budgeting policies and timelines.

- Work closely with Regional and National Business Heads to understand market conditions, discuss and constructively challenge assumptions relating to Budgets.

- Provide insights at a detailed level in preparing high quality and accurate budgets.

- Preparation of Forecasts and Estimates on a regular basis.

- Analysis and insights for Monthly Business Review

- Perform weekly analysis of sales, margins and inventory at store and sku level and have a discussion with Business Head on risks and opportunities

- Monitoring of non-performing locations and categories and deep dive to find root causes along with corrective action plans

- Drive margin improvement and cost optimization initiatives

- Ensure accurate accounting of all transactions in accordance with Accounting policies

- Ensure 100% compliance on internal controls relating to expenses, inventories, store operations etc.

- Preparation of Adhoc analysis based on requests from Management

- Strong stake holder management with Concept office, Corp Finance and Business ops

- Tight control on capex spends in accordance with approved budgets.

Skills required :

- Solid Finance Business Partnering

- Financial Planning and Analysis

- Strong Financial accounting and reporting knowledge

- Excellent analytical skills using various Power Tools

- Exposure to working in complex industries with high volumes of data

- Exposure to ERP (Oracle, SAP), Budgeting tools ( Cognos , Hyperion etc.), Analytical Tools ( Qlikview, Tableau etc.,)

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

- Good Team player and has exposure to working in matrix organization