Lead - Financial Planner - FMCG/Pharma

1. Annual Plan and Latest Estimate

- Synthesizing financial information and trends to facilitate decision making

- Finalize annual budgets to enable profitable growth and factor operational efficiencies.

- Provide all aspects of financial support for the annual planning process to Plant Finance and Operational Teams.

- Prepare Latest Estimates

2. MIS

- Finalize periodic MIS along with capturing of reasons for plan vs. actuals variances and with previous months.

- Analyse Financial performance, business growth & generate actionable insights

- Finalize periodic MIS - GMO Quality Function.

- Consolidation of Utilities information of Plants on monthly basis.

- Conduct Monthly reviews with business teams

- Quarterly Analytical Reviews

3. Monthly update to Management

- Preparation of Monthly Finance Update.

- Identifying One time/Exceptional/Non budgeted Expenses incurred during the month and highlighting to the Management appropriately.

- Preparation of Monthly Plant P&L & Delivering Insights on Plant Profitability and Variance analysis on TPT & Plant Operating Expenses.

- Consolidated view of key financial metrics & Analysis, deep drive into the numbers and provide insights to the leadership team

4. Others

- Benchmarking & Outside-in analysis

- Analytical support for various review meetings

- Drive Profit / Cost improvement plans

- Enable information automation & focus on big data analytics

- Attending Adhoc Works

Educational & Experience:

- MBA Finance / CA with around ~ 8-12 years of experience in FPA

- Sound business acumen

- Familiarity with SAP environment

- Flair for Big Data Analytics

Key Personal Attributes:

- The candidate should have a sharp business focus & analytical ability

- Should be able to work with CFTs

- Should be adaptable and flexible

- Should be self-initiator and sense of ownership for its deliverables.

Operating Network:

- Internal: Business cross functional Teams, Plant Finance, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain, IT-BPE

- External: Auditors