Manager - Finance - Manufacturing/Pharma

Role Summary:

- This role is a key local role, providing robust and insightful decision support to CFO, Controller FP&P; and Business Unit Directors to enable the delivery of financial objectives at both operational and strategic level.

- The role will be responsible for delivering accurate and timely Reporting and Management of performance to deliver targets/objectives across the Business Units, owning the planning and forecasting process, and supporting key finance projects impacting the Country. This will involve liaising with above markets and ensuring Area performance is fully understood with mitigation/actions in place if required.

Qualifications Required:

- Min. 6 years post-CA/MBA Finance relevant experience in financial planning/business controlling.

- Strong academic background with good business acumen.

- Independently manages business stakeholders with minimum supervision.

- Ability to independently set, adapt, and communicate priorities with multiple concurrent projects.

- Sound analytical skills with profound knowledge of MS Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI) & and ERP (SAP knowledge preferable).

- Excellent communicator, able to build good working relationships with highly diverse internal stakeholders at the Country & Regional level.

- Ability to develop Strategic Partnerships.

Key Accountabilities:

Business partnering:

- Contribute to ensure strategic and operational objectives of the business are delivered.

- Supporting and providing clarity through financial/business analysis/benchmarks to the Leadership team to facilitate the decision-making process.

- Close collaboration with Business Units to understand key business drivers such as markets, competitors, and share of voice ensuring knowledge dissemination.

- Future new launches support including business cases, business models, what-if scenarios, projections, trend analysis, and resourcing.

- Report on monthly sales estimates and actual sales to the Country leadership team, providing meaningful variance analysis commentary.

- Lead and collaborate on key strategic projects and work with stakeholders on high-priority activities.

- Develop plans, forecasts, and analyses for strategic initiatives and ad hoc projects, including new business divisions/markets/products analysis, strategic decision-making in day-to-day operations, and other growth initiatives.

- Be agile and support ad hoc and key projects across areas as per business needs and priorities by the leadership team.

- Support Controller FP& A to facilitate monthly reviews with data analysis and follow through with the Business Unit leader on action items for improving business metrics.

Business Planning Processes:

- Support Controller FP&A to deliver high-quality PB (Phased Budget), RBUs (Rolling Business Updates), and MTP (Mid Term Planning).

- Ensuring Business Units are organized to submit timely and in line with requirements.

- Allocating targets (sales/investment/profit) to Business Units based on robust analysis/benchmarking.

- Ensuring high-quality business planning reviews allowing confident decision-making/review.

- Oversight of Inventory tracking.

- Collaboration with GFS and the market business team.

- Drive standardization and harmonization across the Business Units.

- Provide regular expert support to Business Units, and act as their conduit for project deliverables, and information.

- Drive the simplification and automation agenda in the country with the appropriate implementation of harmonized global processes.