Financial Analyst

Job Context: To lead the global consolidation, governance, and performance tracking of capital expenditure across Birla Carbon's operations, ensuring strategic alignment, financial discipline, and realization of investment benefits. Support annual budgeting and monthly forecasting and reporting processes. Additionally, the role acts as an internal financial controller, responsible for driving compliance with corporate finance policies, coordinating quarterly control assessments, reporting non-compliance issues, and strengthening the overall financial control environment. Birla Carbon operates across multiple geographies with a diverse manufacturing footprint, making capital investment planning and control a critical function. The Global Capex analyst plays a central role in aligning capital expenditure with strategic priorities, ensuring financial discipline, and supporting the Director of Capital Management in evaluating technical feasibility and investment decisions. The role also contributes to the broader financial planning cycle, including annual budgeting and monthly forecasting, and acts as a key internal controller to uphold financial governance across the organization. This position requires close coordination with plant finance teams, site controllers, project managers, and corporate leadership to consolidate global Capex plans, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with internal policies and external standards. The role demands a strong understanding of both financial and operational dynamics, as well as the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders. ________________________________________ Key Challenges Global Coordination & Consolidation: Managing inputs from multiple regions and business units with varying timelines, priorities, and systems to produce a unified and accurate global Capex view. Strategic Prioritization: Balancing competing investment needs while ensuring alignment with long-term business strategy and financial targets. Benefit Realization: Tracking and validating whether approved projects deliver the expected cost savings, productivity improvements, or strategic outcomes. Policy Compliance & Controls: Ensuring consistent adherence to Birla Carbon's finance policies across all sites, including timely reporting of non-compliance and follow-up on corrective actions. Quarterly Control Questionnaire Management: Coordinating with site controllers to gather, validate, and report responses, while maintaining the integrity of the internal control framework. System & Process Standardization: Driving improvements in Capex reporting tools and processes across geographies to enhance transparency, efficiency, and control. KRA 25% - Capex Strategic Planning & Investment Governance - Lead global Capex planning and consolidation across all plants and business units. - Support the Director of Capital Management in technical feasibility reviews and investment prioritization. - Review and challenge business cases to ensure strategic alignment, financial robustness, and ROI clarity. - Facilitate corporate-level discussions on Capex prioritization and resource allocation. 10% - Capex Performance Monitoring & Benefit Realization - Track Capex spend vs. plan and ensure timely, accurate reporting to senior leadership. - Monitor post-investment performance to validate delivery of anticipated benefits (cost savings, productivity, etc.) - Identify underperforming projects and recommend corrective actions or reallocation. - Drive cost optimization and capital efficiency initiatives across the portfolio. 10% - Controls, Systems & Stakeholder Engagement - Ensure compliance with capex policies and financial control requirements. - Strengthen governance and internal controls over Capex approvals, tracking, and capitalization. - Enhance Capex reporting tools and processes (SAP, SAC, etc.) for better visibility and control. - Act as a key liaison between corporate finance, plant controllers, project teams, and the Director of Capital Management. 15% - Internal Financial Controls & Policy Compliance - Act as the internal controller for ensuring adherence to Birla Carbon's finance policies across all functional areas. - Coordinate the quarterly Financial Controls Questionnaire (FCQ) process, consolidating inputs from site controllers and validating responses. - Identify and report non-compliance issues, and follow up on remediation actions with relevant stakeholders. - Ensure compliance with internal control frameworks and audit requirements. - Support internal and external audits and drive continuous improvement in financial governance. 10% - Planning & Budgeting - Support FP&A team during Annual planning and budgeting by reviewing various KPI's related to margins, fixed costs, yield, productivity, downtime, capacity utilization etc. 10% - Monthly / Quarterly / BRC reporting - Support the monthly / quarterly /. BRC reporting process as a part of FP&A team. - Ensure reports are submitted on time to management with accurate information 20% - Ad hoc projects and analysis - As may be required by stakeholders in Corp. Office / Group. Related Education & Experience Experienced CA with Good knowledge of systems like SAP, FCCS and SAC, etc CA with 4-5 years of experience