Senior Financial Analyst

About our Finance team:

We drive sustainable growth for our business, customers, and brands. We're responsible for delivering exceptional performance and creating potential for future growth.

No two days are the same in our Finance team. Whether we're utilizing digital capabilities or creating capacity to invest in the future, we help you learn and develop in our inclusive culture.

Our key responsibilities include:

• Possessing a flair for numbers and thinking big-picture.
• Communicating financial concepts to stakeholders.
• Being proactive, self-driven with a dynamic environment.
• Being a team player, trouble-shooter, and consensus-builder.
• Exposure to complex business environments.
• Good analytical, written & verbal communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office and SAP.

Requirements:

• Inter CA/Qualified ICWA with 2+ years of post-qualification experience.

Best suited for someone who is:

• Highly professional, integrity, and commitment.
• Able to influence key stakeholders.
• Ability to manage their time and prioritize effectively.
• Ability to analyse complex data, draw connections, and advocate a coherent strategy for improvement.

Key areas of responsibility:

A. Performance Delivery

1. Supporting AOP delivery on Volume, NSV, OP Cash, and Pricing.

2. Strengthening the Finance O&R process. Building and driving Pre and Post M&E mindset for Trade Spend investments (BTL and TTL).

B. Productivity

1. Collecting past c-forms, ensuring process improvement, and reducing timelines for recording the same.

2. Active participation to unlock savings and ensure hygiene by dialling up Distributor ROI,

3. Reduction in W/Capital / Provisions unlock (Overall Norms to be lower in value than last 3 years average aged inventory).

C. Net Revenue Management

1. Trade Spend Management.

2. Driving BTL claim process for the cluster & adopting new BTL Process, involving NRM planning.

3. Developing Pre and Post M&E Culture on BTL and TTL Spends.

4. Engaging with HO commercial team / cross-function team and understanding of various RTM/ learning more formats for personal development & growth.

5. Pricing optimization - Volume/ Value/ Margin Market Share pool / Benchmarking our Pricing with Industry players basis information available in public domain.

D. Business Partnering

1. Independently developing financial analysis to drive business insights. The role also requires the ability to concisely communicate these insights to key stakeholders to influence decision-making in a complex and delicate business environment.

2. Partnering with CH/SH to drive business performance by providing financial/commercial expertise and insights while owning the delivery of the financial targets and an effective control environment.

3. Bringing strong commercial insight and judgment to decision making.

4. Investment optimization, including A&P measurement and evaluation.

5. Supporting Cluster/region BPMs with market financials and decision-making.

6. Participating in pricing discussion and providing quality inputs.

E. BAU Operations

1. Credit Management – Timely MIS Circulation for expected blocks, credit Block Release, Improve credit block review system and best utilization of resources, Credit Limit review.

2. Collection Management - Driving Collection and reducing overdues by partnering with sales team, Improve AR ageing quality & achieve DSO Target through continuous monitoring.

3. Debtor Estimates / forecast review basis actual Debtor reports to ensure no Risk in AR. Timely customer reconciliation and balance confirmations.

4. Support RTM Changes / Annual policy changes and ensure no sales loss due to system, support in Representation to State Govt, Excise Policy year Change Invoice checking and verification to ensure billing with approved /accurate rates.

5. Timely month-end closing and sharing required MIS, monthly Overhead tracking.

F. Compliance and Governance

1. Ensuring compliance to Credit Policy, BTL Policy, TTL Policy, SOA, and all commercial CARM controls.

2. Risks identified through TB review are tracked and ensured review with RCFH.

3. Any AML or legacy issues highlighted with the legal consul and ensured resolve.

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted, and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.