Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Title: Finance Business Partner Manager

As a seasoned finance professional, you will play a key role in driving business growth and delivering exceptional financial performance.

Qualification:

• Hold a professional accounting certification (CA or ICWA) with 5-8 years of post-qualification experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic thinking and analytical skills to drive business insights and influence decision-making.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills to articulate complex financial concepts.
• Proactive and self-driven individual with the ability to work in a dynamic environment.
• Strong team player with excellent problem-solving and consensus-building skills.
• Exposure to complex business environments with the ability to adapt and thrive.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office and SAP.

Best Suited for Someone Who:

• Has high professionalism, integrity, and commitment.
• Can influence key stakeholders and manage their time effectively.
• Can analyze complex data, draw connections, and advocate a coherent strategy for improvement.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Support, partner, and enable AOP delivery on Volume, NSV, OP Cash, and Pricing.
• Strengthen the Finance O&R process by building and driving Pre and Post M&E mindset for Trade Spend investments.

• Collect past c-forms, ensure process improvement, and reduce timelines for recording.
• Active participation to unlock savings and ensure hygiene by dialing up Distributor ROI.
• Reduce W/Capital/Provisions unlock (Overall Norms to be lower in value than last 3 years average aged inventory).

• Trade Spend Management.
• Drive BTL claim process for the cluster and adopt new BTL Process involving NRM planning.
• Develop Pre and Post M&E Culture on BTL and TTL Spends.
• Engage with HO commercial team/cross-function team and understand various RTM formats for personal development and growth.
• Pricing optimization - Volume/Value/Margin Market Share pool/Benchmarking our Pricing with Industry players basis information available in public domain.

• Independently develop financial analysis to drive business insights and communicate these insights to key stakeholders to influence decision-making.
• Partner with CH/SH to drive business performance by providing financial/commercial expertise and insights while owning the delivery of financial targets and an effective control environment.
• Bring strong commercial insight and judgment to decision-making.
• Investment optimization, including A&P measurement and evaluation.
• Support Cluster/Region BPMs with market financials and decision-making.
• Participate in pricing discussions and provide quality inputs.

• Credit Management – Timely MIS Circulation for expected blocks, credit Block Release, Improve credit block review system and best utilization of resources, Credit Limit review.
• Collection Management - Driving Collection and reducing overdues by partnering with sales team, Improve AR ageing quality & achieve DSO Target through continuous monitoring.
• Debtor Estimates / forecast review basis actual Debtor reports to ensure no Risk in AR. Timely customer reconciliation and balance confirmations.
• 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.
• Timely month end closing and sharing required MIS, monthly Overhead tracking.

• Ensure compliance to Credit Policy, BTL Policy, TTL Policy, SOA and all commercial CARM controls.
• Risks identified through TB review are tracked and ensure review with RCFH.
• Any AML or legacy issues highlight with the legal consul and ensure get 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 that 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.