Finance Business Partner

Job Id: 5817- City: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India- Department: SWAL - Business Finance- Function: Finance- Employee Type: Permanent Full Time- Seniority Level: AssociateDescription:
**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Reviewed on: 01-09-22**

**BUSINESS UNIT
INDIA REGION - CROP PROTECTION

**SUB-BUSINESS UNIT**

SWAL

**DEPARTMENT**

Finance

**JOB TITLE**

Finance Business Partner

**GJL**

5

**POSITION REPORTING TO**

Direct - Regional Finance Head India

Matrix - SWAL Business Head

**REPORTEES**

Direct Reportees: 1

**Base Location**

Mumbai

**OBJECTIVE**:
Responsible for Finance Business partnering with Business Leadership team to facilitate business growth, provide strategic guidance and analytic/decision making support for evaluating and prioritizing business decisions and make the business more sustainable and profitable and ensure that the business has the necessary and appropriate financial direction, operational controls and reporting procedures to effectively and rapidly grow the business, while securing its financial strength and operating efficiency.

**MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Business Deliverables**:

- Closely partnering with sales and marketing leadership and regional teams to achieve business KPIs including primary P/L responsibility for the business
- Regular monitoring of sales performance against targets and growth over last year
- Periodic Pricing and Margin governance at business and product level with a deep dive analysis on NRV and COGS changes and product mix analysis
- Actively partnering on product and collection scheme finalization and estimating outflows
- Monitoring business overheads and closely working with the stakeholders on improving spends efficacy
- Working Capital Management with a strong control on channel credit management and overdues

**Budgeting & MIS**:

- Closing Annual Budget for the business as per Corporate guidelines through effective collaboration with cross functional teams
- Analytical review and actionable insights on monthly business performance in comparison with budget and last year with a focus on Geography wise performance, Portfolio wise performance, Margin Management, Overhead Optimization and improvement in Working Capital
- Closely working with the business teams for closing business forecast/estimates and update the leadership team on periodic basis to enable corrective action, if any

**Special Projects, Simplification and Automation & Process Improvement**:

- Leading the simplification and automation initiatives including opportunities in the areas of Customer engagement, spends effectiveness, process/hygiene excellence and leveraging IT
- Responsible for ensuring commercial controls across the value chain viz sales, procurement, logistics & marketing leading to better internal control environment
- Frame and drive implementation of commercial policies
- Preparation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) defining the business process, control measures, accounting procedures & entries including assignment of responsibility.

**Accounts and Commercials**:

- Closing SWAL books as per the corporate timelines
- P/L and B/S scrutiny on monthly / quarterly basis and take appropriate actions, wherever required
- Completion of Internal & Statutory Audit as per the corporate timelines.
- Stewardship of the assets and resources of the organization.

**KNOWLEDGE**

**SKILLS**

**ATTITUDE/ MOTIVES/ BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS**

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**

Agri Industry Knowledge,

SAP FICO, SD, MM, commercial acumen
- Strong communicator, highly energetic to set the example for the team
- Developing the process-oriented approach and improving the visibility of service
- Ability to leverage interpersonal skills to establish rapport and develop relationships with all key stakeholders
- Well organized, able to set priorities well. Able to effectively multi task and juggle with multiple activities simultaneously

Proactive

Agile

Self-starter

Collaborative

Result oriented

**EDUCATION**:
CA

**Essential Qualifications
(Must possess):
**RELEVANT EXPERIENCE**

7-10 Yrs

**NATURE OF CONTACT**

INTERNAL CUSTOMERS*

EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS**

**ANY OTHER SPECIFIC
Exchanging information

Yes

Yes

**REQUIREMENT**:
Answering queries

Yes

Yes

10-15% travelling

Dealing with complaints

Yes

Yes

Persuading or influencing for action

Yes

Yes

Negotiating

Yes

Yes
- **Internal customers**: Corporate Finance, GBS, Sales & Marketing Team, SAP

***External customers**: Customers, CFA, Insurance Company, Third Party Agency, etc