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**Company Description**
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because **Good Health Can’t Wait**.

We started in 1984 with a modest investment, 20 employees and a bold vision. Today, we have research and development centres, manufacturing facilities or a commercial presence in 66 countries.

For nearly four decades, we have stood for access, affordability and innovation based on the bedrock of deep science, progressive people practices and robust corporate governance. As the pharmaceutical industry evolves and undergoes disruption, we see an opportunity - to strengthen our core further (the next steps) and to build the future (the new bets).

‘The Next and the New’ is how we aim to continue to be the partner of choice - purpose-driven, future-ready and sustainable. Our aim is to reach over 1.5 Bn+ patients across the world by 2030 by growing our core businesses and building for the future with sustainability at the core of our purpose and strategy. Sustainability for us means operating in a manner that respects people, planet and purpose - helping us conserve precious resources, serve our patients, create value for stakeholders, give back to society, fulfil our potential and maintain our integrity and transparency

Dr Reddy’s maintains a work environment, free from discrimination and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to employ & nurture all qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable law(s) of the country we operate in. We treasure every talent, and recognize merit and diversity in our organization.
**Job Description** 1. Profitability reporting & Analysis**:

- Timely & accurate reporting of FTM sales, analysing pricing & product trends.
- Finalize periodic MIS & ensure accuracy of numbers. Analyse financial performance of business against latest estimates/plan.
- Prepare Latest estimates. Assess shortfalls / excess from the perspective of market forces, price erosion, market share gains, New Product performance
- Carryout variance analysis to understand movement in prices, volumes compared to plan, previous LE, QoQ & YoY
- Ensure timely preparation & reporting of a) monthly standalone P&L, b) TP revision & updation, c) Annual/periodic tax estimates in order to support the tax team in setting up the right transfer pricing & avoiding any transfer price adjustment at the end of year

2. **Annual operating Plan**
- Preparation of Annual budgets in line with corporate guidance by working alongside other CFTs.
- Analyse budget through the lens of price erosion, share gains, New product performance, impact of external market factors, supply etc., to carve out meaningful insights and to gauge Opportunities & Risks

**3**. **Business support & Adhoc projects**:

- Support top management for any specific requirements or one-time projects, in any of the business areas spanning Peer analysis, Market shares etc
- Coordinate and support business requirements as and when required
- Collaborate with Cross Functional teams like Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Portfolio, Corporate etc., on strategic plan exercise, to prepare a financial summary; Prepare projections based on scenarios, to discuss with internal teams and leadership.
- Oversee the preparation of Product Cost related MIS and ensure it is circulated with relevant stakeholders; Lead Costing related analytics, cater to queries from a costing standpoint, by front ending with Manufacturing team
- Circulate internally MIS related to Peer dynamics, key happenings in the industry among others, to facilitate timely decision making.

**4. Digitalization**:

- Collaborate with digital, Corporate and other teams to ensure dashboard stays updated for monthly / quarterly reviews with CXOs, business teams,
- Facilitate incorporating of add-on requirements that comes from stakeholders as required

**Qualifications**
Qualification : Chartered Accountant

Expected Skills : Well versed with Excel & power point, Team management.

Mandatory Skills : Analytical Skills, Communication Skills, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning
**Additional Information** About the Department**
**Finance**
The Finance function at Dr. Reddy's goes beyond the traditional roles of monitoring costs, supervising accounting and creating reports. Deep into its digitalization transformation journey, the function works with all departments in the organization as a strategic partner and plays a major role in supporting management in its decision making.

The function is distributed globally and has business partnering teams allied to different business units as Controller