Finance Business Partner

**The**Opportunity**:
Pune (India) Avantor Business Center (ABC) Financial Planning & Analysis team partners with Avantor leadership teams in driving the Avantor Key Strategic Business Priorities. ABC FP&A team enables Avantor leadership team in effective decision making by providing timely, accurate and actionable insights globally for all the markets, regions, businesses, and functions.

Finance Business Partner is a member of Avantor ABC Pune FP&A family and partner with global leaders both operations & finance in driving various key priorities such as IOP, Forecast, and month end performance analysis etc by dealing with various functional areas of finance such as Cost Controlling, Productivity, Capex etc. This position will also actively partner with multiple stakeholders including operations team on a day to day basis to meet the ongoing business requirements. Finance Business Partner is expected to act as process champion/Subject Matter Expert of the assigned area and proactively enable his/her business partners in effective decision making by providing necessary insights by assessing Past & Current performance of the business.

The Finance Business Partner is accountable to deliver defined Service Line Agreements (SLA) of his/her role and assist Pune FP&A leadership team in managing the lean culture of the organization and create global impact through change projects that drive automation, standardization, digitization, and analytics. This position Works on highly complex assignments with extensive latitude for independent judgment.

This position requires strong business partnering skills with in-depth finance / business acumen, data management, reporting and analysis expertise, influencing and change management skills.
The position reports to Manager/Team Lead of Financial Planning & Analysis at Avantor Business Center (ABC) Pune and will have matrix alignment with onshore business partners.
**MAJOR JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Business Partnering**
- Act as **Finance Business Partner** for Operations team for the Corp Functions like Legal, HR, IT, Marketing & Selling heads at executive level, understanding the key priorities of business/function and Providing insights with forward-looking analysis and initiate discussions/reviews with business partners to enable them in taking key business decisions.
- Analyzing trends & providing proactive **recommendations to the finance leadership** team by highlighting potential business risks & opportunities.
- Partner with Finance/Operations leadership on **ad hoc projects**/reporting as per the ongoing business requirements.
- Assessing the existing KPI’s/reports of assigned businesses/functions, **identifying the gaps** in current process, proposing necessary changes to business partners and playing an active role in implementing the proactive mechanisms in measuring & driving business results.

**Driving Key Processes**
- Act as Subject Matter Expert **(SME)** of function/business and support leadership team in driving functional costs planning, forecasting & month end closures processes at global level. Assisting Pune FP&A manager to set up FP&A framework.
- Working Closely with Finance/Operations leads and **provide insights** in all the key areas of finance including Functional cost, Opex/Capex.
- Prepare weekly/monthly Management Review decks for leadership team by highlighting the outliers, collobarating with operations/finance teams in **understanding the drivers** behind the variances, providing necessary commentaries on the business performance.
- Actively involve in **performance review discussions** with Finance/Operations leadership teams and providing necessary suggestions to the leadership team on the way forward approach.
- Assisting finance leadership in driving the key **business-specific /global initiatives**.

**Operational/Functional Excellence**
- Take a lead in establishing Global **Standardized** Reporting for various businesses/functions.
- Closely Working with leadership teams in adopting the **ABS practices** for finance.
- Collaborate with other team members, identify & implement process simplifications/ improvements. Adopt the **best/standard practices** across teams.
- Prepare necessary **process documentation** of all the deliverables and periodical review of the existing documentation and making necessary changes to ensure the latest business changes are incorporated.
- Prepare financial analysis for various **“what if” scenarios and sensitivity analysis** in analyzing the business impact.

**Mentoring**
- ** Coach and mentor new team members** to make them successful in their respective role by assisting them in new transitions, having knowledge sharing sessions etc.

**QUALIFICATIONS (Education/Training, Experience and Certifications)**
- Master’s degree in accounting or finance. CA/ICWAI/CPA/MBA Finance from **reputed universities**.
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience in finance and/or accounting related fields, Mi