Deputy Manager- Business Finance

Job Description

Drive delivery of results -

• Finalize and publish monthly MIS on a timely basis.
• Perform actual Contribution analysis for BU/ SKU and deep-dive analysis of Fixed Expenses, Sales realization and overall financial performance of the business every month, in comparison with Budget targets and YoY and review deep-dive analytical results with BU-Heads, CFO, CEO and all relevant business stakeholders for prompt decision making and actions.
• Partner with the Plant Finance Team to track product costs, monitor variances, capex, inventory control and sourcing cost implications.
• Track Cost Saving initiatives along with Plant Finance Team and factor the same in the Contribution analysis.
• Continuously monitor the business performance and KPIs against the Budget, Long Term Plan, work out differences/ shortfall
• Participate and implement in finance transformation with data analytics, digital interventions and changes in processes and policies.
• Drive initiatives undertaken by the company into the business to facilitate change management and enable roll out of key initiatives like Channel Financing, Vendor Financing, Real Time reporting, DMS, SFA, etc, and continuously monitor adoption, adherence and effectiveness of such changes/ initiatives.

Business Planning -

• Create Long Term Plans (LTP) with financial projections for 3-4 years, factoring all agreed business goals and creating the long term performance goals for the business. Participate in business planning meetings, work out financial implications to facilitate strategic decisions.
• Anchor and drive the Annual Budgeting process within the business and finalise detailed Budgets with analysis and in alignment with the long term Goals for BU including preparing for presentation to Senior Management for approval.
• Establish a rolling P&L and Working Capital Forecast quarterly & Rest of year, on a monthly basis, updated with business developments, actions taken and economic environment to continuously monitor the achievement of performance targets during the year well in advance and influence business decisions to drive results.
• Perform Commodity & Currency forecasts and trigger product cost sensitivities and impact on financial delivery. Partner with Plant Finance Team to work out cost projections for Budget and LTP.
• Provide cash forecast inputs to Treasury
• Perform impact analysis prior to product pricing decisions, schemes & incentives
• Establish process of business case evaluation for critical investments and perform New Products business case analysis. Analyse & evaluate all Business cases and recommend for decision and approval.
• Constantly assess Risks of the business, integrate with the risk management framework and embed all risks in the business plans, forecasts, Budgets and business cases.

Stakeholder responses and interactions -

• Provide required BU-specific inputs for Investor presentations and response to Investor & Group queries.
• Engage with Channel Partners and Vendor partners through in-person market visits and understanding business development from time to time and prevailing market situation.
• Partner with Finance support functional teams, Cross functional team members and cross-business partners to drive central functional objectives, corporate objectives and Group objectives.

Industry Benchmarking

• Perform benchmarking with Industry peers on Financial results in same BU segment basis quarterly results and also on market practices, pricing, costs etc. as gathered from time to time from various sources.
• Conduct regular market visits to get visibility on market developments and competitive practices.
• Capability Building -
• Develop Self and the team, both own team and extended Finance team and participate in all company-wide finance transformation initiatives to enhance the finance function capabilities.

Competencies

(Functional / Behavioral)

Essential Functional Requirement

Essential Behavioral Competence Requirements

1.     Depth of knowledge about the business, fair understanding about the industry and the addressable market and prevailing market practices.

2.     and ability to create financial models.

3.     Fair knowledge of Direct and Indirect Tax provisions.

4.     Hands-on working knowledge and adequate hands-on exposure to SAP.

5.     Flair for digitization and automation.

Educational Qualification:

B.Com, CA with MBA Finance preferred

Experience:

3-5 Yrs post qualification with 1-2 years in similar role