Finance Business Partner - CA/ICWA - eCommerce/Retail/FMCG/Mfg

Finance Business Partnering role - for an eCommerce Retail team

Experience: 4-8 years

CTC: Open for discussion

Location: Bangalore

Ideal candidates : Business Finance background + Vendor management + P2P experience

Preferred Industry: FMCG / Retail / Manufacturing / eCommerce

Summary of Responsibilities

Looking for a Finance Analyst to be a key business partner with the Retail teams. Our client is continuing to expand its successful retail business world-wide, and we are looking for a highly motivated leader who will partner the vendor management team and will be responsible for setting business controls in the vendor management process of India business.

- The successful candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, detail oriented and will possess the ability to work well with external vendors as well as internal cross-functional teams - Corporate accounts; Finance operations; vendor management teams; AR and software development teams.

Primary responsibilities:

- Design and execute the vendor management process for the India business

- Identify key control gaps area and set up weekly / monthly review process to track the health of vendor payment process

- Work closely with the vendor finance teams and own claims management and vendor disputes

- Lead controls in the area of stock delivery and vendor returns and ensure accuracy in recording of these transactions

- Highlight concerns in existing vendor contracts and drive actions to improve the terms year on year

- Forecast working capital requirement of the business and drive actions amongst cross functional team to achieve working capital targets

Basic Qualifications:

- ACA - Chartered Accountant / ICWA - Cost Accountant / MBA or an experienced finance professional with 4+ years of experience in vendor management and Purchase to pay process.

- Experience in leading cash and working capital management

- Maintain a high level of attention to detail, the ability to work independently, adjust priorities, and work in a continuously changing environment.

- Strong analytical skills

- Experience working with cross-functional teams

- Fluency in Excel and SQL

- Solid communication skills - written and verbal

Preferred Qualifications:

- Understanding of the retail business

- Maintain a high level of attention to detail, the ability to work independently, adjust priorities, and work in a continuously changing environment.

Our Client:

A fortune 500 company. An eCommerce giant in global market.