Associate Director - Finance - Instrumentation & Process Technology Firm - CA

Industry - Industrial Products / Heavy Machinery

Category - Finance

Skills - CFO, Associate Finance Director, CA

Job Type - Permanent

Job Description - An opportunity to be a successor to the CFO of a 6 billion dollar listed US based group with twenty companies under its umbrella.

Client Details

Our client is a well known US based MNC into instrumentation and process technology. They are a market leader currently in the space that they operate in and are in an acquisition mode

Description

- Driving annual and multi-year budgeting and strategic plans

- Developing key financial analysis to aid in business decisions, budgeting and forecasting, and cost structure analysis

- Overseeing key strategic processes including those related to Strategic Planning, Budgeting, and Annual rolling forecast processes, as well as any other key control procedures

- Partnering with the local leadership team to develop strategic multi-year plans and implementing processes to prioritize resource decisions and track the top investments and initiatives necessary to exceed future state targets

- Jointly owning the Sales Revenue and Margin performance metrics for the different business units.

- Working with the commercial team on tender analysis, growth, and margin enhancement activities.

- Working with the Service Operations team to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness to meet customer expectations and margin improvements.

- Leading monthly and quarterly close and forecast activities, summarizing Business unit wise financial results and expectations

- Preparing and delivering monthly financial/analytical reports of business performance to management

- Driving, assessing, preparing, and presenting financial analysis and management reporting to business unit management, Direct Margin analysis with insights on impact due to price and mix.

- Assisting the Director Finance in tracking and driving targets and performance, Capital Appropriation Requests, Pricing and Tender Costing, Maximising Service business margins and productivity,

- Driving the working capital improvement plans year over year by closely working with business units, driving continuous improvements through Kaizen and ensuring sustainment.

- Conducting SG&A spend analysis, working closely with functional teams

- Leading the integration of new acquisitions

- Setting up the financial controls and forecast processes for these new businesses and integrating them into Fortive reporting processes.

- Help to deliver the Returns on Capital Invested by setting up meaningful metrics and key action plans to drive with appropriate countermeasures wherever necessary.

- Conducting analysis of (but not limited to) geography, Fx, Operating Companies, price performance, customer profitability, risk, and opportunity tracking and more

- Leading and/or participating in improving Finance organization processes, utilizing the Forgive Business System (FBS)