About the Role:

The role holder is responsible for driving the Finance function across Business Planning & Analysis, Business Finance & Operations support, and Commercial/Supply Chain Finance for the organisation. This includes annual budgeting, forecasting and profitability analysis, business partnering with brand and leadership teams on pricing and cost efficiency projects, and managing commercial contracts, working capital and inventory related finance matters. The role holder will also be responsible for building robust reporting systems and ensuring timely, accurate financial information to support decision making across the business.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. Financial Planning & Analysis and New Projects:

- Business Planning, Analysis and Forecasting.

- Management Support for tracking both Short term goals and execution of Long term strategy.

- Process Improvement and Implementation of New Systems.

- Ad-hoc and predictive analysis.

- Business Partnering projects involving Pricing, Cost Efficiency measures and menu mix changes.

- Involvement in Business planning and Annual Budgeting process including variance analysis of Budget Vs Actual Performance on monthly basis.

- Perform Actual Profitability analysis and effective communication to Management team of the same.

- Support functional reporting requirements for IGAAP and drive improvements by ensuring timely reporting and underlying analysis.

- Forecasting Monthly Profitability & Cash Flows using the key input levers to the business.

- Design and compilation of Financial KPI/KRA charts for continuous monitoring of performance including the execution of Mid/Long term strategy.

- Prepare Long term projections which are aligned to Organisation Strategy.

- Support Leadership teams on focused projects which involve Cost benefit analysis, New Capex Projects, Cost Optimisation (Basis Internal Store benchmarking) and other Process Improvements relating to reporting & operations.

- Facilitate & Drive financial review meetings and work with business to ensure effective finance and cost management for new and existing projects/initiatives.

- Perform robust & regular benchmarking with regard to Sales KPI's and cost lines with the competitors and other franchise partners.

- Structuring of Automated reporting tools (Including BI/Robotics/AI) to facilitate preparation of time bound reports to enable quick decision making for result oriented actions.

2. Business Finance & Operations support:

- Prepare Sales Flash reports.

- Tracking of Operational Parameter including brand KPI's and BSC computation.

- Support on Cost efficiency projects and Inventory related discussion.

- Extend Support to FP&A Team in annual budgeting and Pricing process.

- Support brand heads in achieving effective communication with wider audience & for ad-hoc analysis/reporting.

- Brand related daily reporting on Sales & Customer KPI's like ROCC, GES & Ratings.

- Extend support on realisation of brand specific cost optimisation projects including Pacesetter acceleration and its realisation along with effective tracking.

- Perform Menu Mix analysis and drawing effective conclusion from those reports to do a future course correction.

- Track Key Metrics of Balanced scorecard which provide basis for Quarterly Incentives to the Team and Restaurant Managers.

- Streamline Inventory related process at a store level and work in close coordination with operations to achieve consistent levels of Wastages/Theo for stores on monthly basis.

- Extend the support to CFO & other finance leads in executing time bound reports/communication decks for investors and external parties.

- Actively work with and support Brand Heads in preparation of effective communication to the teams and in meeting other ad-hoc reporting/analysis needs.

- Work in tandem with FP&A team to participate and deliver on robust annual budgets.

3. Commercial/Supply Chain Finance:

- Close Co-ordination with other functions in vetting, analysing and achieving consistency & objectivity in commercial contracts.

- Identifying the risks and devise mitigating factors involved in a key commercial contract.

- Implement Working capital improvement and Supply chain cost efficiency projects.

- Lead and provide recommendation on New Pricing proposals.

- Enable month end and Audit related activities pertaining to Inventory control & Closure.

- Centrally Manage Info records and ensure accurate data management for Inventory related documents.

- Lead role in advising around pricing for commercial contracts. Driving efficiencies to ensure contracts remain financially viable and delivered on budget.

- Understanding the value drivers of the business and identifying profitable commercial opportunities to grow revenue and achieve cost optimisation.

- Perform pricing analysis for new proposals and quantify the resulting impact on Revenue and profitability including providing recommendations (Build underlying scenarios with associated costs and forecasted revenue for the business from a proposition).

- Assess the risks to the business of any new commercial opportunities and contracts exceeding a particular value.

- Collate and analyse business data pertaining to all critical commercial activities and contracts.

- Prepare summary of each critical commercial contract to create a repository for future reference and perform benchmarking for similar contracts.

- Actively Contribute towards Working capital optimisation and supply chain cost efficiency projects by devising right KPI's and regular tracking of those KPI's.

- Extend support to supply chain in maintaining adequate control on inventory related matters including COS calculations, Inventory reconciliations and Purchase register.

- Maintain regular touch points with management to provide timely information on key Supply chain metrics and Inflation Indices.

Education and Experience:

- CA (Rank holder preferred) with about min 10 years experience.

- Prior experience in Retail, E-commerce, or Quick Commerce.