Business Finance Manager - FMCG/eCommerce

Business Finance Manager

Business Finance Manager will be the backbone of our operations in helping us ensure our accounting and compliance operations are running like a well-oiled machine. They will present the monthly and quarterly financial reports of various stakeholders and put in place monthly, yearly and long-range program plans from bottoms up.

Your typical day as part of any line of business would include:

- Preparing monthly P&Ls by program and geographies

- Reporting detailed variance and causal analytics on major cost items, identifying opportunities to drive efficiency and maximizing impact

- Providing all financial inputs

- Worked towards top line optimization (Revenue/ inventory movement and wastage/ margins etc), customer cohort analysis

- Developing new financial and operating metrics to ensure that the FP&A framework is geared to account for ever changing needs and on ground realities

- Support business with tracking their yearly and quarterly budget, by monitoring and reporting expenses on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis

- Providing Internal Management Reports - with clear insight into growth drivers, risks and opportunities

- Meeting with the managers to review key financials such as program cost, vendor management and headcount on a monthly/quarterly basis - to help provide visibility and guidance throughout the budgeting cycle

- Analyzing and preparing recommendations for operational plans

- Focusing on streamlining and improving processes - with the objective of providing more value-added analysis

- Collaborating with the Finance teams every month/quarter - to track any inter-department budget transfers

Here's what we are looking for:

- 4+ years of FP&A / business finance role in FMCG/ e-commerce

- Prior experience of working on pricing, costing, variance analysis etc.

- Good understanding of fundamental business dynamics.

- Great communication skills and stakeholder management.

- Ability to work in a dynamic environment and often with unstructure