Location: Delhi / Mumbai (as per Cluster) Industry: Pharma Function: Finance & Accounts Designation: Senior Manager / AGM / Manager (depending on experience and cluster) About the Role As a Cluster Finance Business Partner, you will play a strategic role in driving financial performance and operational efficiency across multiple business divisions within your assigned cluster. You will act as a bridge between finance and business units, enabling data-driven decision-making, ensuring financial control, and facilitating long-term sustainable growth. This role demands strong business acumen, analytical abilities, stakeholder management, and a proactive mindset. Educational Qualification Chartered Accountant (CA) - Mandatory Key Responsibilities 1. Financial Performance Evaluation - Analyze key financial drivers and track financial performance across clusters. - Work with business heads to achieve budgeted top-line and bottom-line targets. - Review actuals vs. budget, perform variance analysis, and provide actionable insights. - Create monthly/quarterly dashboards and management reports to facilitate decision-making. 2. Business Partnering - Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders by offering insights that influence critical business decisions. - Ensure sustainable and profitable growth across all divisions within the cluster. Core Focus Areas: (a) Price Increase Implementation: Drive and track the impact of price increases; ensure inventory management aligns with price strategies. (b) KAM Pricing Evaluation: Provide pricing intelligence to support key account decisions. (c) P&L Ownership: Analyze zone-wise, HQ-level, and pool-level profitability. Identify areas of cost control and margin enhancement. (d) Expense Advisory: Monitor ROI of brand expenses; ensure budgetary control and compliance. (e) Brand Analysis: Review sales and expense data across major brands, identify trends and improvement areas. (f) Distribution Chain Analysis: Evaluate margins across stockists and retailers; reconcile stock and CnF statements. (g) Bonus Pay Analysis: Analyze volume growth impact, payout modeling, and sales incentive effectiveness. (h) Returns & Expiry Control: Implement measures to reduce sales returns and expiries across regions and brands. (i) Gross Contribution (GC) Improvement: Drive pricing and cost actions to enhance contribution margins. (j) New Product Launches: Partner in GTM planning, pricing strategy, and profitability modeling. (k) Credit Control Monitoring: Review and manage receivables, credit limits, and risk exposures. 3. Stakeholder Alignment - Foster collaboration between Finance, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and other support functions. - Promote adoption of best practices across business units and geographies. - Influence key stakeholders with data-backed insights to drive organizational priorities. 4. Simplification & Controls - Lead finance transformation initiatives including automation, digitization, and process standardization. - Drive continuous improvement in reporting, forecasting, and control systems. - Identify and implement internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure compliance. Key Skills & Competencies Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management Strong Commercial Acumen Pricing Strategy & P&L Management ROI and Expense Analytics Distribution & Trade Channel Finance ERP & BI Tools (SAP, Power BI, etc.) Financial Controls and Governance Leadership and Cross-functional Collaboration Problem Solving & Process Improvement

Delhi

Mumbai

Cluster Finance Business Partner - Pharma - CA 

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