Deputy Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Field enablement :

- Help business conceptualize and enable growth/ improvement oriented initiatives by business

- Agency-branch profitability and redesigning the MIS process

- Axis-Zone level analysis

- CAT

- New initiatives support

Opex:

- Drive cost management agenda of the organization

- Providing controllership over Company level opex

- Departmental expenses, reconciliation between top down and bottoms up, engagement with various functional heads and closure

- Tracking monthly opex

- Providing visibility to rolling forecasts to enable timely business action

- Company level cost initiatives- HR, Facilities, Agency etc

- Quality led cost initiatives and weekly governance

Financial Decision making:

- Develop and maintain framework of cost management and resource allocation within accepted risk parameters

- Liasoning with demand management

- Negotiate with various functions on efficacy of CBA

- CBA approval process as per revised grid

- Providing visibility to organization on accountability of delivering committed benefits of investments.

- Trainings and increasing the awareness of the process

- Sample analysis of self-approved CBAs on quarterly basis

CAPEX:

- Help business priorities capex spends and funding of the same.

- Give-gets of various CAPEX and its linkage with company strategy and sales plan/cost reduction plans

- Monthly tracking of CAPEX categorized under various projects and dash boarding in the way it is useful to major stakeholders

- Periodic reconciliation between IT PO based capex and "put to use" CAPEX

- Deep dive of leasehold capex

Key Projects :

- Understanding of the business case

- Give-gets of various initiatives

- Current issues (timing/permanent)

- Benefit tracking and validation

- Understanding of CPT methodology and validation of the same

Corporate overhead allocation Process

- Understanding and improvements

- Alignment with Activity Based Costing

- Owning expenses allocation policy and periodic review of expense allocation process runs and movement analysis

- Expense unitisation process

Incentives and contests:

- Ensuring Give-get of the incentives/ contest schemes in line with product and channel economics

- Periodic forecasting and course corrections

- Provision validations in the books