Finance & Commercial Role

1. Scope of the role:

- Responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, budgetary controls, forecasting, variance analysis, and MIS/Analytics to aid/enable decision-making by the leadership team. Preparation of Business modeling scenarios for new business projects. Evaluation of scenarios basis the Capital budgeting tool like NPV/IRR, payback period, etc.

- Preparation of Monthly/ Quarterly/Half-Yearly and Yearly financial MIS to be presented to the Management.In-depth understanding of the business profitability/ GC realization. Being part of the Finance team, also handle the operational activities efficiently and on time.

- Coordinate with cross-functional departments to ensure the completion of tasks on time. Execution of Tasks independently as per the laid down process. Automation of Current manual process/Activities, to save time and enhance efficiency & accuracy.

2. Job Profile:

- Support the annual/long-term planning process for the division, and engage with business teams in preparing and consolidating budgets and Business Modelling Scenarios for New Business Projects.

- Facilitate budgetary controls by way of category/brand/channel-wise review of actual against budget, analyzing causes for variance, and recommending actions to ensure that the margins are protected/improved. In-depth understanding and reporting of GC margins of the business.

- Identify and raise the red flag which impacts the GC of the business.

- Stores profitability analysis across channels to help improve the overall channel profitability

- Develop, maintain, and improve a robust MIS that helps business teams understand the key drivers of margins and profitability.

- Analyzing and reporting financial performance to enable the businesses individually and the division collectively to reach profitability goals.

- Vetting financial projections of new investments and projects and tracking the actual performance against such projections.

- Help identify deterioration in any trend and institute an early warning system for possible corrective actions by business teams Drive automation of MIS and create dashboards.

- Preparation of Short Quarterly/Half yearly notes on the Business performance

3. Key Deliverables:

- Timely completion of budgeting exercise Monthly/quarterly MIS/Variance analysis and recommend action points Monitor costs & recommend cost reduction measures Business Modelling and Scenarios building Monthly MIS to the Management on the Business Performance.

- Category/ Brand / Channel / Store profitability Track new projects' financial performance

4. The right person:

- CA / CIMA / MBA (Finance) with 4-6+ years of experience in FP&A, top management reporting, and analytics

- Strong analytical, planning, communication, and presentation skills

- Systematic and thorough in process knowledge / approach and an eye for detail

- Knowledge of ERP/ Retail Applications (Oracle/ POSS)

- Hard work with aptitude to learn and an attitude to stretch whenever required.

- Attention to detail and accuracy.

- Is willing to learn and adapt to changing business needs.