Financial Planning & Analysis Role - CA - BFS

Job Title: Finance Manager

Description:

Assist business Finance Leader/CFO with a various financial analysis in driving financial performance, forecast accuracy through proactive business partnership and business commercial support.

- Lead month/periodic closing process along adequate, prudent expenses accrual, review of actual results for COGS and & SG&A.

- Report Monthly P&L and BS along important schedules/trends

- Detailed Margin analysis on monthly basis for each item, LoB, distributor and present this to respective sales leader for review and corrective actions (if any)

- Work closely with APAC/HGR FP&A Leader/GFC team on regional reporting on Daily/weekly /monthly basis for actual business performance, bookings, backlog, product line information, destination sale and other ad-hoc reporting

- Lead AOP/Budgeting (Annual) preparation process under the guidance of business finance leader & SBU/G instruction.

- Participate in STRAP (Annual) preparation process under the guidance of business finance leader & marketing leader. -

- Work with Cross-functional Leaders/team on periodic reporting, AOP, STRAP, and other forecasting activities.

- Keep good track of the business performance, revenue/OI forecast and accordingly lead the process of preparing & submitting various estimates incl. 3+9, 5+7 & 8+4.

- Lead from finance perspective on SIOP process along SIOP manager and propose reconciliation sheet for finance & business leader approval on the periodic basis

- Keep periodic track of sales productivity by region, salesperson vs. PY and their respective targets.

- Participate & lead ongoing and new NPI projects evaluation process with ROI calculation and cost-benefit analysis

- Propose process improvement opportunities

- Lead all indirect purchases PR approval process in the best interest of overall business and keep good track of budgets utilization

- Drive/lead Standard cost run process for overall business and demonstrate excellent cross-functional engagement along regular cost update for new items/materials

- Closely work with COTA/Finance COE/GFC on monthly bookkeeping, e rec updating, reporting and suggest best practices to improve efficiency

- Participate in SAP improvement process (as & when required)

- Work with CRM/sales analyst on SFDC improvement and more relevant dashboard or reports creations for better efficiency

- Drive audit and compliance in the organization

- Develop, recommend and implement improvements to financial reporting tools and processes

Skills:

- Strong and Financial acumen and good problem solving and analytical skills a must. Along with proactive business support & partnering skills

- Comfortable with continuous changes in the work environment. Works well under pressure, with a sense of urgency, and able to meet tight deadlines.

- Demonstrated excellent teamwork qualities in a diverse and demanding environment.

- Proactively questions current practices, ability to identify root cause and corrective actions and drive improvements.

- Ability to learn quickly and improve processes.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Qualified Charted Accountant with 6 - 8 yrs of relevant experience in FP&A

- Knowledge/experience of manufacturing is preferred

- Knowledge of SAP, Essbase/HSP planning tool, HFM

- Proficient in Excel, and PowerPoint