GE Renewable Energy - Financial Analyst

Title - Sr. / Finance Analyst - Supply Chain

Business - LM Wind Power, GE Renewable Energy

Location - Bangalore

Job Description Summary

The role is within the India Finance team supporting a key global manufacturing plant in the company. The role will have direct responsibility to lead the forecasting, tracking, optimization, reporting and controllership of COGS, Inventory & Cash for the business.

Experience in manufacturing sector is mandatory for this role.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Partner with global finance team and plant management team to baseline COGS, Inventory & Cash metrics against the target, drive transparency and predictability

- Partner with functional leaders to prioritize and solve problems related to cost and cash within the business through the application of lean principles

- Defines, aligns and executes the most effective finance and operation processes for the manufacturing plants

- Run periodic (monthly, quarterly, budget) COGS forecasting, provide strong variance analysis and associated actions

- Drive cash management supporting Global finance teams through optimization of supplier disbursements & inventory optimization

- Partner with Finance, manufacturing, and sourcing to reduce variations from budget plan, understand variance drivers, and optimize business results

- Ensure quarter end controllership/reporting submissions, physical inventory count & support statutory & internal audits w.r.t inventory

- Partner with Sourcing organization in driving inventory initiatives such as incoterms, VMI (Vendor managed inventory) etc.

- Bring focus on inventory inward freight costs by plant and commodity, drive optimization on the inventory freight costs with best in class benchmarking and practices

Required Qualifications

- MBA - top colleges/CA - 1st attempt from an accredited university/college

- 0-3 years of work experience in Finance, experience in a manufacturing plant is a plus

- This role requires advanced experience in the Finance & Manufacturing Operations

- FMP/CAS graduates preferred

Desired Characteristics

- Strong analytical skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change, provides data driven insights

- Clear thinking/problem solving successfully led projects/process improvements within operations/finance functions involving process improvements; able to quickly grasp new ideas

- Adaptable/Flexible: being open to change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations

- Integrity: accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions and when dealing with others

- Confidence/Assertiveness: strong influencing skills across business functions, execute with a high sense of urgency, and ability to constructively challenge the status quo

- Communication skills: articulate and fact based, comfortable with executive communications

- Experience working in a matrixed environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear/concise manner

- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others and drive change while working across all levels, functions, and regions

- Strong critical thinking skills and ability to add value to operating teams