Godrej Consumer Products - Manager - Marketing Finance/Category Finance

This role is an integral part of the Finance team which is focusing on GCPL's FUTURE READY Finance Function. The incumbent would be collaborating with the brand managers and the marketing team. The key objective for the incumbent is to ensure support to the brands in profit delivery, timely analytics, financial / commercial / internal controls which will contribute to GCPL's business growth.

Role specifications -

- Lead the long range and annual operating plans for the brand/category

- Partner in creating GODREJ brand playbook (GBP)

- Partner in marketing mix modelling (MMM) to track A&P spends and roll out optimization initiatives

- Drive revenue growth management (RGM) to drive price led, mix led growth in the brand / category

- Drive monthly / quarterly forecasting of brand / quarterly PL

- Analyze reasons of deviation in brands / quarterly PL from AOP, forecasts and implement actionable from the same

- Build competition benchmarking platform to roll out actionable

- Partnering in SKU wise pricing decisions

- Managing ATL spends to ensure quarterly profitability and NC targets

- Evaluation of consumer offers and trade offs

- Responsible for Capital investment analysis, NPV and payback based on volumes projections for capital increases and NPDs

- Leading evaluation of NPD profitability

- Actively partner in Replacement costing and simulation workings with brand managers

- Partnering on decisions for lowering costs, eg. Bulk buying of commodities

- Partner in decisions on geographic mix of SKUs and State wise working GCs and NCs. Also involve in prioritization of markets.

Skills required

- Strong logical and analytical skills

- Good accounting knowledge

- Strong MS-Office working knowledge. Basis SAP working.

- Excellent communication, presentation skills and ability to influence various stakeholders.

- Managing multiple stakeholders and timelines

- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities at the same time.

Education

- Chartered Accountant or MBA Finance

- 2-3 years of experience in brand/marketing finance

- FMCG experience preferred