Kimberly Clark - Supply Chain Finance Manager - CA

Your Job

You're not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we're out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you'll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your Supply Chain Finance Manager role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Position Summary -

This position would be a financial partner to the Supply Chain Director. It will be responsible for Mill Finance (including controls and hygiene) and play a role in driving supply chain projects and measuring delivery.

Key Relationships

- Reports to Finance Director, India

- India Supply Chain Leadership Team

Accountabilities

Finance Partner for Mill Operations:

- Drive financial and commercial hygiene across the mill operations.

- Responsible for commercial control across mill operations.

- Detailed analysis of mill, cost, efficiencies and seek opportunities for cost effectiveness.

- Responsible for leading and executing financial and commercial activities at the mill.

- Responsible for processes relating to the accounting and updating of the mill result.

- Responsible for working closely with the central team on projects, initiatives and day to day operations.

- Work closely with the financial consulting team on processes and controls.

- Responsible for the fiscal compliances specifically excise at the mill.

- In-depth detailed, comprehensive & incisive analysis of mill cost and performance on an ongoing basis.

- Responsible for overseeing, analyzing, and driving mill and 3rd party conversion cost and budget administration.

- Evaluation of CAPEX proposals and controls over spends and projects deliverables.

- Overseeing mill month end closing.

- Championing internal controls over 3rd party operations and underlining periodic review over operating profit.

- Identify and make recommendations that optimize business processes and improve financial and other internal controls

- Partner with Supply chain team in driving Inventory (DIO), AP (DPO) improvement initiatives as per Plan

Finance Partner for Supply Chain Operations

- Driving Cost Transformation Projects - from ideation to monitoring delivery to measurement & reporting

- Budgeting for Supply Chain costs - From Mill to Depots to CHA to Primary/ Secondary Freight. Measurement of budget vs actuals

- Partnering with the procurement team to understand material price forecasts and updating the material cost forecast to the FP&A team

- Monitoring working capital and suggesting course corrections

- Partnering key supply chain projects and providing inputs for optimization

- Cost Benchmarking across KC Mills, Competition - understanding product BoM in detail

About Us

Huggies- . Kleenex- . Cottonelle- . Scott- . Kotex- . Poise- . Depend- . Kimberly-Clark Professional- . You already know our legendary brands-and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn't exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you'll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there's your open door of opportunity. It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on!

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our manager roles, you'll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Qualifications & Competencies

- CA with 8-10 years of post-qualification experience

- Experience of working in a MNC in FMCG/Consumer Durables/Manufacturing/Pharmaceuticals industry

- Experience in factory finance and logistics finance

- Experience in Capex evaluation

- Good at stakeholder management

- Have 'continuous improvement' mindset