About Company:

The company operates in the industrial manufacturing sector, specializing in engineered metal castings for infrastructure, automotive, and heavy engineering applications.

Job Description:

Financial Planning & Budgeting:

- Lead the Annual Business Planning exercise in partnership with department heads to develop functional growth plans

Analyze trends in:

- Cash flow

- Revenue

- Expenses

Capital expenditure for budgeting and forecasting

- Ensure budgets are cascaded across departments up to unit level and aligned with overall business plans

- Contribute to financial due diligence for M&A / partnership initiatives (if any)

- Assist in financial analysis of strategic projects and capex proposals presented to management

- Collaborate with the Market Intelligence team to understand market scenarios and support business plan development through projections and trend analysis

- Drive continuous monthly and quarterly forecasting with function heads to achieve targeted quarterly performance and annual budget

Financial Analysis & Performance Management:

- Liaise with business teams to gather business performance data

- Lead preparation and analysis of business performance reports and review with relevant stakeholders

- Review Business Performance MIS dashboards and present findings to management

- Finalize templates for MIS information capture

- Review financials for all operating locations (including subsidiaries) and finalize analysis

- Provide early warning signals and support stakeholders in developing mitigation mechanisms

- Review cost accounting of inventory and WIP to ensure compliance with defined controls

- Provide inputs for business planning based on costing reviews

- Assist in book closure by reviewing accounts, identifying gaps, and ensuring corrective measures

- Finalize costing templates and:

- Review effortcost and activity complexitycost linkages with department heads

- Communicate costing rationale to concerned departments

Pricing & Transfer Pricing:

- Partner with Product & Portfolio Management to:

- Review product economics, including new products

- Monitor product pricing to ensure profitability

- Establish pricing governance mechanisms through audits and process checkpoints

- Ensure integrity of pricing governance and escalate issues where required

- Monitor and control inter-company transfer pricing for subsidiary transactions

- Conduct quarterly reviews to ensure alignment with management guidelines

Financial Risk Management & Controls:

- Ensure comprehensive coverage of financial risks across SBUs through governance mechanisms

- Assist in smooth conduct of external audits by providing timely information

- Review key variances from agreed budgets and guide measures to manage them

- Monitor adherence to new SOPs across business-impacting functions (HR, Procurement, Manufacturing, etc.)

- Process Improvement, Automation & Systems

- Periodically review FP&A processes and identify improvement opportunities

- Undertake actions to enhance service levels

- Partner with the Business Technology team to automate FP&A processes

Focus on:

- Reducing cycle time

- Improving report quality

- Drive digitization, automation, and IT enablement, including financial dashboards

Candidate Requirements:

- CA/ MBA/ Engineering+MBA with 812 years of experience in:

- FP&A

- Business Finance

- Corporate Finance roles

- Experience in manufacturing industry preferred

- Exposure to SAP, ERP, and BI tools

Key Skills & Competencies:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Financial modeling and forecasting expertise

- Strong business acumen and stakeholder engagement ability

- High proficiency in:

- Excel

- PowerPoint

- Financial planning tools (e.g., SAP, Power BI)

- Effective communication and presentation skills

- Attention to detail with a strategic mindset