Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - Pharma

We are looking at Manager - FP&A for a leading client into Pharma based at Mumbai.

JD :

I. Opex analysis and reporting

- Engage with all manufacturing units to report on operating expenses variance across units and provide necessary inputs for top management reviews

- Reporting on Opex Variance for Manufacturing, Admin on monthly basis for India based Mfg units

- Prepare LE in consultation with Site Finance Heads to give insights about future costs to Management on quarterly basis.

- Detailed Analysis of all opex heads and work to drive cost optimization.

- Discuss and review with admin operations / FP&A teams monthly on budget adherence

II. Prepare the annual budget for the manufacturing units and review of expenses

- Drive annual budgeting exercise for operating expenses across plants for Admin function

- Partner with site finance team to prepare and consolidate annual Opex Budget for Manufacturing, Admin at Cost center (dept) & expense level in line with production plan, site operations schedule and corporate guidance.

- For better Budget Control several other activities to be undertaken like PO reviews, discussion with stake holders to establish need for expense, etc.

III. Partner in and Drive Several Strategic, Cost and other Projects at Function as well as Company level

- Drive project management for various Strategic, Cost and other Projects from Operations point of view

- Responsible for end to end activities from initiating charter, driving meetings, plan for execution within project timeline

- Partner with all cross functional operations teams as well as corporate teams to drive project charter

- Partner with all operations finance teams to ensure completeness of project charters

- Drive automation projects for Mfg Finance to improve efficiency

IV. Identify and support cost reduction initiatives across manufacturing to optimize the overall cost

- Drive cost reduction activities across the admin section by monitoring cost reduction KPIs, and through internal and external benchmarking

- Review the Cost saving ideas and support to approve the same

- Establish procedures and templates for cost savings ideas after alignment with Operations team

- Support Operational Excellence teams in various projects from time to time and help in driving closure of projects