Senior Finance Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - FMCG

Senior Finance Manager - FP&A - Global FMCG

Hiring for : One of the Global FMCG across 10 APAC markets

Experience : 10+ years

Location : Bengaluru / Mumbai

Preferred joining : Immediate to 30 days of offer

Reporting to : Finance Director

Key Responsibilities :

- Work with existing and new B2B markets to digitize the sale of Unilever products, future proofing their route to market ("eRTM").

- Manage Financial Planning and Analysis ("FP&A") across Planning (Budget, Forecasting) and Reporting.

- Finance Business Partner across all functions and from topline sales through all lines of the P&L to free cash flow generation.

- Establish and continually improve the monthly performance management process and drive automation.

- Coordinate and lead eRTM monthly performance update governance calls with markets and senior stakeholders.

- Define and refine clear objectives and KPIs to incentivize, track and improve performance.

- Support in driving growth through preparing, reviewing and/or approving business cases for new projects, innovations and proof of concepts.

- Own the financial modelling to create the economic model and track performance vs. forecast and budget.

- Co-lead the capex and opex governance process, support the budget process, review actual spend vs. budget and effectively priorities investments to maximize ROI.

- Identify opportunities for synergies across markets and drive migration towards one cohesive platform and suite of services whilst always maintaining a bias for customers.

Stakeholders :

- Global DT and eRTM team: Customer Development ("CD"), HR, Technology, Supply Chain.

- Other Global teams: Information & Analytics ("I&A"), Control (GCAD), M&A, Tax, Legal.

- At least 10 Emerging Market teams across: eCommerce, Finance and CD teams.

Key accountabilities :

- Performance Management

- Consolidate market inputs into an excel dashboard, prepare a data driven and insights led powerpoint update which will be presented in monthly governance calls with the markets.

- Identify key focus areas for the markets to improve performance and liaise with the B2B Capabilities to implement these in markets.

- Support presentations to senior stakeholders on monthly performance updates.

- Work with I&A and DT and eRTM teams to drive automation of market inputs and reporting.

- Financial modelling and Business Cases

- Own the excel model and work collaboratively with markets to build and develop the unit economics for DT and eRTM

- Build and coordinate approval of the business case and budget for each market.

- Track performance vs. action standards and KPIs to release further (budget) funding.

- Influence changes required to enable markets to scale quickly and profitably.

- Capex and Opex governance process

- Liaise with Technology to track actual capex spend vs. budget and review planned spend requirements vs. available spend, prioritizing investments based on maximizing ROI.

- Coordinate the annual budget process for Capex to ensure sufficient capex is ring fenced.

- Secure sufficient Opex budget to facilitate running proof of concepts, enabling faster trials

You Must Have :

- Experience working within a finance or strategy focused role within a top-tier FMCG, retail or eCommerce organization, strategy consultancy, investment bank or equivalent.

- Exposure to eCommerce, B2B and Emerging Markets is a plus but not necessary.

- Strong academic background with a finance qualification or equivalent MSc degree from a top-tier university/institution.

- A track record of high performance in your career to date.

- Excellent commercial and strategic awareness, able to synthesize complex problems and present findings clearly.

- Ability to provide key business insight through strong analytical skills.

- Experience in financial modelling (strategic planning, target setting, P&L sensitivity analysis etc.), and preparing C-level PowerPoint decks for senior stakeholders.

- Strong leadership and influencing skills, experience presenting to senior stakeholders, with the confidence to challenge back when necessary, regardless of position or level.

- High organizational agility to navigate a matrixed and geographically diverse company.

- Self-motivated and driven to continually learn, develop and succeed.

- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.

- Strong attention to detail and bias for action.