Senior Manager - Plant Finance - CA

Description:

Role & responsibilities

1. Business Partnering & Strategic Support:

- Act as the primary finance partner to Plant Heads and Operational Leadership across mills

- Provide insightful analysis on production efficiency, yield, conversion costs, labour productivity, and overhead utilisation.

- Support operational decision-making through scenario modelling, cost simulations and investment analysis.

- Drive disciplined performance management through monthly plant reviews, KPIs, variance analysis and actionable insights.

- Influence cross-functional stakeholders with strong financial reasoning and commercially grounded recommendations.

2. Financial Control & Governance:

- Lead and manage the full spectrum of Mill Finance: inventory, material variances, overhead absorption, scrap analysis, and working capital optimisation.

- Ensure transactional accounting accuracy and timeliness pertaining to mills including journal entry posting, liasing with relevant stakeholders including DXC.

- Lead P2P vertical for MCPL ensuring good controls in this area as well as good stakeholder Management with Procurement, Supply Chain.

- Handle legacy VAT cases and ensure support in areas of GST and local HR and legal cases.

- Ensure compliance with Group policies, statutory requirements, and internal control frameworks.

- Partner with Internal Audit and External Auditors to ensure timely closure of observations and audit readiness.

- Oversee Capex governance, business cases, post-implementation reviews and asset capitalisation.

3. Digital & Process Transformation:

- Champion the rollout of digital manufacturing finance tools including Power Apps, Power BI

dashboards, automated cost tracking, and workflow digitisation.

- Drive data integrity and real-time visibility across manufacturing using modern digital tools.

4. Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Management:

- Lead annual budget and rolling forecasts for all factories, aligning operational assumptions with commercial and supply chain inputs.

- Partner with operations to identify cost improvement opportunities in energy, labour, logistics, maintenance, and procurement.

- Support the business with margin improvement initiatives through deep cost visibility and project financials.

5. People Leadership:

- Manage and develop a team of 16 finance professionals, instilling strong financial discipline, operational understanding, and analytical capabilities.

- Build a high-performance, digitally savvy team with strong business partnering behaviours.

- Provide coaching, skill development, and succession planning.

Preferred candidate profile

- Qualified accountant CA with minimum 10 years post-qualification experience.

- At least 10 years experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably multi-site.

- Strong business partnering capability with the ability to influence at senior levels.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts.

- Strong commercial acumen and operational understanding.

- Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a matrix environment.