Usha International - Head - Financial Planning & Analysis - CA

Financial Planning & Analysis Head : (CA Must)

a. Preparation of Budgets for the respective assigned businesses:

- Complete ownership of Budget Planning, communicating, cost productivity, validating and reviewing on a continuous basis.

- Complete ownership of validating the short term cost proposals and calculation of Break-evens, profitability, etc.

b. Profitability & Productivity for the respective assigned businesses:

- Ownership of driving profitability through strong and timely MIS reporting

- Participate in monthly BU meetings to provide inputs and share findings for performance improvement. Closely monitoring the ongoing performance against desired results and KPIs, informing the Management on an ongoing basis and drive corrective actions and prompt decisions collaborating with business partners and Senior Management.

- Aggressively pursue implementation of decisions through a rigorous tracking, review and escalation process.

- For any deviation on Results, initiating a root cause and informing the management on findings and suggesting initiatives for course corrections.

- Analysing the productivity trends within the organization and discussing with support functions on initiatives to be implemented eg. People cost, Admin Opex, Warehousing Costs, IT Opex, etc.

c. Benchmarking & Financial Analysis for the assigned businesses:

- Benchmarking & Financial Analysis for the assigned businesses.

- Preparation of budgets based on the above and inputs from various stake holders involved - CFO, CEO, Marketing Heads, Business Heads, Finance and taking relevant sanctions for the rollout of the same.

- Monitoring and controlling the budgetary spends based on the agreed figures.

- Post monitoring, provide analysis on various mid-term / course correction in the budgets and facilitate the cost effectiveness of these spends by way of qualitative analytics and deploying efficiency initiatives.

d. Validation of New Products Business cases and regular Marketing and other Spends for the respective assigned businesses.

e. Pricing, Schemes & Incentives for the respective assigned businesses.