Manager - Business Finance

Roles and Responsibility:

A. Strategic Finance & Business Partnering

 Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Lead the vertical budgeting process, ensuring alignment with corporate long-term strategy.

 Performance Management: Conduct monthly variance analysis (Actual vs. Budget) and provide actionable insights to business heads to correct performance slippages.

 Decision Support: Prepare and evaluate business cases for new production launch, Post implementation review

B Commercial Excellence & Working Capital

 Pricing & Profitability: Manage regional pricing frameworks, trade schemes, and distributor margins to protect the bottom line.

 Order-to-Cash (O2C): Oversee the accounts receivable lifecycle; drive initiatives to reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)and manage credit risk.

C Integrated Business Planning (IBP) & S&OP

 Consensus Leadership: Lead the PRE DMR meeting data and analysis. Act as the neutral arbitrator to align Sales (Demand), Supply Chain (Capacity), and Finance (Budget) into one consensus

Identify gaps between current market trends and the AOP. Propose interventions (e.g., promotions or inventory shifts).

D  Statutory Compliance & Controls

 Internal Controls: Maintain a robust control environment to ensure compliance.

 *Audit Management: Lead statutory, internal, and tax audits with zero major observations related to commercials activities (discounts, collections etc).

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

 Net Revenue & EBITDA: Delivery of financial targets.

 Forecast Accuracy (FA): Reduction in variance between the IBP plan and actual regional sales.

 Working Capital Efficiency: Specific targets for DSO and Inventory Turnover.

 Inventory Health: Reduction in SLNM Slow-moving and Obsolete) stock.

 Compliance Score:100% compliance on internal control and on time support to Statutory Audit.

 Skills and Competencies

10+ years of post-qualification experience in Finance and Commercial roles.

 Minimum 5 years’ experience with Manufacturing industry

 Proficiency in SAP (S/4HANA), Power BI