Role : Manager - Business Finance
Location : Bengaluru
About the role
Role requires business partnering with multiple stakeholders to make and drive financial goals of the organization. The area of responsibility would cover Inventory Management, Working Capital, Balance Sheet & Central Overhead.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Develop clear understanding of key business drivers, analyses key financial metrics, provide value add analysis, support to finance management.
- Partner with finance / business management teams, identify and track appropriate performance measures, key performance indicators and associated drivers.
- Be the first point of contact for vendors and business in all financial queries, analysis and data
- Implement business decisions with appropriate analysis and comments.
- Drive standardization & automation projects for process efficiency.
- Proactive in reviewing financial information, identifying exception / inconsistencies, initiate action and follow-up for logical closure.
- Participate in forecast calls and highlight risk /opportunities with appropriate analysis.
- Ownership of expenses forecast for the business group by using trend analysis / KPI review for better P&L management
- Collaborate with upstream and downstream process team for deviations from forecast
- Participate in monthly close calls with the controller’s organization for P&L Review.
- Prepare financial information & analysis for business reviews / presentations with key highlights.
- Handle complex ad hoc requests with a short turnaround time and supplement such request with appropriate analysis and comments to support decision making.
- Support finance and business leader in simulation of projections and corresponding expenses including working out margin protection and improvement plans.
- Develop Budget modeling by establishing run rates.
- Participate in budget discussion and support scenario building / simulation modeling.
- Preparation of budget pack with appropriate budget comments to support budget reviews including submission for corporate consolidation.
- Tracking of performance against set targets and provide periodical updates to business.
Qualifications & Experience
- A Chartered Account with between 1 to 2 years of Relevant Experience.
- Prior experience in Relevant Industry / Business Facing Roles will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrate strong Communication / Presentation Skills
- Ability to work with peers and counterparts / multi location setup / good team manager.
- Proficient in Office Tools MS Excel, Power Point Skills
- Basic understanding of SQL
- Proactive approach and be a self-starter
