Assistant Manager

Role Purpose:

Drive financial planning, performance analytics, and decision support for business and operations. Own budgeting and forecasting, strengthen cost governance, optimize inventory and enable data-driven decision-making across functions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning (LRP)

Own weekly/monthly MIS, dashboards, variance analysis, and early warning indicators

Support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) covering volume, pricing, margins, and inventory

Drive cost analytics, productivity initiatives, and budget adherence across functions

Conduct profitability analysis (product/plant/Domain) and identify margin improvement levers

Partner with procurement on purchase finance, spend variance, supplier benchmarking, and savings validation

Track cost reduction and cost avoidance initiatives and realization

Own inventory and working capital analytics

Act as Finance Business Partner to operations, commercial, supply chain, and cross-functional teams

Support business cases, pricing decisions, capex/opex proposals, and ad-hoc analysis

Ensure data integrity, documentation, and compliance with internal controls.

What We're Looking For:

Strong ownership mindset and execution focus

High analytical capability with attention to detail

Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, lean environment and multi-tasking

Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; SAP knowledge preferred

Experience:

28 years

Qualification:

Qualified Chartered Accountant