Associate Manager - Finance

This role sits within the Brand and Innovation team and is primarily focused on managing and delivering brand-level reporting and analytics across multiple portfolios. The individual will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of key performance reports, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and actionable insights to support business decisions. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, strong analytical capabilities, and hands-on expertise in reporting tools and systems. It also involves driving consistency in reporting, identifying improvement opportunities, and supporting ongoing business performance tracking in a dynamic environment.

• Creating and presenting management decks along with commentaries for volume, price, mix & net revenue.
• Region, Channel & brand performance and variance analysis vs Plan, Forecast & Last Year.
• Customer performance and variance analysis review.
• Month end forecast and analysis of drivers for change.
• Variance analysis and commentaries.
• Creation of periodic forecast, actualization and forecast deck preparation with commentaries of drivers of change.
• Adhoc analysis.
• Sharing Ideas for standardization & automation.
• AOP consolidation & deck preparation.
• Creating & maintaining excel models for reporting & analysis.
• Closely working with Finance Leaders, cross functional teams to identify variances and opportunities for improvement.
• Identifying Risks & Opportunities and reporting to the leadership & FP&A Teams.
• Doing Brand, Product & SKU level.
• Experience in using & enhancing Planning & Dashboard systems & tools.

• 5-8 years of financial planning and analysis experience.
• Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance & systems such as SAP, Business Objects, Mosaic, Cockpit, PSRA, IRI.
• Tableau/Power BI knowledge.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Able to work independently and take initiative.
• Capable of managing multiple time sensitive priorities simultaneously.
• Detail-oriented organized in approach and in document maintenance.
• Ability to function well in a team environment.
• Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Proficiency in English language.