Job Description
Deputy General Manager - Finance - Rail & Inland Terminals
Department - Finance
Location - Gurugram
CA qualified with relevant work exp is a mandate.
Responsibilities Description
Formulate and Drive Must Win Battles - Understand Leadership Priorities by meeting business heads and align on strategic goals (growth, cost, efficiency).
- Identify high-impact areas such as volume and cost drivers.
- Estimate financial impact (savings/incremental revenue).
- Defining owners, timelines, KPIs, milestones.
- Weekly tracking and monthly reviews.
- Create a dashboard for leadership updates.
Identify and drive cost saving initiatives - Drill into top expense line items (transportation, terminal expenses, fuel, handling, lease, repairs).
- Compare terminals, vendors, business units.
- Track variance vs budget, vs prior period, vs productivity norms.
- Identifying initiatives to improve by
Vendor renegotiation
Process improvements
Utilization improvements
- Defining owners, timelines, KPIs, milestones.
- Weekly tracking and monthly reviews.
- Create a dashboard for leadership updates.
Reports
Customer wise Margin Report
Rake Days Lost
Container Detention Report
Circuitwise Profitability Report
Asset Utilization Report
Rake
Container
Trailer
RST Asset Utilization Report
- Collect data regarding:
- Gross Asset available during the period
- Unavailability due to driver/breakdown
- Idle time
- Trips completed
- Compute key metrics:
- Utilization %
- Turnaround time
- Productivity per asset
- Identify underutilized assets
- Listing the reasons (maintenance, detention, low demand)
- Sharing actionable insights and driving the utilization
- Publish weekly & monthly report
Standardisation of cost across terminals - Map all cost heads across terminals.
- Identify variations.
- Work with BU Heads/ Ops to establish standard cost range wherever possible.
- Identifying initiatives and driving them to bring the cost within standard range.
- Sharing dashboard highlighting the impact of cost above standards.
Avoiding ECL and driving ECL recovery - Analyse the probable 3-month ECL report shared by RO
- Define collection targets
- Customer-wise expected recovery.
- Monitor movements to 90+/180+ days.
- Daily Recovery monitoring
- Exception reporting every week.
- Reduce new ECL creation
- Stop service for highly overdue customers
Monitor and Track returns from all capex investments including insights to be acted upon.
Annual Operating Plan
Rolling Forecast
Month Review Decks
Board Meetings
Internal Audit
Revenue Leakage
Educational Qualification - Chartered Accountant with relevant industry and pricing experience
