Finance Business Partner - SWAL

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Business Deliverables:

• Closely partnering with sales and marketing leadership and regional teams to achieve business KPIs including primary P/L responsibility for the business
• Regular monitoring of sales performance against targets and growth over last year
• Periodic Pricing and Margin governance at business and product level with a deep dive analysis on NRV and COGS changes and product mix analysis
• Actively partnering on product and collection scheme finalization and estimating outflows
• Monitoring business overheads and closely working with the stakeholders on improving spends efficacy
• Working Capital Management with a strong control on channel credit management and overdue

Budgeting & MIS:

• Closing Annual Budget for the business as per corporate guidelines through effective collaboration with cross functional teams
• Analytical review and actionable insights on monthly business performance in comparison with budget and last year with a focus on Geography wise performance, Portfolio wise performance, Margin Management, Overhead Optimization and improvement in Working Capital
• Closely working with the business teams for closing business forecast/estimates and update the leadership team on periodic basis to enable corrective action, if any

Special Projects, Simplification and Automation & Process Improvement:

• Leading the simplification and automation initiatives including opportunities in the areas of Customer engagement, spends effectiveness, process/hygiene excellence and leveraging IT
• Responsible for ensuring commercial controls across the value chain viz sales, procurement, logistics & marketing leading to better internal control environment
• Frame and drive implementation of commercial policies
• Preparation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) defining the business process, control measures, accounting procedures & entries including assignment of responsibility.

Accounts and Commercials:

• Closing UPL business books as per the corporate timelines
• P/L and B/S scrutiny on monthly / quarterly basis and take appropriate actions, wherever required
• Completion of Internal & Statutory Audit as per the corporate timelines.
• Stewardship of the assets and resources of the organization.

KNOWLEDGE

SKILLS

ATTITUDE/ MOTIVES/ BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Agri Industry Knowledge,

SAP FICO, SD, MM, commercial acumen

• Strong communicator, highly energetic to set the example for the team

• Developing the process-oriented approach and improving the visibility of service

• Ability to leverage interpersonal skills to establish rapport and develop relationships with all key stakeholders

• Well organized, able to set priorities well. Able to effectively multi task and juggle with multiple activities simultaneously