Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

PURPOSE: Responsible for financial planning, analysis and business partnering to multiple categories

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

TARGET SETTING:

• Roll up categories P&L plans in collaboration with sales, SC and marketing team
• Review and align with the stakeholders and presentations to the leadership
• Target finalization, communication and deployment across categories

BUSINESS SUPPORT:

• Business support to create a business strategy to win and achieve business goals
• Appreciation of Product Value Chain
• Prepare and Maintain Value Chains to determine product pricing and profitability
• Run a strong process governance on price and scheme proposals and effective roll out in close coordinate with the category marketing and sales team

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:

• Preparation of category level monthly results, detailed variance analysis and presentation to the leadership and lead the course corrective actions
• Competition Analysis related to Industry, Financials and Market Share Trends and tracking movements
• Collaboration with Accounting and Commercial teams to understand P&L drivers, swings and to build forecasts

BUSINESS CASE ASSESSMENT:

• Financial evaluation of investments behind new product development through creating business cases and support in alignment and approval governance

Education: CA/MBA

Experience: 6- 10 yrs overall experience in category finance partnering, FP&A or Sales Commercial