JOB SUMMARY
This role plays a critical part in enabling cost transparency, forecasting accuracy, and financial discipline across COGS and Manufacturing Overheads. It involves close collaboration with business teams including category managers, plant teams, and FP&A leadership to support key deliverables around cost planning, reporting, analysis, and building digital capability.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Cost Governance & Operational Reviews
- Lead cost governance routines across Finance and Operations teams.
- Drive structured cost performance reviews with Operations leadership, ensuring accountability and transparency.
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Collaborate with plant finance teams to develop annual overhead budgets and quarterly forecasts.
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment of assumptions across manufacturing sites.
Financial Performance Monitoring
- Monitor monthly budget vs. actual performance for manufacturing overheads.
- Identify variances and cost overruns early and drive timely cost containment actions.
- Prepare and analyze monthly manufacturing overhead reports by unit and cost category.
- Provide insights on key cost drivers, trends, and deviations from approved budgets.
Risk & Opportunity Management
- Conduct cadence based overhead reviews with clear insights and early flagging of risks and opportunities (R&O).
- Communicate cost risks and opportunities across the value chain in a structured manner.
Cost Efficiency & Savings Initiatives
- Drive cost saving initiatives across plants; track progress and validate delivered benefits.
- Partner with operations team to identify new efficiency opportunities and enable execution.
Business Partnering & Management Reporting
- Partner with cross functional teams to support business decisions with data driven insights.
- Evaluate and track bottler manufacturing cost trends across units, identify variances, and report business implications
- Lead preparation and delivery of management and business review presentations.
INTERACTIONS
INTERNALLY:
Operations Leadership Team, Factory finance teams and Other verticals of finance
EXTERNALLY:
Statutory Audit team
KEY PERFORMANCE INDEX
- Quality and accuracy in reports
- Adherence to budget and deviation reporting
- Driving insights and Review governance
PROFILE DETAILS
QUALIFICATION:
- Chartered Accountant with an experience of 1-2 years Or
- MBA finance from a premier institute
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
Essential/Must-have:
- Expert level understanding of Indian accounting standards (Ind As) and tax rules
- Handled reporting & analysis, financial accounting & consolidation
- Business acumen & partnering
- Understanding of Processes & Information Systems
- Making effective (T A I) presentations (T- time bound , A-accuracy and I- impactful)
- Good command on MS-Office (Excel, Word and PPT) functions
Desirable/Good to have:
- Prior Experience in Alcobev Industry, Analytics background
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- Essential/Must-have: Collaboration, Bold & Agile
- Desirable/Good to have: Value Differences, Demonstrate Self-awareness, Drive results
