.Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:Lead planning, budgeting and monthly rolling forecast processes.Proactively partner with the Commercial and Supply Chain areas to provide financial expertise to enable strategic planning and business decision-making across procurement, manufacturing efficiencies, conversion cost management, revenue management (deliver pricing, customer/product profitability analysis etc.
), working capital management (focusing on DSO, DPO improvement, optimal inventory), to achieve operating and financial goals.Responsible for product costing, physical verification of stocks and inventory valuation.
Review Input output reconciliations and SAP stock controls.
Coordinating wall to wall physical stock count.Provide insights to drive raw material & conversion cost optimization (cost control, cost avoidance), support driving pricing initiatives with cost insights and factory variance analysis (include driving actions for mitigation).Responsible for maintaining Product Costs in SAP, Inventory valuation and capitalization of variances.Complete annual external Cost Audit as per Local statutory requirement (if any) together with Costing lead.Close monitoring of macro-economic factors in a highly volatile high inflation market environment.Partnering with country MD and leadership team in driving profitable sales growth and delivering targeted EBIT and FCF.Preparing and on time submission of financial bridges (supp pack).Lead role in preparation and delivery of Business Unit's plan targets.Working closely with Divisional FP&A team for budgetary controls.Partnering with country MD and Divisional FP&A in preparation of Mid Term Plans.Partnering with procurement and manufacturing teams in delivering targeted sourcing and manufacturing productivity targets.Preparing necessary IAAFs for capex projects in the BU and tracking all capex projects in the BU to ensure projects are delivered on time and within the budget.Principal Accountabilities and Key ActivitiesReview, evaluate and conduct in-depth performance and root-cause analysis on actuals (including trends, variances vs plan and previous year etc.)
to provide insights and engage with key stakeholders and help identify gap closing actions.Produce and provide insights and analytics to the monthly sales and financial flash reports to MD and other leadership team.Review sales price, volume and mix movement with commercial team.
Support commercial for pricing analysis and pricing decisions.Analyze customer and product profitability – engage with commercial to identify opportunities for margin improvement.Monitor Conversion cost and SD&A spends vs Plan and target and work with divisional leadership to drive cost optimization actions.Respond to ad-hoc requests and queries related to FP&A.Review accuracy and completeness of the reports generated by COE/TST/CAP teams