Deputy Manager - Commercial

Scope of the role

Responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, budgetary controls, forecasting, variance analysis, and MIS/Analytics to aid/enable decision-making by the leadership team for the fragrances business.

Job Profile

• Support the annual/long term planning process for the division, engage with business teams in preparing and consolidating budgets
• Facilitate budgetary controls by way of category/brand /channel wise review of actual against budget, analyzing causes for variance and recommend actions to ensure that the margins are protected/improved.
• Kiosk profitability analysis across channels to help improve the overall channel profitability
• Develop, maintain and improve a robust MIS that helps business teams understand the key drivers of margins and profitability.
• Analyzing and reporting financial performance to enable the businesses individually and the division collectively to reach profitability goals.
• Vetting financial projections of new investments and projects and tracking the actual performance against such projection.
• Help identify deterioration in any trend and institute an early warning system for possible corrective actions by business teams
• Drive automation of MIS and create dashboards.

Key Deliverables

• Timely completion of budgeting exercise

• Monthly/quarterly MIS/Variance analysis and recommend action points
• Monitor costs & recommend cost reduction measures
• Category/ Brand / Channel / Kiosk profitability
• Track new projects financial performance

The right person

• CIMA / CA / MBA (Finance) with 2 to 3 years of experience in FP&A, top management reporting and analytics
• Strong analytical, planning, communication, and presentation skills
• Systematic and thorough in process knowledge / approach and an eye for detail
• Hard working with aptitude to learn and attitude to stretch whenever required.
• Is willing to learn and adapt to changing business needs