Analyst, Supply Chain Finance

Who We Are

Brief introduction - Role Summary:

• In today’s multifaceted technology environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the Finance team at Colgate!.
• Our Finance and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape.
• The Supply Chain Finance Analyst is primarily responsible for performing the tasks related to Costing and Inventory and Fixed Assets Accounting processes.
• This includes supporting the accurate calculation and analysis of the costs associated with manufacturing or purchasing a product. Their work helps the company understand expenses, set pricing, and drive profitability.
• Perform and validate Technical CO Closing - month end activity, New Product Costing, Mass Product Costing, Annual CO Budget & Planning
• Capitalization, Retirement, master-data maintenance of Fixed Assets
• Regularly review SOX/Internal controls compliances, with accurate documentation, report any discrepancy/potential risk to ATL and Team lead during peer reviews and promptly remediate it
• Perform Lease Accounting activities in SAP and Lease governance tool
• Support and perform Year end testing and validations to ensure smooth transition
• Prepare and review various C&I and FA Reports (monthly/qtly/yearly - mgmt & stat) to ensure accuracy with analysis on variances, trend analysis to highlight any caveats and progress of plant performance
  

Responsibilities :

• Ensuring support to ATL in backup planning and execution
• Escalate and seek support from ATL/TL & other stakeholders
• Share regular updates on service delivery to ATL/TL and Business Team
• Take ownership and accountability of workflow completion (FCC/CPRS) on timely basis
• Perform root cause analysis to remediate issues (with the help of GIT if required) and incorporate in SOBPs on a regular basis.
• Review processes and reports with Business on regular intervals for any changes needed as a part of standardization and simplification initiative. Understanding business perspective and sharing best practices across subs/hubs/divisions to support continuous process improvement
• Develop analysis and insights from business data to support business leaders make informed decisions
• Bring up any process improvement ideas on process effectiveness and efficiency
• Support global projects / CPIs implementation / efficiency delivery measures
• Initiate regular and need based engagements with various stakeholders - Business Finance/TL/ATL/GIT/cross functional teams
• Prepare ,contribute & validate content and quality of decks for Business Engagement /Townhalls
• Analyzing and reporting issues to ATLs/TL on timely manner and ensuring timely root cause analysis is performed and documented
• Facilitate ongoing functional learning in team on regular basis based on feedback from business or own assessment of the needs/gaps
• Share knowledge as SME and train resources as a part of succession planning
• Develop key learning model for training programs
  

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of SOX, US GAAP, IFRS, Indian AS
• Proficient in SAP - FI/CO/PA/MM modules, Advance Excel & Google Sheets, BI Reporting platforms,
• Experience in Costing, Inventory and Fixed Assets processes (preferred)
• Comfortable with handling and analyzing large data and developing visualization in Slides or other advanced digital tools like - DOMO/Sigma
• Prior experience in working with multiple teams including business engagement across virtual platforms
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• CA or CMA (Indian) complete with relevant experience in costing
• No CMA (US) or MBA finance (Full time/distance) please
  

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Equal Opportunity Employer