Assistant Manager - Finance

Role & responsibilities:

1) Annual Business Planning which will include financial evaluation, assimilation of business assumptions into financial plan.

2) Product costing: Continuous evaluation of product cost in terms of factory yield, input cost efficiency, product recipe, packaging format, distribution cost to provide early warning signals for corrective actions at all levels of Value chain.

3) Product pricing: Build a flexible, responsive and agile pricing strategy with Market-wise, product-wise profitability data along with market intelligence / competition data.

4) Budgeting: Effectively use financial & accounting information and business environment dynamics to implement / administer budgets in the areas of Marketing spends Administration cost, Capex Cost, PD and R&D Cost.

5) Financial Accounting: Ensuring complete and accurate recording of transactions in the Record to Report activity.

6) Ensuring compliance with all relevant statutes like Income Tax, VAT, Excise, Custom Duty, Service Tax etc.

7) Business Analytics: preparation of monthly performance reports against the key Business Plan assumptions and milestones, performance of detailed analysis on actual operating activities, with reference to the key business drivers and critical business parameters e.g. commodity costs, production yields, conversion efficiency, dispatch efficiency, freight, product quality, balance product shelf life, market returns, market inputs, promotional measures etc.

Preferred candidate profile:

Essential

• Stock accounting and principles of inventory valuation
• Operating knowledge of commercial taxes and excise
• Knowledge of internal control systems
• Costing
• Taxation
• Accounting
• Legal Understanding

Desirable

• Knowledge of other factory related statutes