Head - FP&A (Manufacturing/Engineering Domain)

Role & responsibilities

• The Head of FP&A will play a pivotal role in driving insights for effective decision-making, working in close collaboration with the top Management.
• Developing robust financial models to support strategic initiatives.

• Financial Planning -

  Develop and oversee the 5-year financial planning process, including the annual budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals and objectives.

• Forecasting & Analysis -

  Oversee the preparation of regular financial forecasts, identifying trends and driving performance improvements, conduct comprehensive financial analysis, utilizing advanced financial models and tools, to provide insights and recommendations on business performance, profitability, and key metrics. Present findings and reports to senior management
• Monitor and analyse value stream performance, operational KPIs and capacity performance and provide pertinent recommendations. Identify opportunities for cost and price optimization, scrap reduction, productivity improvement

• Cashflow Planning -

  Familiarity with Treasury management techniques and drivers of free cash flows. Able to walk EBITDA through net inflow cashflows and critically analyse and drive changes in net debt and working capital. Should be familiar with debt restructuring techniques, Forex risks and natural hedges.

• Product Costing, CAPEX & Pricing:

  Establish costing process, Oversee Capital Evaluation Requests from a modelling perspective understanding Payback,

  ROCE and IRR

• Management Reporting, Performance Reporting & Business Intelligence

• Risk Assessment and Management

• Strategic Initiatives and process Improvements

Preferred candidate profile

• CA

  or

  CMA

  with 15 20 years in

  FP&A domain

  in a

  large manufacturing organization with turnover of 800 Cr and above.Last 4 to 5 years should be in Domain Leadership role.

• Proven experience in

  FP&A

  function in a

  multi-national group

  undertaking

  precision contract manufacturing

  .
• Proficiency in financial modelling and data analysis tools
• Should be a person with

  high level of integrity

  .
• Resilient and driven with a

  balanced level of ego

  .
• Ability to adapt to cultural or regional differences while supporting global financial strategy
• Practitioner of

  80/20 (Pareto Model) techniques.

• Experienced in LEAN concepts and ideally a proponent of LEAN Finance principles, techniques and tools
• Should have very good proficiency in Excel
• Experience in Business Intelligence / data warehouse tools
• Should have good familiarity with LEAN Daily Management techniques

  (SQDIP)

• Good knowledge of Hoshin Planning techniques X-Matrix and/or OKRs (

  Objectives and Key results)

• Experience of

  LucaNet

  or other similar global consolidation systems
• Should have

  excellent communication skills in English, Tamil. Knowledge of Hindi will be an added advantage,

• Should be willing to work out of

  Coimbatore location