Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

As a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager at the company, your role will involve managing financial forecasts and reporting for rlbe, providing business finance support to various functions, and handling budgets from an FP&A perspective. Your key responsibilities will include: - Sales forecasting at SKU/Brand/Channel/Account/Region/State level, including analysis of gross realisation, GTN, Price Increase, Elasticity, Cost Increase Assumptions, and Gross Margin Profile. - Forecasting budgets for various P&L lines/departments/expense types with proper business justification, and conducting analysis with sales and P&L profile compared to previous benchmarks. - Ensuring accuracy and hygiene of the monthly accounting process, including Std cost, TCGM, and reviewing monthly provisions before book close. - Managing balance sheet forecast and actual analysis vs forecast, aging of balance sheet items, and follow-up for pending claims/outstanding/open amounts. - Reviewing vendor advances for settlements against invoices, tracking open POs against accruals and commitments. - Managing standard cost change exercise during rlbe and standard cost roll-up at year-end for the next year. - Assisting in scenario analysis, Brand Profitability, Channel Profitability, Regional P&L, and other financial decisions for all BUs, including price, discount, incentives, and SG&A. - Driving continuous improvement in functional reporting by simplifying processes and leveraging existing systems, and preparing the monthly Business Health monitor/Dashboard. - Ensuring CFM policy and DPO policy compliances, accrual analysis, capital expenditure and depreciation planning and monitoring, tax-related matters and implications on P&L. - Monitoring Std Cost, Gross Margin performance, Freight & distribution, SG&A budget vs actual monthly for all departments/cost centers. - Working on accrual management with CFS/functional teams on Financial Closing on a monthly basis. - Understanding business key drivers and the impact on the company's business, and driving company policies effectively. - Monitoring business performance and investigating variances to provide analysis of differences with a focus on improving performance. - Supporting the audit process (Internal and Statutory) from the view of Business Finance. - Generating strong insightful management analysis reports to provide insights to all stakeholders. Qualifications Required: - Graduation in a relevant field. - Post Graduation in Finance. - Chartered Accountant (CA). This is the summary of the role and responsibilities for the FP&A Manager position at the company.,