About this Position The Analyst-SC controlling & projects India is responsible for supporting end-to-end Supply Chain Controlling activities across India, driving financial transparency, cost optimization, performance reporting, and decision support for Supply Chain and projects. The role partners closely with Supply Planning, Logistics, Regional Controlling, and Finance teams to ensure effective cost management and achievement of operational and financial targets. The candidate is supposed to provide actionable insights through analytics, forecasting, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with Henkel financial and governance standards.

What you´ll do

Financial Planning & Performance Management:

- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles for Supply Chain costs.
- Analyse manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and inventory-related costs.
- Monitor actual performance against Budget, Forecast, and Strategic Plans.
- Identify risks and opportunities impacting financial performance and recommend
corrective actions.
- Drive transparency on cost developments and SC KPIs, prepare and publish regular supply Chain Controlling reports and dashboards, perform variance analysis on logistics, inventory related costs.

Cost Control & Productivity:

- Validate cost-saving initiatives and productivity projects.
- Support business cases and investment evaluations.
- Track realization of savings against committed targets.
- Drive continuous improvement and cost optimization opportunities

Business Partnering:

- Act as a finance business partner to Logistics,



Investment Projects, and Supply Chain teams.
- Challenge assumptions and provide data-driven recommendations.
- Support decision-making through scenario analysis and financial modeling.
- Collaborate with local and regional stakeholders on performance reviews and strategic initiatives.

Compliance & Governance:

- Ensure adherence to Henkel financial policies, internal controls, and reporting Standards.
- Support internal and external audits.
- Maintain high standards of data quality and reporting accuracy.

Digital & Process Excellence:

- Drive automation and standardization of reporting processes.
- Leverage digital analytics tools to improve business insights.
- Participate in transformation and continuous improvement projects.
- Support implementation of new systems, dashboards, and reporting solutions.

Technical skills:

- Cost accounting and management accounting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Inventory controlling
- Business case evaluation
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Power BI or similar visualization tools
- Data interpretation and business analytics
- Process standardization

Soft Skills

- Strong stakeholder management
- Ability to influence without authority




- Collaborative and team-oriented mindset
- Proactive and Strong problem-solving capability
- Critical and strategic thinking
- Data-driven decision making
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills
- Effective verbal and written communication
- Ability to communicate with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

What makes you a good fit
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) Minimum 3-5 years of experience in business controlling & FP&A;
- Positive experience of cross functional stakeholders
- Some experience is compliance will be an advantage

Some perks of joining Henkel
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Best-in-class Group Medical Insurance policy covering employee, spouse and up to 2 children
- Competitive accident and term life policies for up to 3 times annual gross salary
- Progressive OPD policy of INR 30,000 for employee, spouse and up to 2 children

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.

📌 Analyst SC Controlling & Projects IN (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 Henkel
📍 Navi Mumbai