Overview

The role will lead planning, performance management, cost governance, and productivity tracking for COSO Plants. The Candidate will partner closely with Plant Leadership and cross-functional teams to drive forecast accuracy, support financial decision-making, enable AOP delivery, and ensure financial discipline across capex, operating cost lines, and productivity programs.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

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- Performance Management

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- Lead weekly and monthly performance reviews for key cost lines including Material Usage Variance (MUV), Variable Manufacturing Overheads (VMOH), and Fixed Manufacturing Overheads (FMOH).
- Identify and highlight key variances vs. plan, driving timely corrective actions with Plant Leadership.
- Support delivery of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Cost to Convert (C2C) targets through insights-driven analytics, performance rigor, and action tracking.
- Planning & Forecasting

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- Prepare accurate, timely financial forecasts for COSO Plants, clearly articulating risks, opportunities, and sensitivities.
- Lead AOP development for COSO sites,



ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with broader business goals.
- Productivity & Projects Governance

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- Track, report, and support execution of productivity initiatives, ensuring timely submission of trackers and alignment with annual savings commitments.
- Identify obstacles, facilitate issue resolution, and ensure timely implementation.
- Capital Investment Management

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- Partner with plant teams to validate capex proposals—including financials, cost/benefit analysis, IRR modelling, asset classification, budget alignment, and approvals.
- Drive capex delivery through monthly performance tracking, forecasting, and Investment Order (IO) control.
- Scrap Governance

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- Facilitate scrap committee meetings, coordinate scrap quotation sourcing, and support final decision-making in customer allocation based on revenue optimization.
- Analytics & Business Partnering

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- Provide ad-hoc

📌 Manager - Finance Business Partner (Kolkata)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Kolkata