Job Summary

The business partner incharge will act as a value adder and a collaborator between the zone and other cross functional teams to gather and analyse data. He/she will be responsible for assisting the zonal Business partner manager in deriving the finaincial insights. It is the business partner's role to surpass providing services and move into an outcomes-driven field.

Key Role & Responsibilities

- Combine knowledge of the commercial environment with financial analysis to drive performance through better decision making
- The BP role is both a commercial and financial role. They have specific business, product, market and/or customer knowledge, in addition to technical financial know how
- The BP acts as a conduit to other Finance functions, drawing in specialism where needed
- Business Case Development w.r.t Process Initiatives: Perform cost benefit analysis and assist in developing business cases of the Process Initiatives (PII and PIC) to be undertaken during the year to give the manufacturing team a view of which initiatives would be vital to undertake from a financial lens
- Financial Analytics and Decision Support: Insight Generation w.r.t manufacturing excellence and cost control
- Drawing financial insights from the reports shared by the Analytics COE team. These insights could be related to production cost, financial parameters like Manufacturing Cycle Efficiency, Inventory Turnover, Revenue per employee etc., process block performance for the Zonal and Plant heads to help them manage their operations in an productive manner




- Analyze dashboards and reports to provide insights on the plant performance in terms of the efficiency in manufacturing process and the costs incurred at various stages
- Obtain cash flow forecasts and funding estimates from the treasury team for the new products that will be manufactured to deliberate with the Zonal Heads and Plant Heads on the financial viability of making the products
- Enabling data driven decision support by analyzing the historical trend of efficiencies achieved through manufacturing, any opportunities missed during manufacturing etc. This historical trend analysis would help the Zonal operations verticals in making informed manufacturing related decisions.
- Obtain the sales report from the business team to identify the customer preferences in terms of the final product they are procuring and in what quantities
- Obtain the product cost related reports to analyze the cost components that go into making the product, thereby identifying cost improvement opportunities along with the manufacturing excellence team
- Assist in analyzing the efficiency of the equipment being used, activities being consumed, material being used to manufacture products at various plants
- Business Support and Collaboration:



Assist the manufacturing excellence team in getting the data for product costing from the finance team
- Collaborate with the operational excellence team and plant heads to identify opportunities and areas where manufacturing process can be enhanced to improve productivity
- Coordinate with the business team on the RM / PM related requirements of the plants for FG manufacturing based on the BOM finalized
- Collaborate with the business team to identify the vendors from whom the RM / PM needs to be procured
- Defining the levels and dimensions for report creation: Define the levels and dimensions of the Ad-Hoc reports and dashboards to be created by the Analytics COE team to depict the plant performances in terms of production and costs incurred etc.
- Provide the Analytics COE with the necessary assistance in building the report wireframes and help them identify sources from where the data can be pulled to prepare the Ad Hoc reports
- Performance Management
- Zonal Budgeting and Forecasting Inputs: Provide the Budgeting and Forecasting team with any zonal budgeting and forecasting related inputs
- Assist in adhering to the budget calendar when submitting the plans, budgets and forecasts
- Review assumptions used for preparation of budgets, forecasts and provide updates to budget templates if any
- Discuss the revised cost projections and assumptions considered at the time of monthly performance review and forecasting
- Assisting the teams in Manufacturing pillar in making operational plans to meet any short term goals if any

📌 Finance Business Partner (Pune)
🏢 Sarthee Consultancy
📍 Pune