Role: Manufacturing Finance Partner – Projects
Location: Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra
Reporting to:Head – Manufacturing Finance
Team name: Corporate Finance & Accounts
About the Team and the Role
The Corporate Finance & Accounts team at Ather is responsible for managing financial operations, driving cost optimization, controlling project expenditures, maintaining regulatory compliance, and delivering strategic decision support across manufacturing units.
This role is for a Manufacturing Finance Partner – Projects (moving into Plant Finance Business Partner) who will initially own the end-to-end financial agenda for the brownfield expansion at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar—including capex control, statutory approvals, and government incentives—and transition into the Plant Finance Business Partner driving plant costing, AOP, and operational decision support.
Responsibilities
- Manage project capex budgeting, financial feasibility studies, techno-commercial vendor evaluations, and project cash outflows while overseeing rigid Ind AS capitalisation and CWIP tracking.




- Own site government incentive claims, statutory liaisons with authorities (MIDC/AURIC, DIC, GST, etc.), compliance dashboards, and regulatory tax management.
- Oversee plant costing, BOM cost validations, conversion and overhead absorption, and lead the monthly manufacturing close along with cost-reduction roadmaps (VAVE, localisation).
- Act as financial partner to the Plant Head, executing plant AOP, quarterly forecasts, manufacturing finance KPI tracking, and operational make-versus-buy evaluations.
- Ensure compliance with Ind AS, internal controls, and ICFR testing while managing internal/external audits, working capital, inventory valuations, and asset verification.
- Establish plant financial architecture from scratch, including ERP cost centers, approval workflows, SOPs, and production-finance reporting automation.

Experience and Qualifications
- Chartered Accountant (CA) or MBA in Finance

📌 Senior Manager (Nagar)
🏢 the Team and the Role
📍 Nagar