Job DescriptionPosition Title: Assistant Manager – Manufacturing & SBU Finance (BFG)

NReporting To: Head – Business Finance (BFG)

NQualification & Experience:

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- CA / CMA – Inter / Qualified CMA preferred.
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- 4–7 years of relevant experience in manufacturing finance, plant controlling, business finance, FP&A;, commercial finance, or pharmaceutical finance.
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- Experience in Pharmaceutical / API / Formulation / Manufacturing industry preferred.
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- Solid working knowledge of SAP FI/CO, MS Excel, MIS and financial modelling.
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nPurpose of the Role:

NTo provide comprehensive financial support and business partnering to manufacturing operations, R&D; and SBUs, with responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, cost control, profitability analysis, inventory and working capital management, pricing/margin analysis, and management reporting.

NThe role will partner with manufacturing, commercial, sales, marketing, R&D; and business leadership teams to drive cost efficiency, profitability improvement and informed financial decision-making.

NKey Responsibilities:

N1. Budgeting & Forecasting:

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- Lead annual budgeting and periodic forecasting for manufacturing plants, R&D; and assigned SBUs.
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- Develop cost, revenue and profitability projections.
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- Monitor key financial assumptions and business drivers.
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- Coordinate with plant and business leadership to ensure realistic and actionable budgets.
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- Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
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n2. Manufacturing Cost Control:

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- Analyze Budget vs. Actual performance across manufacturing operations.
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- Review production cost trends and identify cost optimization opportunities.
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- Analyze manufacturing overheads, including:
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- Repairs & Maintenance
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- Consumables
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- Manpower Costs
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- Utilities
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- Other Plant Expenses
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- Prepare and review detailed utility and manufacturing cost MIS.
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- Drive accountability for cost control across functions.
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n3. Capacity Utilization & Idle Cost Analysis:

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- Monitor plant capacity utilization and operational efficiency.
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- Calculate and report idle capacity costs and under-absorption of overheads.
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- Identify operational inefficiencies impacting product cost and profitability.
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- Provide financial insights for capacity and resource optimization.
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n4. Inventory & Working Capital Management:

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- Monitor inventorylevels, ageing, slow-moving/non-moving inventory and inventory turns.
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- Review inventory valuation and provisioning requirements.
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- Support initiatives forinventory optimization and working capital improvement.
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- Analyze inventory-related financial impact on business profitability.
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n5. SBU & Business Performance Analysis:

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- Analyze business performance by product, customer, geography, country and SBU.
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- Monitor revenue, volume, gross margin, contribution margin and profitability trends.
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- Prepare actionable financial insights for business leadership.
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- Support monthly business reviews and management presentations.
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n6. Pricing & Margin Management:

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- Analyze product-wise and market-wise pricing trends.
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- Monitor gross margin and contribution margin movements.
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- Support pricing decisions and profitability improvement initiatives.
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- Evaluate the financial impact of pricing, volume, product mix and cost changes.
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n7. Profitability Analysis:

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- Prepare customer-wise, country-wise, product-wise and SBU-wise profitability analysis.
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- Identify key profitability drivers and improvement opportunities.
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- Support product portfolio optimization.
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- Conduct financial evaluation of new products, customers and markets.
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n8. Selling & Marketing Cost Management:

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- Monitor selling and marketing expenditure against approved budgets.
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- Conduct Budget vs. Actual analysis.
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- Identify cost optimization opportunities while supporting business growth.
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- Provide financial insights to sales and marketing teams.
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n9. R&D; Cost Monitoring:

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- Track project-wise R&D; expenditure.
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- Monitor R&D; budgets andutilization.
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- Allocate costs to relevant projects/business segments.
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- Support project profitability and investment analysis.
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n10. Fixed Assets, Capex & SAP:

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- Ensure accurate capitalization of fixed assets in SAP.
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- Review depreciation accounting and related controls.
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- Monitor Capex against approved budgets.
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- Support post-investmentreviews and assess financial returns on major investments.
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- Ensure accuracy and integrity of relevant SAP FI/CO transactions and reports.
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n11. Management Reporting & MIS:

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- Prepare monthly Manufacturing, SBU and Business Finance MIS.
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- Develop dashboards and management reports covering:
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- Revenue & Volume
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- Manufacturing Cost
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- Gross & Contribution Margin
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- Inventory & Working Capital
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- Capacity Utilization
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- Overheads
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- Selling & Marketing Expenses
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- SBU Profitability
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- Provide variance analysis and actionable recommendations to management.
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- Support monthly/quarterly business review presentations.
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nKey Deliverables:

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- Accurate and timely manufacturing, R&D; and SBU budgets and forecasts.
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- Effective manufacturingcost and overhead control.
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- Detailed product/customer/country/SBU profitability analysis.
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- Pricing and margin improvement insights.
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- Capacity utilization and idle-cost analysis.
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- Inventory and working capital optimization.
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- Accurate management MISand variance reporting.
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- Effective financial business partnering with plant and commercial teams.
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- Improved cost efficiency and overall business profitability.
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nKey Competencies:

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- Strong Manufacturing & Business Finance expertise.
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- Budgeting, forecasting and FP&A; capabilities.
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- Strong understanding ofplant costing and cost accounting.
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- Commercial finance and profitability analysis.
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- Pricing and margin management.
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- Inventory and working capital management.
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- Strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
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- SAP FI/CO and advanced MS Excel proficiency.
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- Excellent MIS and management presentation skills.
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- Strong stakeholder management and business partnering abilities.
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- Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
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- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
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