Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

The CFO will be responsible for:

- Developing and supporting the Companys long-term growth strategy and annual operating plans.
- Establishing strong MIS, dashboards and business performance monitoring across sales,margins, inventory, production, working capital and profitability.
- Building robust budgeting, forecasting, target-setting and performance review mechanisms across functions.
- Driving detailed SKU-wise, customer-wise, channel-wise and region-wise profitability analysis.
- Independently reviewing Sales & Marketing performance, including schemes, discounts,incentives, marketing spends and return on investment.
- Strengthening working capital management, including receivables, inventory, cash flow planning and banking.
- Driving cost optimisation and margin improvement across procurement, production,logistics and commercial spends.
- Strengthening SOPs, internal controls, approval mechanisms and process discipline across the organisation.
- Ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, monthly closing, statutory compliance and governance.
- Partnering closely with Sales, Production, Procurement and Supply Chain teams to improve business performance and execution.
- Building and strengthening the Finance team and developing strong FP&A; and business analytics capabilities.
- Providing the management with independent, data-backed insights for key strategic and operational decisions.

Candidate Profile

- Chartered Accountant (CA) preferred.
- Significant experience in senior finance leadership roles such as CFO,



Finance Controller, Head – Finance or equivalent.
- Robust preference for candidates with experience in FMCG, Packaged Foods, Food Processing, Consumer Products or distribution-intensive manufacturing businesses.
- Strong hands-on exposure to:
- Business planning and FP&A;
- MIS and business analytics
- Commercial finance
- Product / channel / customer profitability
- Cost and margin management
- Working capital and cash flow management
- Budgeting and performance reviews
- Internal controls and process improvement
- Banking and treasury
- Team development and business transformation

Ideal Candidate

GFPL is looking for a Business CFO / Transformation CFO who combines strong financial expertise with commercial understanding and execution capability.

The candidate should be:

- Business-oriented and commercially strong
- Analytical and data-driven
- Hands-on and execution-focused
- Strong in systems, processes and controls
- Comfortable working across multiple business functions
- Capable of constructively challenging business assumptions
- Strong in communication and stakeholder management
- Able to build teams and institutionalise performance discipline
- High on integrity, ownership and professional standards

Key Success Areas

The CFO will be expected to contribute towards:

High-Quality MIS & Business Visibility | Stronger Profitability & Margins | Improved Working Capital | Robust Systems & Controls | Better Decision-Making | Stronger Accountability | Scalable Processes | Sustainable Business Growth

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