Role & responsibilities

1. Business Performance & Insights

- Own financial performance reviews for the assigned business/function, covering revenue, margins, costs, profitability and key business KPIs.
- Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast and prior periods; identify key drivers behind variances.
- Highlight significant deviations and recommend transparent corrective actions.
- Develop forward-looking views on risks, opportunities and business performance.
- Simplify complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for business leaders.

2. Business Planning & Forecasting

- Partner with business teams on annual operating plans, budgets and periodic forecasts.
- Challenge assumptions and ensure plans are supported by robust business drivers and economics.
- Develop scenario analysis and sensitivities to support strategic decisions.
- Track delivery against agreed plans and proactively flag emerging gaps.

3. Commercial & Strategic Finance

- Evaluate business cases, new initiatives, investments and strategic opportunities from a financial and commercial perspective.
- Assess ROI, payback, profitability and long-term value creation.
- Identify key growth levers and opportunities to improve business economics.
- Challenge decisions where financial returns, costs or assumptions are not aligned with business objectives.
- Support leadership in making economics-based decisions.

4. Cost & Profitability Management





- Identify key cost drivers and opportunities for cost optimization.
- Partner with functional teams to establish appropriate cost guardrails and improve cost accountability.
- Track initiatives to deliver sustainable savings and productivity improvements.
- Drive focus on profitability / Store unit economics

5. Cross-functional Business Partnership

- Build strong relationships with business, operations, marketing, supply chain, HR and other functional leaders.
- Participate in key business reviews and provide an independent finance perspective.
- Influence stakeholders through data, insights and sound commercial judgement.
- Encourage ownership of financial outcomes across the organization.

Preferred candidate profile

- 3 -7 years of experience in FP&A;, Business Finance, Commercial Finance, Finance Business Partnering or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of P&L;, business drivers, profitability and financial modelling.
- Experience working closely with business teams and functional leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to translate numbers into business insights and actions.
- Strong commercial acumen and willingness to challenge assumptions.
- Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous and highly cross-functional environment.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modelling; experience with BI/visualisation tools is preferred.

📌 Finance Business Partner (Mumbai)
🏢 Hardcastle Restaurants
📍 Mumbai