About Our Client Our client is a manufacturing company undergoing a significant phase of growth and expansion. The organization is looking to strengthen its business finance, financial planning and controllership capabilities.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the Financial Controller will act as a business-facing finance partner and lead the financial planning and performance-management agenda.

Key responsibilities will include

- Owning MIS, budgeting, forecasting, P&L; reporting and variance analysis - Developing product-wise, customer-wise and business-unit profitability - Driving product costing, pricing, margin analysis and cost optimization - Partnering with manufacturing on BOM costing, inventory, yield, productivity and factory economics - Monitoring working capital, cash flow and treasury requirements - Reviewing commercial contracts, customer credit and payment terms - Strengthening financial controls, governance and management reporting - Developing dashboards and financial models for management decision-making - Supporting capex evaluation, new plants and business-expansion initiatives - This is a business-facing role requiring the incumbent to explain performance, anticipate future outcomes and recommend appropriate actions. The position would have a support team.

The Successful Applicant The successful candidate should be:





- A qualified Chartered Accountant - Possessing 8 to 17 years of post-qualification experience - Robust in FP&A;, MIS, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis - Experienced in manufacturing finance, product costing and inventory control - Well versed in P&L; management, working capital and cash-flow planning - Commercially oriented and capable of partnering with operations, sales, supply chain and senior leadership - Strong in financial modelling, analytics and management presentations - Comfortable working directly with the Managing Director - Hands-on, agile and comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment - Capable of challenging business assumptions constructively Candidates from manufacturing industry are required.

Experience in capacity expansion, new-plant setup or a high-growth business would be advantageous. What's on Offer - Direct exposure to the Managing Director and senior leadership - Opportunity to influence P&L;, pricing, profitability and strategic decisions - A broad mandate combining FP&A;, business finance and controllership - Opportunity to build scalable finance systems and processes - Exposure to manufacturing operations and business expansion - Potential progression into a broader finance leadership position - Mumbai-based role - Working schedule of Monday to Friday and alternate Saturdays

📌 Business Finance Controller (Mumbai)
🏢 Michael Page
📍 Mumbai