Job Purpose

Support the business to achieve the topline budget while protecting the bottom line with financial controls, partner & liaise with diverse functions across the organisation to deliver the desired results and help the management take informed business decisions in a timely manner. Also ensure timely & accurate financial reporting and compliance with all statutory requirements.

Key Accountabilities

1.Business Partnering

Work closely with businesses teams to prepare the detailed annual budget for the specific regions allocated.

- Monitor actual sales on a regular basis and provide inputs to the management on budget achievements and reasons for variances; Analysis of budget vs. actual (volume, price and mix) budgeting control.
- Work with business and submit 3 months rolling sales forecasts every month.
- Analyse Business risks & ops and SKU mix optimization.
- Analyse competition and provide insights to achieve market beating growth.

2.Improve margin and cash flow to achieve profitability targets

Review P&Ls; monthly and monitor all expenses against budget.

- Support the business in Pricing decisions for tenders, new products or launches and changes in market requirements.
- Monitor and evaluate key KPIs and share findings and highlight key areas for effective action.
- Drive better product mix, identify and implement COGS reduction ops & find pricing opportunities to ensure improvement in overall profitability of business.
- Follow up on receivables, liaise with customers and ensure minimal overdue.

3.Monitor continuous supply of products to ensure availability in the market while also keeping check on inventory quality & wastages

Inventory management of the products based on sales.



• Analyse & raise red flags for non-moving/slow-moving or excess inventory being carried leading to business wastages. • Ensure minimal CoPE/write-off risk.

4.Review new and existing legal contracts and arrangements

Ensure compliance to all legal commitments as per commercial contracts. • Review new agreements to ensure terms are not onerous for the company. • Getting sanction checks and ensure compliance before entering any new transaction.

5.Evaluate new business deals & opportunities; highlight risks proactively and support the funding requirements & integration process

Evaluate the returns for the Company from any recent product / brand or M&A; deal; carry out necessary financial due diligence, capture all potential legal or commercial risks and share recommendations with management for decision making. • Support all funding requirements by liaising with the parent Co. or banks as may be required. • Help set up new business processes or integrate them with existing businesses.

6.Manage all accounting, banking and financial reporting activities

Co-ordinate with the local accountants/consultants for day-to-day accounting issues and ensure all monthly transactions are entered and maintained properly for 2 entities.

- Submission of Financial statements, templates, analytics,



eliminations and other closing related information to Corporate Finance as per closing timelines and facilitation of year end statutory audit & reporting process.
- Review the financials monthly and deep dive into major variances and errors in accounting.
- Ensure Intercompany transactions accounting and reconciliation with India team.
- Help to standardise formats and reconciliations on a timely basis.
- Manage all banking transactions and optimise the payments process wherever required.

7.Controls, Compliance & Simplification

Co-ordinate with audit teams for all data requirements & initiate timely action against all audit observations to ensure the necessary processes are put in place to avoid repeat of same errors. • Take initiative to contribute towards improvisation of system functions. Drive process simplification, automation and improve efficiencies. • Ensure compliance with tax laws, transfer pricing requirements and local country laws and regulations.

8.FP&A;

Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning for Asia & LATAM markets. • Develop market-wise P&L; forecasts, including revenue, gross margin, Opex, EBITDA, and working capital. • Perform variance analysis vs Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year, highlighting key drivers and risks. • Ensure timely and accurate submission of forecasts aligned with timelines and assumptions.

9.Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

Coordinate with Commercial teams across geographies for planning, reviews, and performance tracking. • Liaise with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Legal, HR, Costing, Business Development and Strategy for end-to-end business visibility. • Present insights and financial performance to senior management and leadership forums.

📌 Finance Business Partner & Controlling - EMEU (Mumbai)
🏢 Cipla
📍 Mumbai