UPL - Finance Business Partner - AF - CA

Finance Business Partner - AF - Brand Business

OBJECTIVE:

Responsible for Finance Business partnering with Business Leadership team to facilitate business growth, provide strategic guidance and analytic/decision making support for evaluating and prioritizing business decisions and make the business more sustainable and profitable and ensure that the business has the necessary and appropriate financial direction, operational controls and reporting procedures to effectively and rapidly grow the business, while securing its financial strength and operating efficiency.

EDUCATION: CA

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE - 2 - 5 years

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Business Deliverables:

- Closely partnering with sales and marketing leadership and regional teams to achieve business KPIs including primary P/L responsibility for the business

- Regular monitoring of sales performance against targets and growth over last year

- Periodic Pricing and Margin governance at business and product level with a deep analysis on

NRV and COGS changes and product mix analysis

- Actively partnering on product and collection scheme finalization and estimating outflows

- Monitoring business overheads and closely working with the stakeholders on improving spending efficacy

- Working Capital Management with strong control on channel credit management and overdue

Budgeting & MIS:

- Closing Annual Budget for the business as per corporate guidelines through effective collaboration with cross functional teams

- Analytical review and actionable insights on monthly business performance in comparison with budget and last year with a focus on Geography wise performance, Portfolio wise performance, Margin Management, Overhead Optimization and improvement in Working Capital

- Closely working with the business teams for closing business forecast/estimates and updating the leadership team on a periodic basis to enable corrective action, if any

Special Projects, Simplification and Automation & Process Improvement:

- Driving simplification and automation initiatives including opportunities in the areas of Customer engagement, spend effectiveness, process/hygiene excellence and leveraging IT

- Responsible for ensuring commercial controls across the value chain viz sales, procurement, logistics & marketing leading to better internal control environment

- Frame and drive implementation of commercial policies

- Ensuring compliance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for business process, control measures, accounting procedures & entries including assignment of responsibility.

Accounts and Commercials:

- Closing UPL business books as per the corporate timelines

- Completion of Internal & Statutory Audit as per the corporate timelines.

- Stewardship of the assets and resources of the organization.

KNOWLEDGE:

Agri Industry Knowledge,SAP FICO, SD, MM, commercial acumen

SKILLS ATTITUDE

- Strong communicator, highly energetic to set the example for the team

- Developing the process-oriented approach and improving the visibility of service

- Ability to leverage interpersonal skills to establish rapport and develop relationships with all key stakeholders

- Well organized, able to set priorities well. Able to effectively multi task and juggle with multiple activities simultaneously

MOTIVES/ BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS

Proactive

Agile

Self-starter

Collaborative

Result oriented