Key Responsibilities
1. Plant Finance & Controlling
- Manage day-to-day plant finance activities including month-end closing, accruals, provisions, and reconciliations.
- Monitor plant P&L, variance analysis (Actual vs Budget vs Forecast), and drive cost control initiatives with operations.
- Support capex evaluation, tracking, and post-implementation reviews.
- Ensure adherence to internal controls, accounting policies and statutory requirements at plant level.
2. Costing & Product Costing
- Own standard costing, BOM/routing review and periodic updates in SAP.
- Perform product costing, overhead absorption and cost roll-ups in SAP.
- Analyze material, labour and overhead variances; partner with production, supply chain and procurement for corrective actions.
- Support make vs buy, pricing and margin analysis through robust cost data.
3. FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
- Lead annual operating plan, quarterly forecast and monthly outlook for the plant.
- Prepare and review plant-level MIS, dashboards and management presentations.
- Provide analytical support on productivity, yield, efficiency, and cost optimization projects.
- Support scenario analysis, profitability analysis by product / SKU / customer as required.
4. SAP & Systems
- Work extensively on SAP (preferably CO, FI, MM, PP modules) for costing, reporting and controlling activities.
- Ensure data integrity, correct master data setup (cost centers, profit centers, material masters) and alignment with corporate guidelines.
- Support process automation and report simplification using SAP and other analytical tools (e.g., Excel/BI tools).