Assistant Manager – Finance (Plant role)
Description/Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for preparing annual plant budgets & start plans along with monthly rolling forecast
- Variance analysis actual v/s budget/rolling forecasts for Opex and Capex including analysing &
accurately reporting monthly financial results of the plant as per global reporting templates within defined/
due timelines & managing capex cash outflow projections & actual tracking on monthly basis &
coordinating with cross functional teams to ensure delivery. - Prepares capex projects status update on actuals v/s IO/plan & monthly dashboards
- Monitor expenditures in accordance with company fiscal policy and project cash flows to Corporate treasury team
- Prepares Capex/investment proposals w.r.t. payback & return on capital invested
- Materials usage variance analysis and proposals on action plans to optimize yield recovery
- Preparing milk dashboard with KPIs & insights on milk system/milk solids deviations
- Plant related payables/receivables as per company policies and agreement commitments
- Ensuring compliance to company’s fiscal policies & Dango (Danone Compliance Programme)
- Compliance of applicable laws i.e. Indirect Taxes (GST), Direct Taxes (TDS) & applicable
Factory labour laws etc - Periodic fixed assets and inventory reconciliation and proposal for variances and drafting write off/write
back notes - Ensuring monthly/quarterly closing activities by taking appropriate provisions, closure of production
Orders - Capex management from ideation to implementation
- RM/PM/FG inventory & fixed assets controls by ensuring periodic verifications & giving heads up
on any risks - Support to plant team on day to day basis e,g timely payments, process costing, financial analysis/
information - Partnering with SSD for negotiations, contract validation and payment terms.
Location
Lalru, Punjab
Qualification
CA/ICWA preferably first attempt pass candidate
Experience
- Should have 2 to 3 years post qualification experience along with min 1 year plant finance budgeting/MIS & cost controlling experience in FMCG company
- Hands on experience on SAP ERP environment
- Well verse with MS Office applications
- Should possess sharp presentation & effective communication skills
- Candidate should be pro-active in cost analysis to identify cost savings opportunities, driving efficiencies across all functions and overall cost effectiveness of the plant ensuring compliance to all corporate policies & applicable laws of the land.