Assistant Manager

Role Purpose :

Drive financial planning, performance analytics, and decision support for business and operations. Own budgeting and forecasting, strengthen cost governance, optimize inventory and enable data-driven decision-making across functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning (LRP)

• Own weekly/monthly MIS, dashboards, variance analysis, and early warning indicators

• Support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) covering volume, pricing, margins, and inventory

• Drive cost analytics, productivity initiatives, and budget adherence across functions

• Conduct profitability analysis (product/plant/Domain) and identify margin improvement levers

• Partner with procurement on purchase finance, spend variance, supplier benchmarking, and savings validation

• Track cost reduction and cost avoidance initiatives and realization

• Own inventory and working capital analytics

• Act as Finance Business Partner to operations, commercial, supply chain, and cross-functional teams

• Support business cases, pricing decisions, capex/opex proposals, and ad-hoc analysis

• Ensure data integrity, documentation, and compliance with internal controls.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong ownership mindset and execution focus

• High analytical capability with attention to detail

• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, lean environment and multi-tasking

• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; SAP knowledge preferred

Experience:

2–8 years

Qualification:

Qualified Chartered Accountant