Assistant Manager - Accounts

Asian Paints; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints in Mumbai is seeking a Corporate Finance professional to drive COPA reporting, margin analytics, and category insights, collaborating with Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain and IT to enable data-driven decisions on product performance, pricing, and category strategy.

The role emphasizes strengthening financial accuracy through reconciliation with financial statements and leading automation initiatives to improve reporting efficiency, scalability, and insight generation.

Qualifications

• COPA reporting
• Margin analytics
• Reconciliation of product/category margins

Responsibilities

• End-to-end COPA cycle execution and validations
• Prepare and analyze product category gross margins and variance
• Reconcile product-level net margins with Divisional/Regional P&L and Standalone P&L
• Prepare CFO MIS on product performance and drivers
• Benchmark competition across key product categories
• Drive automation to remove manual COPA P&L tasks
• Lead team to ensure accuracy and timely delivery

Job description

Location: Mumbai, MH, IN

Areas of Work: Corporate Finance

Job Id: 15119

External Job Description

Job Purpose

To play a pivotal role in driving product category profitability through robust COPA reporting, margin analytics, and business-focused insights.

The role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain, and IT, enabling data-driven decisions on product performance, pricing, competition benchmarking, and category strategy.

The incumbent will also contribute to strengthening financial accuracy through reconciliation with financial statements and lead automation initiatives to improve reporting efficiency, scalability, and insight generation.

Business Responsibility Areas

• End-to-end ownership of COPA cycle execution including out of cycle adjustment validations
• Preparation and analysis of product category-level gross margins and variance analysis
• Reconciliation of product-level net margins with Divisional / Regional P&L and Standalone P&L
• Detailed presentations for focus categories and presenting insights to Group Brand Managers in Marketing
• Preparation of CFO MIS on product performance, trends and key drivers
• Competition benchmarking across key product categories to identify gaps and opportunities
• Drive automation initiatives to eliminate manual intervention in COPA P&L preparation
• Team supervision and capability building to ensure accuracy and timely delivery