Business Finance Head

Hindustan Zinc; Rajasthan; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hindustan Zinc Limited, a Vedanta group company, seeks transformational leaders to join as Head of Finance Controllership for mining operations. You will lead budgeting, forecasting, MIS, capex/opex governance, and strategic business partnering with operations to drive productivity and cost efficiency.

Drive automation and data-driven decision making across finance processes. Build a high-performance finance team, ensure governance, compliance, and stakeholder engagement across site forums as

Qualifications

• Qualified CA/CMA with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret financial data.
• Experience in manufacturing, metals, mining or process industries preferred.
• Strategic thinker with business acumen and governance focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance controllership, budgeting, forecasting, MIS, and business performance reviews for mining operations, with actionable insights.
• Partner with operations to drive productivity, cost efficiency and optimization across mining, processing, maintenance, and services.
• Ensure governance of capex, opex, inventory, project spends, cash flow and working capital, with audits.
• Support strategic planning, investment evaluation, and project approvals as a strategic business partner.
• Drive automation, digitalization and data-driven decision making across finance processes.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and participate in site committees including Grievance, CSR, Welfare and Governance forums.
• Build a high-performance finance team and strengthen business partnering.

Skills

Financial analytics

Cost optimization

Capex governance

Business partnering

Data-driven decisions

Education

CA/CMA with 10+ years experience

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Vedanta, a future-focused and growth-oriented company is a fully integrated producer of Oil & Gas, Zinc - Lead - Silver, Aluminium, Power, Iron Ore & Steel, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Ferro-chrome and Manganese, with a fast growing metal recycling capacity, and a broad range of critical minerals. We are a dominant player in power generation, transmission, renewable energy solutions, optical fibre, display glass and soon semiconductors. With our world class, low-cost and long-life assets, Vedanta contributes 1.4% towards India’s GDP.

Hindustan Zinc is India's only and the world's second-largest zinc producer and the third-largest silver producer globally. With a market share of ~75% in India’s primary zinc market, we are implementing high-impact projects across our business locations to enhance volume and reduce costs as part of our growth capex agenda. With a strong leadership position in the domestic market and our growing global presence, our focus is set on expanding the production capacity to harness the unfolding demand opportunity. As we march together towards our core vision of Transforming for Good, we have an exciting opportunity for transformational leaders to join us and accelerate our growth journey.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead finance controllership, budgeting, forecasting, MIS, and business performance reviews for mining operations, while providing actionable insights through financial analytics and benchmarking.
• Partner with operations to drive productivity, cost efficiency and optimization across mining, processing, maintenance, and services.
• Ensure effective governance of capex, opex, inventory, project spends, cash flow and working capital, alongside compliance with accounting standards, statutory requirements, internal controls and audits.
• Support strategic planning, investment evaluation, and project approvals and act as a strategic business partner in delivering towards growth journey of HZL through financial stewardship, investment governance and performance management.
• Drive automation, digitalization and data-driven decision making across finance processes.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and participate in key site committees, including Grievance, School, CSR, Welfare and Governance forums.
• Build a high-performance finance team and strengthen business partnering.

Desired Attributes

• Qualified CA/CMA professional with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial and operational data and derive actionable insights.
• Experience in manufacturing, metals, mining or process industries preferred.
• Passionate high-potential professional with strong business acumen and an analytical mindset.