Commercial Finance Manager East

Mondelēz International; India; Remote; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

International transfer policy

Job summary

Mondelēz International in Kolkata seeks an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to lead Finance partnering for the East business. You will be pivotal in influencing business decisions and driving profitable growth through strategic financial oversight.

This role involves managing budgeting, forecasting, and performance management across a diverse market landscape, ensuring operational discipline and compliance.

Qualifications

• Approximately 8–14 years of relevant experience in finance.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Sales/Commercial teams.
• Strong understanding of revenue growth strategies.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted Finance partner to Sales and Commercial leadership.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Ensure oversight of financial reporting and governance.

Skills

Commercial Finance

Team Leadership

Financial Governance

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Education

CA or MBA (Finance)

Job description

Job Description Commercial Finance Manager East Location: Kolkata | East Regional Branch

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Finance professional to lead Finance partnering for our East business. This is a business-facing role that combines commercial business partnering, planning and performance management, team leadership and strong financial governance. The role will partner closely with Sales and Commercial leadership to influence business decisions, drive profitable growth and strengthen the overall Commercial Finance capability across the markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Partnering: Act as a trusted Finance partner to Sales and Commercial leadership, providing insights and constructive challenge to support key business and commercial decisions.
• Commercial Finance: Partner the business on revenue growth, pricing, trade investments, customer/channel profitability, margins and go-to-market decisions.
• Planning & Performance: Lead budgeting, forecasting and short- and long-range financial planning; identify key performance drivers, risks and opportunities and translate them into actionable recommendations.
• Multi-Market Leadership: Provide Finance leadership across East India, Nepal and Bangladesh, navigating different market dynamics, commercial priorities and stakeholder environments.
• Operational & Financial Governance: Ensure strong oversight of month-end activities, financial reporting, commercial controls, compliance and governance, while maintaining accuracy and financial discipline.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop the Commercial Finance team, strengthening both functional and business partnering capabilities.
• Transformation & Simplification: Drive process improvement, standardization and automation of recurring Finance activities, creating greater capacity for insight-led business partnering.

What We're Looking For

• CA or MBA (Finance) with approximately 8–14 years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in Commercial Finance, Sales Finance or Business Finance, preferably within FMCG or a complex consumer-facing organisation.
• Demonstrated experience partnering Sales/Commercial teams and influencing business decisions.
• Strong understanding of commercial levers including revenue, pricing, trade spends, margins and customer/channel profitability.
• Experience in planning, forecasting, performance management and financial governance.
• Strong people leadership, analytical and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• A commercial mindset with the ability to balance business partnership with strong financial controls and operational discipline.

The Opportunity

This role provides an opportunity to combine commercial influence with end-to-end Finance ownership across a diverse multi-market landscape.

The successful candidate will play an important role in strengthening business partnering, developing the team and transforming Finance processes while ensuring strong financial governance across India East Region.

• Within Country Relocation support available
• for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer Policy

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths.

Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country.

We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

Mondelez International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type Regular Finance Planning & Performance Management Finance

At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right through offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about. We have a rich portfolio of strong brands – both global and local. Including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the number 1 position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy as well as the No. 2 position in gum Our 80,000 Makers and Bakers are located in our operations in more than 80 countries and are working to sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. They are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen, and happen fast. Join us and Make It An Opportunity!