Factory/ Plant Controller - CP&O

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis professional to compile, analyze, and communicate insights on financial performance. You will partner with local controllers, develop scenario analyses, and support month-end close, ensuring accuracy and value-added reporting across regions.

Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in accounting with CMA/CA/MBA and up to four years of FP&A experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with CMA/CA/MBA.
• Up to 4 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Improve efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and standardizing reports across countries/divisions.
• Strong ability to identify opportunities for automation and data-driven insights.
• Proficient in SAP FICO, including CO-PA; familiar with SD, PP, MM, PS.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business performance vs budget and forecast.
• Prepare financial analyses for scenario planning and sensitivity analyses.
• Partner with local controllers to understand drivers of financial performance.
• Support month-end closing and reconcile financial data.
• Prepare P&L and balance sheet reviews and suggest corrections.
• Contribute to MIS reporting and present findings to management.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Automation & process improvement

MIS reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting CMA/CA/MBA

Tools

SAP FICO CO-PA

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Providing Financial Planning and Controlling expertise to the organization by compiling and analyzing metrics, identifying trends and issues, communicating insights to relevant stakeholders, and recommending actions to improve financial performance.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Perform analysis of business performance versus budget and forecast.
• Perform benchmarking of key performance indicators with external and internal peers.
• Business partnering with local controllers to understand drivers of financial performance, identify trends, and propose value‑added insights.
• Prepare financial analysis for “what‑if” scenarios, sensitivity analysis, and assess overall business impact.
• Analyze overhead under/absorption and identify root causes.
• Prepare and analyze Product and Customer profitability.
• Track and analyze Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) budget vs actual spend monthly.
• Analyze inventory, Net Working Capital (NWC), and cash flow.
• Support month‑end closing activities to ensure financial accuracy.
• Perform P&L and Balance Sheet reviews and propose necessary corrections.
• Analyze monthly data for MIS reporting and convert it into meaningful formats.
• Perform activities related to Internal Controls and SOX audits.
• Compare monthly/quarterly MIS data against benchmarks and provide comments/remarks.
• Support preparation of financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Validate accuracy of financial data through reconciliations and exception reviews.
• Handle ad‑hoc assignments based on business urgency and requirements.
• Provide information to management by assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, and presenting findings and analysis.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Should have Qualification into bachelor’s degree in accounting with CMA / CA / MBA.
• Up to 4 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis.
• Optimize personal performance by increasing productivity through automation, elimination of duplicate work, and coordination of information requirements
• Proactively identify opportunities for processing and report standardization across countries, divisions, and business units
• Adhere to Controlling & Planning KPIs to ensure continuous improvement and service quality.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with independent problem‑solving capability.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Hands‑on experience in SAP FICO, including CO‑PA.
• Understanding of other SAP modules such as SD, PP, MM, and PS.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Proactive mindset with strong commitment to quality and ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Manufacturing industry experience preferred.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.