General Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

ABFRL; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

ABFRL invites a Chartered Accountant to lead FP&A activities in Mumbai. The role focuses on delivering annual business plans and rolling forecasts, while driving inputs from all functions and validating data accuracy for senior management.

The incumbent will develop monthly MIS decks, perform variance analysis, and provide actionable insights to improve profitability across stores and zones. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• CA with exposure to FP&A and budgeting processes.
• Strong ability to analyze data, derive insights and present findings.
• Experience in planning, forecasting and variance analysis for business units.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of Annual Business Plan and rolling forecasts.
• Drive inputs from all functions for annual plan and rolling plan and analyze impact.
• Validate source data capture and key output files for senior management.
• Provide insights on various business scenarios and forecast accuracy.
• Monitor costs and revenue drivers against budgets and targets.
• Develop periodic MIS decks for stakeholders and management reviews.
• Support profitability analysis for business and retail operations.
• Review performance drivers and track action plan progress.
• Present findings to the Board and investors when required.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Management reporting

Stakeholder communication

Education

CA (Chartered Accountant)

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Rqeuired CA 2011 to CA 2013 Passout:

Annual Business Plan and rolling Forecasts

• Ensuring accurate and timely delivery of Annual Business plan and Rolling forecasts.
• Driving inputs from all functions for annual business plan and rolling plan and driving the analysis on inputs and its business impact.
• Validating the source data capture process and key output files for the senior management.
• Driving key insights and analytics around various business scenarios of financial planning.
• Validating forecasted financials against past performance / norms and targets set by Management
• Monitoring the costs and revenue drivers for performance against budgets.

Monthly Financial analysis and MIS Deck for Various stake holders

• Develop financial statements and prepare periodical reports and Monthly MIS decks for various stakeholders and periodically reviewing the same to derive corrective actions for any shortfalls.
• Critically analyzing the balance sheet elements of the business and projecting / monitoring net working capital and cash generation of the business.
• Analyzing and providing key insights into improving zonal performance by supporting Zonal reviews and driving key action points.

Quarterly and Annual Financial decks for reporting

• Driving key insights and analytics around quarterly and annual performance of the business for Board and investors presentation along with industry and competition performance.

Support in Business and Retail Profitability

• Providing extensive data support to Operations team, Zonal Team and related functions. Circulating periodic reports to track the performance against budget. Monitor performance trends against plans and reasons for the deviation.
• Develop and maintain standard procedures, formats and systems to facilitate smoother and agile reporting environment.
• Monitor major sellex and overhead trends. Support commercial and operations team in tracking budget vs achievement.
• Validating the retail deck and driving key insights into profitability and efficiency of the stores and zones.
• Provide detailed report of unit/storewise, cost saving/overspend.
• Monitor the actual performance of the as compared to Rolling plans and budgets.

Review and analysis

• Analyze various business performance drivers such as GM Bridge, EBITDA Bridge, Revenue bridge, sellex bridge, SQFT Analysis and trends analysis.
• Draft and support action plan for negative variances and areas of improvement.
• Track progress of implementation of such action plans and highlight deviations, if any.

Competition Analysis

• Review and Analyze competition deck and provide timely insights to the management.

People Management

• Identifying training needs, development planning and grooming talent within respective departments
• Setting clear performance expectations and providing constructive feedback to the team on a regular basis
• To maintain an employee connect with the team, seeking feedback from the team regularly