Head of FP&A

Zodiac HR Consultants; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zodiac HR Consultants in Mumbai seeks an experienced FP&A lead to manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. You will partner with leadership to drive performance insights, build budgets by category/channel, and push for robust, timely reporting across the business.

You will own the AOP, quarterly forecasts and rolling forecasts, collaborate with Sales, Merchandising, Manufacturing and Operations for financial insight, and steer cost optimisation and working capital initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual operating plan and rolling forecast process across the business.
• Own the monthly reporting cycle and ensure leadership has a clear, timely view of business performance.
• Act as the finance partner to business teams, bringing financial rigour into commercial decisions.
• Continuously improve the planning and reporting infrastructure across the business.
• Lead the annual operating plan (AOP), quarterly forecasts and rolling forecasts across business units.
• Partner with business heads to build category and channel-level budgets, revenue and cost plans.
• Track budget vs. actual performance and flag variances with clear root-cause analysis.
• Prepare monthly MIS, board decks and management reporting packs with commentary.
• Build and maintain dashboards for revenue, margin, opex and working capital.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis to support pricing, investment and cost decisions.
• Partner with Sales, Merchandising, Manufacturing and Operations to provide financial insight into product, channel and account performance.
• Support CAPEX evaluation, business cases and ROI analysis for new investments.
• Drive cost optimisation initiatives and working capital improvement.
• Improve planning tools, templates and reporting systems for speed and accuracy.
• Standardise forecasting methodology and reporting cadence across business units.
• Ensure data integrity between FP&A outputs and the finance ledger.

Job description

1. Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning

Lead the annual operating plan and rolling forecast process across the business.

2. Business Performance & Management Reporting

Own the monthly reporting cycle and ensure leadership has a clear, timely view of business performance.

3. Business Partnering & Decision Support

Act as the finance partner to business teams, bringing financial rigour into commercial decisions.

4. Systems, Process & Controls

Continuously improve the planning and reporting infrastructure across the business.

Lead the annual operating plan (AOP), quarterly forecasts and rolling forecasts across business units.

• Partner with business heads to build category and channel-level budgets, revenue and cost plans.
• Track budget vs. actual performance and flag variances with clear root-cause analysis.
• Prepare monthly MIS, board decks and management reporting packs with commentary.
• Build and maintain dashboards for revenue, margin, opex and working capital.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis to support pricing, investment and cost decisions.
• Partner with Sales, Merchandising, Manufacturing and Operations to provide financial insight into product, channel and account performance.
• Support CAPEX evaluation, business cases and ROI analysis for new investments.
• Drive cost optimisation initiatives and working capital improvement.
• Improve planning tools, templates and reporting systems for speed and accuracy.
• Standardise forecasting methodology and reporting cadence across business units.
• Ensure data integrity between FP&A outputs and the finance ledger.