Sr Team Member- FP&A

Cipla; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cipla in Mumbai seeks a strategic FP&A professional to drive planning, budgeting, and performance reporting. You will prepare consolidated management accounts, support monthly P&L closings, and deliver insightful dashboards for senior leadership.

The role emphasizes cost control, risk assessment, and external investor communications. Your work will involve collaboration across BUs and corporate functions, with automation of management books and scenario forecasting to guide growth and

Responsibilities

• Prepare standalone & consolidated management accounts.
• Collaborate with Corporate Accounts on monthly P&L closing activities.
• P&L and KPI reporting for leadership.
• Monthly performance flash: sales by BU and provisional P&L/LBE for Board.
• Highlight key business risks: sales, mix, costs, competition.
• Improve investor relations materials for external communication.
• Hold actual vs budget discussions with BUs.
• Prepare business analysis: DTM/B2B, book integration implications.
• Monthly variance analysis for HR, Legal, IT, and action planning.
• Identify risks & opportunities in P&L delivery: one-offs, recurring costs.
• Coordinate with corporate functions & BU CFOs on cost control.
• Automation of management books to drive efficiency.
• Design/deploy corporate dashboards & scorecards.
• Plan next year's budget with BUs/Functions (bottoms up).
• Integrate budget plans for central budgeting & P&L prep.
• Provide trend-based BU LBE guidance to leadership.
• Forecast quarterly and full-year P&L via simulations.
• P&L cloning and FSA of key competitors.
• Support teams on special/one-off projects/requests/analysis.

Job description

Job Purpose

Deliver annual plan and focus on sustainable value creation through automation of systems and processes, effective communication, strong collaboration with BUs and Functions and action oriented recommendations while adding competitive impact to enable management steer the company into the top quartile of the sector in terms of value creation.

Key Accountabilities

Deliver simplified & comprehensive Board Presentations on results along with detailed scorecards for the month & complete bridge vs plan to enable management identify hits and misses

• Prepare standalone & consolidated management accounts


• Collaborate with Corporate Accounts with the monthly P&L closing activities


• P&L and key performance metrics reporting


• Monthly flash on business performance (sales by BU & provisional P&L / LBE) for the Board


• Provide visibility to the leadership on the key business risks - sales, mix, costs, competition


• Enhance the quality of the investor relations material to provide better external communication

Partner with BUs and Functions to achieve cost management and delivery of annual plan

• Holding actual vs budget discussions with BUs


• Understanding and preparing business analysis - DTM / B2B, book integration implications etc.


• Performing monthly variance analysis for corporate functions (HR, Legal, IT etc.) and intervention planning to help deliver the plans


• Identify risks & opportunities in P&L delivery - one offs, recurring costs assessment


• Work with corporate functions & BU CFOs for ring fencing & cost control

Drive Compliance and Simplification to ensure proactive decision making

• Automation - Automation of management books


• Design and deployment of Corporate Dashboards / Scorecards

Design the annual operating plan / budget and forecast future performance for the company to monitor and control performance (growth & margins)

• Work with the BUs/Functions on the next year budget planning for bottoms up


• Integrate the budget plans for one central budgeting & P&L prep


• Provide trend based and BU LBE guidance to business leadership team


• Simulation based forecasting for the quarterly & full year P&L

Benchmark vs peer group to ensure the company is in the top quartile of the sector and undertake special projects as required

• P&L cloning and FSA of key competitors


• Help different teams in the organization on special/one-off projects/requests/analysis