Associate Manager Finance

Overview

Support the endtoend preparation of Innovation PLs by driving financial assumptions, ensuring crossfunctional alignment, identifying risks/opportunities, and strengthening governance in co-ordination with BU CF lead. Also, support financial planning and reporting including tracking of business initiatives and AM spend.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate and analyze financial inputs from planning systems (e.g., TM1) and stakeholder templates to support project and business reviews.
• Maintain and update trackers, financial models, and planning files supporting key processes such as AOP/ACP, periodic forecasts, and performance reviews.
• Contribute to AM (Advertising Marketing) financial tracking, budget monitoring, and performance analysis, ensuring alignment with approved plans and initiatives.
• Sharing monthly sales data, insights reports, AOP/HFM submissions.
• Updating Financial Inputs in MyInnovation, maintaining mapping in mosaic to Innovation project codes and validating it with Cockpit
• Support data validation, assumption checks, and alignment of financial inputs across multiple sources to ensure accuracy and consistency in coordination with CF BP in BU
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., FPA, Commercial, Sales, Marketing, and Project/Program Managers) to collect and validate required financial and operational information in coordination with CF BP in BU
• Prepare working files and preliminary analysis to support governance routines, review meetings, and decision-making forums in coordination with CF BP in BU
• Support ad-hoc analysis and requests such as pricing reviews, business case updates, system inputs, and preparation of materials for internal approvals or leadership discussions in coordination with CF BP in BU

Qualifications

• Experience managing a PL
• 4+ years of experience in finance and planning
• CA/CMA preferred
• FMCG/Manufacturing industry experience
• Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, TM1/Mosaic, HFM
• Tableau knowledge
• Strong excel skills
• Able to work independently and takes initiative
• Capable of managing multiple time sensitive priorities simultaneously
• Detail-oriented; organized in approach and in document maintenance
• Ability to function well in a team environment
• Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience
• Exceptional communication skills. Proficiency in English language