Associate Manager Finance

Overview

Support the end‑to‑end preparation of Innovation P&Ls by driving financial assumptions, ensuring cross‑functional 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 A&M 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 A&M (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., FP&A, 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 P&L
• 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