Country Finance Manager - BFSI

Job Description:

- Own overall financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting for Blume Distribution.

- Strong commercial finance - business partnering orientation.

- Category - brand - SKU - customer - channel - wise profitability and margin analysis.

- Evaluate pricing, schemes, distributor - customer margins and commercial proposals before implementation.

- Strong working - capital management with particular focus on receivables, collections, inventory and ageing.

- Monitor inventory health, slow - non - moving stocks and financial exposure.

- Develop robust sales forecasting and forecast - accuracy governance in coordination with Sales and Supply Chain.

- Cost - to - serve analysis across customers, channels, logistics and business verticals.

- Establish clear profitability - P&L visibility for different business verticals.

- Coordinate closely with the factory - manufacturing company on transfer prices, product costing, claims, credit - debit notes and reconciliations.

- Ensure strong commercial controls around customer credit, schemes, marketing expenditure, POs, claims and other business commitments.

- Lead monthly financial - business reviews and provide meaningful insights rather than only reporting accounting numbers.

- Challenge Sales, Marketing and other functions constructively on profitability, working capital and financial implications of business decisions.

- Ensure statutory, tax, audit and financial - control compliance through the appropriate team - advisers.

- Build and strengthen finance processes, MIS and governance as the business scales.