Main Goal

We are looking for a Senior Business Finance Manager – Commercial & Operations, Chartered Accountant (CA) with 10 + years of Experience  shall be responsible for business planning & decision support for key business processes like Order to Cash , Production and Plant Finance, Reporting, Variance Analysis and Month end closing and support key finance strategies and initatives. 

Function

Act as the key finance business partner to Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations teams. Support strategic decision-making through financial insights, planning, and performance analysis while ensuring compliance with financial policies and accounting standards.

Job description

Financial Planning & Reporting

Good working experience on budgeting, forecasting and long-term strategic business plans. Preparation of MIS and dashboard for management and Variance analysis. Ability to provide insights based on Variance Analysis. 

Order-to-Cash Process

As Business Finance contact for Sales & Marketing team review processes of Order to Cash and provide business decision support. Make SOPs for Order to Cash Process and implement. Review Customer Credit, Collections and demand fulfilment process. Provide Sales MIS, manager AR module in ERP. Analyse and review Sales Operating Expenses and provide product wise and geography wise profitability statements.

Production & Plant Operations

Prepare Cost Sheet and review Production and Plant Operating expenses working with supply operations team. Review control over Inventory Processes from Field to Plant and in Warehouses. Drive cost efficiencies and control and play advisory role to functional heads 

Cross Functional Collaboration & External Stakeholder Management

Ability to interact with cross functional managers and HODs to provide analysis and insights to help improvement of business processes and internal control environment. A proactive leader to work effectively in cross functional team. Ability to interact with Bankers, tax consultants, auditors, taxation departments, vendors and customers.

Team Management & Coaching

Ability to manage a team of 3-5 people with strong ability to provide guidance to team on regular basis in order to help team to achieve their goal. Ability to identify training need of team and provide training and coaching to the team members. Ability to motivate and inspire team members with high team engagement and allocation of resources to enhance business support.

System and Business Understanding & Internal Control Review

Strong knowledge of ERP system and ability to advance digitization and automation in system. Understand business and commercial operations and support business decision making and business process simplifications and control improvement with thorough understanding of business end to end. Knowledge of Group Reporting tool for financial reporting. Writing SOP and review internal control 

Accounting & Taxation

Ability to conduct Month End Closing in totality coordinating within finance and cross functional team. Ability to conduct Month End closing with accuracy and by D+4 basis. Working knowledge on Income Tax and GST laws.

What we expect of you

•  Working knowledge of Planning and Reporting Tools . Good Excel and Powerpoint Skills and articulation of variance analysis . Ability to understand business and business processes

• Good knowledge of Account Receivable and Credit Process. Ability to work with Cross Functional team and develop good working rapport and maintaining sound business process control 

• Drive Cost Efficiencies and cost control environment

• Develop strong team collaboration and working relationship with cross functional team. Address internal customer need and help business achieve strong and long-term objective.

• A positive and motivating team player who can work with cross functional teams and also train and coach his team for capability building . Bold to implement new and innovative solution and adapt to learn new systems and processes

• Working experience of any ERP, Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills. Knowledge of BI Tools or Reporting Tools preferred. Example: QlikView, Hyperion.
• Good knowledge of Indian Accounting Standard and IFRS and ability to meet Statutory Auditor need and requirement for Audits

Skills

Your benefits and working environment

• Opportunity to work with a leading global agricultural organization Limagrain India Pvt. Ltd..

• Exposure to strategic finance and business decision-making across commercial and operational functions.

• Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams and international stakeholders.

• Opportunities for professional growth, leadership development, and learning.

• Competitive compensation and a performance-driven culture.

Recruitment process

• Application Review: Our HR team will review your application and shortlist candidates based on qualifications and experience.

• Initial HR Discussion: Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an initial discussion to understand experience and career aspirations.

• Technical / Functional Interview: Selected candidates will participate in interviews with the Finance Leadership Team.

• Final Interview: Final interaction with senior management to assess role alignment and leadership fit.

• Offer & Onboarding: Successful candidates will receive an offer and onboarding details from the HR team.