Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis

India, Haryana

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Budgeting

  • Creation of Annual Business Plans and Latest Estimates through active co-ordination with Sales / Marketing and Operations functions

  • Develop Expense Budgets and operations KRAs through co-ordination with functional heads ensuring that functional goals are in sync with the India Affiliate goals

  • Budgeting and analysis of actual cost of operations/product including Variance analysis between Standard and Actual cost

  • Develop Income Statement and EBITDA targets

  • Upload India Entity Budget in BPC and track with BPC changes

  • Analysis Expenses Movement (Expenses Bridge)

  • Draw Capex Plan and month tracking against actual spend

MIS & Reporting

  • Analysis of the variances/trends with underlying business contributors for monthly Scorecard

  • Prepare Sales Variance Analysis and circulate

  • Prepare Margin Analysis and circulate

  • Report Monthly Actual Sales and Rx/Dx information in BPC

  • Report Monthly COP in BPC

  • Prepare Business Review deck and circulate

  • Prepare and consolidate weekly report and circulate

  • Prepare monthly Cash Flow with 12 month rolling forecast

  • Report Monthly Sales and EBITDA forecast in BPC

  • Prepare Capex spend report and upload into BPC

  • Draw monthly comparison of actual cost variance against std

  • Draw Gelatin cost variance analysis

  • Draw Power cost variance analysis

Monthly Closing & Statutory Audits

  • Inventory valuation and provisioning

  • Material consumption reconciliation (Value & Quantity)

  • GRIR and clearing account (Freight, custom, CENVAT) reconciliation and their accounting

  • Finalize CIF value

  • Finalize Purchase Register

  • Finalize CWIP movement and reconciliation

  • Balance sheet and PnL Schedule preparation (Inventory, CWIP, Consumption, Purchase etc)

  • Prepare Impairment analysis

  • Responsible for Inventory count

  • Material consumption accounting

  • Analysis the difference between SAP and manual working on product cost

Key Requirements:

  • CMA (CWA) & M.Com with minimum 7 years of relevant experience into cost Accounting and SAP implementation.

  • Certifications (Including professional qualification) : ACMI & ICMAI

  • Skills : Financial Planning and Budgeting

  • Location : Corporate Office Gurgaon and also willing to visit our Lonza Plant in Dharuhera thrice in a month.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Reference: R44670
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