General Manager - Finance Business Partner recruitment in Pune - bajaj auto ltd

There is a reason that it is not called Finance Business Partner but Business Finance Partner as their primary job is to partner the business by helping translate strategies into numbers. The key deliverables are :-

1. Topline and Market Share Ambition
2. Bottomline
3. Identification and driving Cost Savings Opportunities in Products up to implementation with involvement of all stakeholders
4. Dynamic Resource Allocation – to find the right utilization of monies to be deployed between opportunities
5. Pre and post eval – evaluating effectiveness of various interventions especially marketing actions around 4Ps – product, price, place and promotion
6. Market mapping including geography, product, spec, price, schemes, etc
7. Shadow Costing of Competition products and helping develop competitive strategies
8. Market Share analysis – gain loss, etc
9. Tracking key competition including innovation pipeline, recruitment, expansion, permissions, certificates, trademarks – an in-house expert on them
10. Liaison between BU and Finance to help smooth operations including preparation of proposals, etc
11. Doing scenario analysis and working with the BU to help them structure their strategies with numbers and analysis
12. Planning - Annual Operating Plan, medium term strategic plan, 4 quarter rolling forecast, pricing assumption basis market and cost assumptions, A&P assumptions, market share forecasts, new product introduction business case, etc

Competencies :-

1. Finance professional – CA or MBA Finance
2. Should have done a stint in Financial Planning & Analysis or Finance Business Partnering in a B2C business
3. Exposure to manufacturing organisation or being an engineer would be an added advantage
4. Individual Contributor role and hence needs to be self-starter
5. Ability to work in high pressure cross functional teams
6. Highly developed soft skills to manage conflicts
7. Ability to create stories and hypothesis thru numbers
8. Understand market research, market share analysis, consumer research, etc
9. Ready to look of answers for unstructured questions or doubts in unconventional areas