Manager Integrated Supply Chain Finance

Role Overview:

The Manager Integrated Supply Chain Finance acts as a strategic finance partner to the Supply Chain function, enabling data-driven decision-making and financial efficiency across procurement, production, logistics, and inventory management. The role ensures financial discipline, cost optimization, and value creation throughout the end-to-end supply chain, aligning financial insights with operational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations teams to drive financial performance and identify value improvement opportunities.
• Support strategic decision-making through scenario modeling, ROI analysis, and cost–benefit evaluations.
• Participate in S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) discussions, providing financial insights on demand planning, capacity utilization, and inventory targets.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the entire supply chain function.
• Analyze variances between budget, forecast, and actual performance to identify root causes and corrective actions.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor key cost drivers, material usage efficiency, and working capital performance.
• Track and control manufacturing costs, conversion costs, logistics expenses, and procurement spend.
• Implement cost-saving initiatives and continuous improvement programs in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive standard cost analysis and support product costing updates in coordination with the finance and operations teams.
• Monitor inventory valuation, obsolescence, and slow-moving items; recommend optimization strategies.
• Analyze days of inventory, days of payables, and days of receivables to improve cash conversion cycle.
• Provide financial oversight for stock reconciliations, write-offs, and provisioning.
• Ensure adherence to financial controls, company policies, and audit requirements across supply chain operations.
• Support compliance with internal controls (e.g., SOX/ICFR, if applicable).
• Validate supplier payment terms, pricing mechanisms, and contracts from a financial standpoint.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly management reports for supply chain financial performance.
• Deliver actionable insights through trend analysis, cost bridges, and benchmarking against industry peers.
• Support ad-hoc analysis for leadership and finance business reviews.

Education & Experience:

• CA qualified.
• 6 –10 years of experience in finance roles, with at least 3 years in supply chain or manufacturing finance.

Skills:

• Business Acumen & Strategic Thinking
• Data-Driven Decision-Making
• Financial Analysis & Modeling
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills