IOps Analyst

JOB SUMMARY

This role plays a critical part in enabling cost transparency, forecasting accuracy, and financial discipline across COGS and Manufacturing Overheads. It involves close collaboration with business teams including category managers, plant teams, and FP&A leadership to support key deliverables around cost planning, reporting, analysis, and building digital capability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Cost Governance & Operational Reviews

• Lead cost governance routines across Finance and Operations teams.

• Drive structured cost performance reviews with Operations leadership, ensuring accountability and transparency.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Collaborate with plant finance teams to develop annual overhead budgets and quarterly forecasts.

• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment of assumptions across manufacturing sites.

Financial Performance Monitoring

• Monitor monthly budget vs. actual performance for manufacturing overheads.

• Identify variances and cost overruns early and drive timely cost containment actions.

• Prepare and analyze monthly manufacturing overhead reports by unit and cost category.

• Provide insights on key cost drivers, trends, and deviations from approved budgets.

Risk & Opportunity Management

• Conduct cadence based overhead reviews with clear insights and early flagging of risks and opportunities (R&O).

• Communicate cost risks and opportunities across the value chain in a structured manner.

Cost Efficiency & Savings Initiatives

• Drive cost saving initiatives across plants; track progress and validate delivered benefits.

• Partner with operations team to identify new efficiency opportunities and enable execution.

Business Partnering & Management Reporting

• Partner with cross functional teams to support business decisions with data driven insights.

• Evaluate and track bottler manufacturing cost trends across units, identify variances, and report business implications

• Lead preparation and delivery of management and business review presentations.

INTERACTIONS

INTERNALLY :

Operations Leadership Team, Factory finance teams and Other verticals of finance

EXTERNALLY:

Statutory Audit team

KEY PERFORMANCE INDEX

• Quality and accuracy in reports
• Adherence to budget and deviation reporting
• Driving insights and Review governance

PROFILE DETAILS

QUALIFICATION:

• Chartered Accountant, 1st attempt with an experience of 2 -3 years Or
• MBA finance from a premier institute

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

Essential/Must-have:

• Expert level understanding of Indian accounting standards (Ind As) and tax rules
• Handled reporting & analysis, financial accounting & consolidation
• Business acumen & partnering
• Understanding of Processes & Information Systems
• Making effective (T A I) presentations (T- time bound , A-accuracy and I- impactful)
• Good command on MS-Office (Excel, Word and PPT) functions

Desirable/Good to have:

• Prior Experience in Alcobev Industry, Analytics background

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

Essential/Must-have:  Collaboration, Bold & Agile

Desirable/Good to have:  Value Differences, Demonstrate Self-awareness, Drive results

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