Finance Business Partner - AF & Unimart

UPL Limited (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070, LSE: UPLL) is a global provider of sustainable agriculture products and solutions, with annual revenue exceeding $6bn. We are a purpose-led company. Through OpenAg®, UPL is focused on accelerating progress for the food system. We are building a network that is reimagining sustainability, redefining the way an entire industry thinks and works – open to fresh ideas, innovation, and new answers as we strive towards our mission to make every single food product more sustainable. As one of the largest agriculture solutions companies worldwide, our robust portfolio consists of biologicals and traditional crop protection solutions with more than 14,000 registrations. We are present in more than 130 countries, represented by more than 10,000 colleagues globally. For more information about our integrated portfolio of solutions across the food value chain including seeds, post-harvest, as well as physical and digital services, please visit upl-ltd.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Finance Business Partner - AF & Unimart

OBJECTIVE:

Responsible for Finance Business partnering with Business Leadership team to facilitate business growth, provide strategic guidance and analytic/decision making support for evaluating and prioritizing business decisions and make the business more sustainable and profitable and ensure that the business has the necessary and appropriate financial direction, operational controls and reporting procedures to effectively and rapidly grow the business, while securing its financial strength and operating efficiency.

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Business Deliverables:

• Closely partnering with sales and marketing leadership and regional teams to achieve business KPIs including primary P/L responsibility for the business
• Regular monitoring of sales performance against targets and growth over last year
• Periodic Pricing and Margin governance at business and product level with a deep dive analysis on NRV and COGS changes and product mix analysis
• Actively partnering on product and collection scheme finalization and estimating outflows
• Monitoring business overheads and closely working with the stakeholders on improving spends efficacy
• Working Capital Management with a strong control on channel credit management and overdue

Budgeting & MIS:

• Closing Annual Budget for the business as per corporate guidelines through effective collaboration with cross functional teams

• Analytical review and actionable insights on monthly business performance in comparison with budget and last year with a focus on Geography wise performance, Portfolio wise performance, Margin Management, Overhead Optimization and improvement in Working Capital
• Closely working with the business teams for closing business forecast/estimates and update the leadership team on periodic basis to enable corrective action, if any

Special Projects, Simplification and Automation & Process Improvement:

• Leading the simplification and automation initiatives including opportunities in the areas of Customer engagement, spends effectiveness, process/hygiene excellence and leveraging IT
• Responsible for ensuring commercial controls across the value chain viz sales, procurement, logistics & marketing leading to better internal control environment
• Frame and drive implementation of commercial policies
• Preparation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) defining the business process, control measures, accounting procedures & entries including assignment of responsibility.

Accounts and Commercials:

• Closing UPL business books as per the corporate timelines
• P/L and B/S scrutiny on monthly / quarterly basis and take appropriate actions, wherever required
• Completion of Internal & Statutory Audit as per the corporate timelines.
• Stewardship of the assets and resources of the organization.

We are one team, for maximum impact. One team with shared goals. We all play for the team and no one plays against the team. We have a laser-like focus on what our customers need and want, on anticipating their future needs and on how we can create innovative solutions and experiences for them.

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