Business Finance Manager

Business Finance Manager Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.  You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: This position directly works with India FP&A leader to drive revenue management across the business This role partners with FP&A and India Leadership team to design and drive methodology and tools in the markets to identify Net Realized Revenue opportunities across the following but not limited to: Pricing (including pricing strategy and execution etc.) Price pack architecture (tactical whitespaces etc.) Mix Management (portfolio and channel / customer etc.) Promotion Optimization (discounts, allowances & trade spend etc.) Commercial Policy Optimization (trade terms negotiation etc.) The role supports FP&A team in managing SG&A and A&CP budget & actual management. Working closely with Finance Director and Functional leaders in budget forecasting, utilisation and highlighting deviations from the plan The role also supports in cash flow forecasting and reporting The role will be expected to collaborate, identify, execute and leverage best in class RGM insights / dashboards Market Research and identification of RGM best practices in FMCG industry Responsible for RGM opportunity identification & implementation across all channels Key Deliverables: Revenue Growth Management Build deep expertise in RGM and help develop playbooks and best practices for sharing across RGM team, markets and regional sector teams Conduct business analyses & generate insight for, a) identification of NRR (Net Realized Revenue) opportunities within specific markets x category cohorts to be executed within the year; b) implementation tracking for ongoing project reviews; c) building a pipeline of opportunities for execution in following years to enable sustainable NRR growth; and d) in-country governance & processes to drive RGM  Collaborate with teams to create the measurement and tracking of execution and results of each initiative. Review and understand cause of deviation from results; share learnings with broader team for course correction. Delivering business analysis projects, e.g: Spends optimization to improve the effectiveness of spends Prioritisation of packs*channel*customers to drive greater returns on investments Develop appropriate RGM dashboards and tracking methodologies for top management, country leadership & in-country commercial teams Budget Management Implement zero base budgeting of SG&A expenses for the annual business plan roll up. Work with India Leadership team and other functional heads in preparing itemised budget forecast for all major expense lines Drive target achievement of SG&A% to NSV through monthly review of actual vs plan budget utilisation with budget owners and identify reasons for deviation so that corrective actions can be taken Be the central SPOC on all matters pertaining to SG&A line