The Role: Business Finance Senior Analyst

The Business Finance Senior Analyst will serve as a key finance partner supporting the Hyderabad Manufacturing Plant. The role is responsible for delivering accurate product costing, manufacturing cost analysis, and cost performance insights to support operational and strategic decision-making. Working closely with plant finance, operations, procurement, and supply chain stakeholders, you will ensure costing accuracy, drive cost transparency, validate productivity and cost-saving initiatives, and provide actionable financial insights. You will also contribute to process standardization, continuous improvement, and digital transformation initiatives to enhance costing efficiency and business performance.

Product Costing & Manufacturing Cost Management

• Lead end-to-end product costing activities across GSC manufacturing plants in India, ensuring accurate and timely cost reporting.

• Maintain and validate standard costs, including annual cost roll-ups and periodic updates to ensure costing accuracy.

• Analyze manufacturing costs, including direct materials, labor, overhead, freight, and inventory-related costs.

• Partner with plant operations, procurement, industrialization, and supply chain teams to identify cost drivers and improvement opportunities.

• Monitor and analyze Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Bill of Materials (BOM), routings, and manufacturing variances to ensure costing integrity.

• Ensure accurate costing structure for new product introductions, product transfers, and engineering changes.

• Validate cost savings initiatives, productivity projects, localization efforts, and other manufacturing improvement programs.

Financial Analysis & Business Performance

• Deliver insightful analysis of manufacturing performance through cost, productivity, and profitability reporting.

• Perform variance analysis between actual results, standard costs, forecasts, and budgets, identifying key business drivers and risks.

• Analyze:

  • Product cost performance
  • Material cost evolution
  • Direct labor productivity
  • Purchase productivity
  • Price, Volume, Mix, and FX impacts
  • Freight and logistics costs
  • Inventory-related performance indicators

• Translate financial results into actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders.

Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

• Support monthly closing activities related to costing and manufacturing performance.

• Prepare and maintain manufacturing cost forecasts, budgets, and financial outlooks.

• Provide regular reporting and analysis to Finance Business Partners, Plant Leadership Teams, and GSC stakeholders.

• Support Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) through meaningful financial insights and performance narratives.

Business Partnering

• Act as the trusted finance partner for GSC manufacturing operations.

• Collaborate with plant finance, procurement, supply chain, industrialization, engineering, and operations teams to support business objectives.

• Provide financial guidance for operational decisions, productivity programs, sourcing initiatives, and manufacturing investments.

• Challenge assumptions, identify risks, and support informed decision-making through data-driven analysis.

Data Analytics, Digitalization & Continuous Improvement

• Extract, analyze, and interpret large and complex datasets to drive operational and financial insights.

• Develop automated reporting solutions and dashboards to improve visibility and decision-making.

• Leverage tools such as Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, Tableau, UiPath, or similar solutions to improve efficiency and reporting accuracy.

• Drive standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement of costing and financial processes across GSC plants.

• Support deployment of global costing and FP&A processes, tools, and best practices.

Preferred Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing finance, costing, FP&A, or cost accounting.

• Strong experience in:

  • Product Costing
  • Standard Costing
  • Manufacturing Variance Analysis
  • Inventory Costing
  • Purchase Price Variance (PPV) Analysis
  • Productivity and Cost Savings Validation

• Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing organizations is highly preferred.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, BOMs, routings, labor and overhead allocations.

• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, HFM/EPM, or equivalent ERP systems.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power Query, and financial analytics.

• Experience with Power BI or other visualization platforms is an advantage.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across finance and operations.

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