Goodyear India | Finance Business Partner. Aurangabad

Key responsibility areas

• You will partner with the Plant Director and key plant leadership team to develop and execute cost optimization initiatives, achieve scorecard KPI targets, and ensure strong recovery plans are in place.
• You will drive the plant-wide AOP and forecasting process, identify key cost drivers, prepare cost budgets, lead cost-saving initiatives, and ensure delivery of savings targets.
• You will also provide financial support to business leaders on investment projects and develop financial simulations to enable effective, data-driven decision-making.
• You will partner with plant leadership to provide financial insights, identify cost-saving opportunities, and drive performance against AOP and forecasts.
• You will analyze key variances and recommend actions to improve financial performance.
• You will manage month-end closing, performance reviews, and timely reporting in Hyperion.
• You will collaborate with Controlling and Operations to ensure accurate financial data and reporting.
• You will review standard costs, BOM accuracy, routing, and key variances to identify cost-reduction opportunities.
• You will present monthly performance and variance analysis to plant leadership.
• You will support the AOP and forecasting process by collating, validating, and delivering accurate financial inputs within timelines.
• You will work closely with regional finance to provide transparent, data-driven financial insights.
• You will ensure adherence to financial processes, systems, and Goodyear policies.

Experience & education

• You are a Chartered Accountant/ MBA/ ICWA with 10–12 years of experience in a similar role within a manufacturing setup.
• You bring strong cross-functional experience, working with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Procurement teams to manage budgets and understand different business and operating models.
• You have strong financial analysis skills, with the ability to assess the business impact of new operating models and capital investments.
• You possess solid Finance functional expertise, particularly in costing, plant accounting, and business FP&A.
• Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Frank Seiberling founded Goodyear in Akron, Ohio, in 1898, and the company is still headquartered there; its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol GT. Goodyear designs and makes tyres for passenger cars, SUVs, commercial trucks and buses, aircraft and motorsport, and it took over Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in 2021. Its operations in India began in 1922. The Indian listed company, Goodyear India Limited, is traded on the NSE and BSE and has its corporate office in Gurugram. Goodyear runs tyre plants in India at Ballabgarh in Haryana and at Aurangabad in Maharashtra. It supplies tyres to car makers and tractor manufacturers as well as to car owners and fleet operators, and it has a Goodyear Autocare service network.

Goodyear's finance openings in India are senior finance business partner roles. In Gurugram, a role for the consumer business unit asks for a Chartered Accountant with six to twelve years in business finance, FP&A or finance business partnering. In Aurangabad, a business partner role needs a Chartered Accountant, MBA or ICWA (cost accountant) with ten to twelve years in a similar position within a manufacturing setting.

• Industry: Tyre manufacturing: tyres for passenger cars, SUVs, trucks and buses, farm tractors, aircraft and motorsport
• Headquarters: Akron, Ohio, United States (The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, listed on Nasdaq as GT)
• In India: Goodyear India Limited (listed on the NSE and BSE, corporate office in Gurugram, tyre plant at Ballabgarh, Haryana) and a Goodyear tyre plant at Aurangabad, Maharashtra; in India since 1922