Cipla
Cipla | Sr. Team Member - FP&A (Manufacturing and Quality)
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- Engage with all manufacturing units (Cipla India + India Subsidiaries) to report on operating expenses variance across units (30+ units – formulation & API) and provide necessary inputs for top management reviews.
- Reporting on Opex Variance for Manufacturing (~Rs. 600 cr), Admin (~Rs. 120 cr) on monthly basis for India based Mfg units.
- Prepare LE in consultation with Site Finance Heads to give insights about future costs to Management on quarterly basis.
- Prepare Profitability analysis (Site level, Unit Level, dosage level).
- Prepare Review deck for TLT & other leadership forums to discuss overall performance including opex, production, CI initiatives, etc.
- Prepare the annual budget for the manufacturing units and review of expenses.
- Drive annual budgeting exercise for operating expenses across plants.
- Partner with site finance team to prepare and consolidate annual Opex Budget for Manufacturing, Admin at Cost center (dept) & expense level in line with production plan, site operations schedule and corporate guidance.
- Evaluate, Approve & recommend Purchase Request approvals as per DOA to keep control & governance on budget for all central functions.
- Identify and support cost reduction initiatives across manufacturing to optimize the overall cost.
- Drive cost reduction activities across the manufacturing section by monitoring cost reduction KPIs, and through internal and external benchmarking.
- Review the Cost saving ideas and support to approve the same.
- Analyse the OEE reports on monthly basis unit wise dosage wise and give insights on improvement levers.
- Support Operational Excellence teams in various projects from time to time and help in driving closure of projects.
- Partner in Several Strategic, cost and other initiatives.
- Partner to Mfg team in several strategic projects including network optimization, automation, etc.
- Report on Cost per 1000 units/per Ton and identify reasons for increase or decrease.
- Identify products for in sourcing to ensure better capacity utilisation and overhead allocation.
- Review impact of product transfer between own manufacturing units.
- Drive automation of financial reports to reduce reporting time and improve business velocity.
- Ensure implementation and compliance with HR policies and procedures.
- Engage in soft skill development initiative based on the individual need.
- Leading the Project velocity throughput and Opex ideas leading the systematic savings.
- Provide end to end finance support across manufacturing units by driving the overall budgeting and review processes, monitoring department wise spend, identifying deviations and providing cost reduction recommendations, partner in various strategic projects to enable adherence to opex budget and drive continuous improvement.
- Benchmarking of Expenses between Locations, identifying the cost drivers and working on optimisation of costs.
Requirements
- Experience in manufacturing operations is preferred.
About the company
Cipla Limited
Dr K.A. Hamied set up Cipla in 1935 with the goal of making medicines affordable and available to everyone who needed them. Based in Mumbai, with its registered office at Cipla House in Lower Parel, the company makes a broad range of generic medicines in many dosage forms, from tablets to inhalers, and has a long record in HIV/AIDS treatment. India, South Africa and the US are its key markets. Cipla's equity shares are listed on the BSE and the National Stock Exchange, and its global depository receipts on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Its plants in India include the Patalganga factory in Maharashtra, opened in 1984.
Cipla looks mainly for qualified Chartered Accountants for its finance teams in Mumbai (the Lower Parel head office and Vikhroli) and Bengaluru, though some roles accept an MBA (Finance) instead. The work covers plant-level factory finance and accounting, cluster finance management, FP&A (including planning for the manufacturing and quality functions) and group consolidation. CIMA, ACCA, CPA or a master's degree in finance or accounting are also accepted for some roles, and semi-qualified CAs are considered for others.
