Finance Manager

About the role

The Finance Manager will be responsible for overseeing the R&D Function day-to-day financial operations, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. The role will partner closely with the R&D leaders to provide actionable financial insights, improve financial discipline, and support strategic decision-making.

What you'll do

• Own the annual planning cycle for the function end to end, including the calendar, templates, cost definitions
• Build the scenario and sensitivity models that inform investment, headcount, and procurement decisions, and frame the trade-offs for the leaders who decide
• Challenge the business assumptions behind functional plans with R&D and Product leaders, and quantify the financial consequences of the alternatives
• Judge which variances matter, decide how they are investigated, and take the resulting recommendations to functional leadership
• Set the reporting standards, cost definitions, and analytical tooling that the function's recurring reporting and analysis are produced within

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Reporting
• Excel
• FP&A
• Financial reporting
• Accounting
• Financial analysis
• B.Com or BBA or Chartered Accountant or CFA or MBA

Good to have

• Power BI
• Tableau
• Costing
• ERP
• Data privacy
• Public relations