Assistant Manager - Accounts

<span class="jobdescription"><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>External Job Description</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong>Job Purpose</strong></p> <p>To play a pivotal role in driving product category profitability through robust COPA reporting, margin analytics, and business-focused insights.</p> <p>The role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain, and IT, enabling data-driven decisions on product performance, pricing, competition benchmarking, and category strategy.</p> <p>The incumbent will also contribute to strengthening financial accuracy through reconciliation with financial statements and lead automation initiatives to improve reporting efficiency, scalability, and insight generation.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Business Responsibility Areas</strong></p> <p>1.End-to-end ownership of COPA cycle execution including out of cycle adjustment validations</p> <p>2.Preparation and analysis of product category-level gross margins and variance analysis</p> <p>3.Reconciliation of product-level net margins with Divisional / Regional P&amp;L and Standalone P&amp;L</p> <p>4.Detailed presentations for focus categories and presenting insights to Group Brand Managers in Marketing</p> <p>5.Preparation of CFO MIS on product performance, trends and key drivers</p> <p>6.Competition benchmarking across key product categories to identify gaps and opportunities</p> <p>7.Drive automation initiatives to eliminate manual intervention in COPA P&amp;L preparation</p> <p>8.Team supervision and capability building to ensure accuracy and timely delivery</p></div></div></div> </span>