Assistant Manager - Finance

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Job Description:

The Assistant Manager - Finance will play a critical role in supporting the EMEA Regional Finance team by coordinating, validating, and enriching financial data across markets.
The role acts as a key interface between country finance teams, regional stakeholders, and global partners to ensure high-quality inputs for planning, performance management, cashflow, and external reporting. A strong understanding of Financial Controlling, data validation and how Financial Planning accuracy impacts our financials is required.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Sales Data Validation & Performance Analytics
• Validate monthly and quarterly sales actuals across EMEA markets, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across financial systems.
• Perform analytical reviews of sales trends, variances, and outliers to identify data integrity issues or inconsistencies.
• Support regional performance reviews by providing validated datasets and analytical insights. Sales Planning & IBP System Validation
• Validate sales planning and IBP submissions to ensure alignment between country inputs, regional assumptions, and system outputs.
• Perform system checks across planning tools to ensure correct application of volumes, pricing, and growth drivers.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues impacting regional planning views. PVM Data Quality & Enrichment
• Perform Price-Volume-Mix (PVM) validation and enrichment, ensuring drivers are correctly calculated, classified, and consistently applied.
• Review PVM outputs for logical accuracy and alignment with sales performance narratives. EMEA Financial Planning Validation (Sales, HC, OPEX)
• Validate regional financial planning data covering Sales, Headcount, and OPEX across planning and reporting systems.
• Perform cross-checks between country submissions, regional consolidations, and system-generated outputs.
• Highlight data inconsistencies, structural issues, or deviations from regional planning assumptions. Gross Profit (GP) & Margin Validation
• Validate GP calculations and drivers, including volumes, Intercompany Prices (ICPs), and Manufacturing Cost Prices (MCPs).
• Perform system-level checks to ensure GP flows correctly from source systems into regional reporting. •
• Support resolution of GP variances through analytical root-cause assessment. BVA / Latest Thinking Validation
• Review Business Variance Analysis (BVA) and latest thinking inputs for analytical consistency, completeness, and system alignment.
• Ensure variance explanations are supported by validated financial data and system outputs. Ad-hoc Regional Data & System Validation
• Perform ad-hoc financial, operational, and system validations to support EMEA regional leadership requests.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on data quality, system reliability, and reporting standardization across EMEA.
  
  Qualifications:
   
• CA Qualified.
• Minimum of 5-8 years relevant business experience in a sophisticated and international environment is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to influence personnel across functions and levels
• Experience in a business partnership role, with the ability to understand complex business dynamics and navigate matrix organization
• Proven agile attitude and creative mentality, comfortable driving change and innovation. • Demonstrates comfort in times of ambiguity.
• Experience with working in global / virtual environments is a plus.
• Should work independently and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong technical and accounting expertise (US GAAP, ERPs, SigniFI) with strong compliance mentality.
• Project management experience would be a great asset
• Positive, with a can-do attitude, but realistic and not afraid to say no
• Proficiency in English required.
  
  Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies are equal opportunity employers, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Benchmarking, Budgeting, Communication, Consulting, Data Savvy, Econometric Models, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Operational Excellence, Problem Solving