[02 / 10 / 2025] Financial Analyst

Job Context : To lead the global consolidation, governance, and performance tracking of capital expenditure across Birla Carbon’s operations, ensuring strategic alignment, financial discipline, and realization of investment benefits. Support annual budgeting and monthly forecasting and reporting processes. Additionally, the role acts as an internal financial controller, responsible for driving compliance with corporate finance policies, coordinating quarterly control assessments, reporting non-compliance issues, and strengthening the overall financial control environment.

Birla Carbon operates across multiple geographies with a diverse manufacturing footprint, making capital investment planning and control a critical function. The Global Capex analyst plays a central role in aligning capital expenditure with strategic priorities, ensuring financial discipline, and supporting the Director of Capital Management in evaluating technical feasibility and investment decisions. The role also contributes to the broader financial planning cycle, including annual budgeting and monthly forecasting, and acts as a key internal controller to uphold financial governance across the organization.

This position requires close coordination with plant finance teams, site controllers, project managers, and corporate leadership to consolidate global Capex plans, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with internal policies and external standards. The role demands a strong understanding of both financial and operational dynamics, as well as the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

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Key Challenges

Global Coordination & Consolidation : Managing inputs from multiple regions and business units with varying timelines, priorities, and systems to produce a unified and accurate global Capex view.

Strategic Prioritization : Balancing competing investment needs while ensuring alignment with long-term business strategy and financial targets.

Benefit Realization : Tracking and validating whether approved projects deliver the expected cost savings, productivity improvements, or strategic outcomes.

Policy Compliance & Controls : Ensuring consistent adherence to Birla Carbon’s finance policies across all sites, including timely reporting of non-compliance and follow-up on corrective actions.

Quarterly Control Questionnaire Management : Coordinating with site controllers to gather, validate, and report responses, while maintaining the integrity of the internal control framework.

System & Process Standardization : Driving improvements in Capex reporting tools and processes across geographies to enhance transparency, efficiency, and control.

KRA

25%

1. Capex Strategic Planning & Investment Governance

• Lead global Capex planning and consolidation across all plants and business units.
• Support the Director of Capital Management in technical feasibility reviews and investment prioritization.
• Review and challenge business cases to ensure strategic alignment, financial robustness, and ROI clarity.
• Facilitate corporate-level discussions on Capex prioritization and resource allocation.

10%

1. Capex Performance Monitoring & Benefit Realization

10%

1. Controls, Systems & Stakeholder Engagement

15%

1. Internal Financial Controls & Policy Compliance

10%

1. Planning & Budgeting

10%

1. Monthly / Quarterly / BRC reporting

20%

1. Ad hoc projects and analysis

Related Education & Experience

Experienced CA with Good knowledge of systems like SAP, FCCS and SAC, etc

CA with 4-5 years of experience