Finance Planner

Job Summary

This role is for a Finance Planner - Sales Performance & Planning, responsible for driving financial performance visibility, enabling strategic decision-making through analytics, and supporting business units with forecasting, reporting, and process optimization.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for preparing monthly sales reports and comprehensive MIS statements, including P&L, operating expense (OE) analysis, and variance analysis, while discussing key variances with stakeholders for accurate interpretation.
• You will be responsible for building and maintaining a robust sales and throughput database to support financial performance tracking and business insights generation.
• You will be responsible for creating impactful presentations for monthly and business review meetings, providing detailed analysis of performance drivers to aid strategic decision-making.
• You will be responsible for conducting analytical reviews of sales under both IGAAP and IFRS frameworks, including top-product performance, QoQ variance analysis, and collaboration with front-end teams for business rationale.
• You will be responsible for consolidating and analyzing sales data to support variance and growth analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams (CFTs) during annual budget preparation.
• You will be responsible for preparing monthly Latest Estimates (LE) by integrating real-time market and business developments to improve forecasting accuracy and agility.
• You will be responsible for performing regular peer benchmarking—both internal and external—to assess performance in the context of competitors and industry trends.
• You will be responsible for executing finance automation and simplification projects within the business unit, while also delivering ad hoc analytics to support targeted profit initiatives.

Educational qualification: Bachelors' degree in Finance, Accounting, economics, or a related field is mandatory. Postgraduate in Finance, Business Administration or a related field is preferred.

Professional certifications such as Cost and Management Accountants (CMA), Certified Public Accountants (CPA), or Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) or equivalent is preferred.

Minimum work experience:

3+ years of experience

 Skills & attributes &Critical exposures

Functional Skills

• Regulatory Compliance
• Regulatory Filings
• Technical Documentation
• Change Control
• Laboratory Information
• Risk Management
• Chromatography

Resident Skills

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Regulatory Compliance

•  Database Management

• Digital Literacy

Behavioural Skills

• Analytical Precision – Translates complex sales data into clear, actionable insights that enable accurate forecasting and agile business decisions.
• Cross-Functional Agility – Collaborates seamlessly with CFTs to integrate real-time trends, streamline reporting, and support strategic reviews.
• Improvement Orientation – Drives performance visibility, peer benchmarking, and automation to unlock efficiency and support profitable growth.

Critical exposures

•  Exposure to 1 complete cycle of financial forecasting, and budgeting exercise for the organization is preferred

•  Experience in financial analysis, including variance analysis, trend analysis and scenario analysis is desired

•  Experience in preparing MIS, Sales reporting, financial performance and key financial metrics is desired

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Financial Planning and Analysis or Controlling or Accounting functions is preferred

Benefits Offered

At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.

The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website at https://careers.drreddys.com/#!/