SH Business Analyst (Chartered Accountant)

Overview

To lead the analysis, consolidation, and governance of the Global Pulp Business performance for the Aditya Birla Group, ensuring absolute data integrity and reliability, while acting as a strategic partner to senior leadership by providing timely, insight-driven analyses, decision-ready dashboards, and high-impact presentations to support enterprise-level decision-making.

Driving timely and consistent data alignment across geographically dispersed units. Maintaining single-source-of-truth data accuracy in a complex, multi-unit environment. Navigating cross-border coordination, including time-zone differences and language diversity across Canada, Sweden, and India. Ensuring data remains current, relevant, and decision-oriented amid dynamic business priorities.

Key Result Areas (KRAs)

• Performance Management & Value Enhancement of Pulp Units
• Lead end-to-end performance analysis of Pulp Units to drive sustainable improvement in operational and financial outcomes.
• Monitor and challenge actual performance vs. plan/budget, identifying deviations, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Institutionalize benchmarking across pulp operations, costs, and efficiencies to identify gaps and drive continuous improvement.
• Compare KPIs against global and domestic pulp peers to assess competitiveness and improvement levers.
• Proactively highlight structural and cyclical challenges impacting performance and support leadership with fact-based recommendations.
• Management Reporting, Insights & Executive Decision Support
• Act as the single point of consolidation and insight generation for monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc management reporting.
• Analyze and consolidate key MIS reports including:
• Flash Performance
• Monthly Business Report
• Forex, Borrowing & Surplus Statements
• Oil Hedging Reports
• Quarterly BRC packs
• Prepare and present quarterly performance decks for the Business Review Council (BRC).
• Conduct deep-dive performance reviews of Pulp Units for Ex-Com discussions, focusing on risks, opportunities, and forward actions.
• Enable leadership decisions through high-impact presentations, dashboards, and analytical narratives.
• Further ensure statutory compliance from corporate governance standpoint.
• Capital Allocation, Capex Governance & Strategic Investments
• Review, challenge, and validate Capex proposals, ensuring alignment with business strategy, returns, and risk appetite.
• Support preparation and presentation of Capex proposals for Capex BRC, including financial justification and sensitivity analysis.
• Partner with senior management in prioritization of capital allocation across growth, efficiency, and sustainability initiatives.
• Planning, Budgeting & Forward-Looking Business Steering
• Play key role in Annual Pre-P&B and Planning & Budgeting cycles across Pulp Units.
• Drive consolidation and review of:
• Production & volume plans
• Revenue & cost structures
• Ratios, opex, and capex assumptions
• Coordinate with senior leadership to ensure coherent, consistent, and decision-ready data for review forums.
• Challenge assumptions to ensure robust, realistic, and strategy-aligned budgets.
• Controls, Governance & Digital Enablement
• Review and monitor financial and operational control frameworks across units.
• Identify control gaps, non-compliances, and process risks, and actively support units in strengthening governance.
• Automation and digitization of MIS and control reports through:
• SAP
• Hyperion
• Power BI dashboards
• Enable a single source of truth and reduce manual intervention in reporting.
• Market Intelligence, Pricing & Transfer Pricing Support
• Track global pulp prices, demand–supply dynamics, and industry trends.
• Support transfer pricing assessments and audits through analysis of internal and external pricing agreements.
• Provide insights on market movements and competitor performance to support strategic positioning.
• Treasury, Fund Planning & Banking Support
• Support Pulp Units in fund-raising, fund planning, and liquidity management.
• Engage with banks for:
• Fresh credit limits
• Renewal of existing facilities
• Clarifications and financial justifications
• Conduct cash flow analysis and forward cash planning to anticipate funding requirements and optimize deployment of surplus funds.
• Strategic Initiatives, Growth & Portfolio Review
• Actively support strategic initiatives across the Pulp Business, including:
• Organic expansion
• Inorganic opportunities
• Portfolio and asset performance review
• Provide analytical support, scenario evaluation, and performance tracking for strategic decisions.