Senior Analyst, Business Finance (Costing)

The Role: Business Finance Senior Analyst

The Business Finance Senior Analyst will serves as a key finance partner supporting the Hyderabad Manufacturing Plant.

The role is responsible for delivering accurate product costing, manufacturing cost analysis, and cost performance insights to support operational and strategic decision-making.

Working closely with plant finance, operations, procurement, and supply chain stakeholders, you will ensure costing accuracy, drive cost transparency, validate productivity and cost-saving initiatives, and provide actionable financial insights.

You will also contribute to process standardization, continuous improvement, and digital transformation initiatives to enhance costing efficiency and business performance.

Product Costing & Manufacturing Cost Management


* Lead end-to-end product costing activities across GSC manufacturing plants in India, ensuring accurate and timely cost reporting.


* Maintain and validate standard costs, including annual cost roll-ups and periodic updates to ensure costing accuracy.


* Analyze manufacturing costs, including direct materials, labor, overhead, freight, and inventory-related costs.


* Partner with plant operations, procurement, industrialization, and supply chain teams to identify cost drivers and improvement opportunities.


* Monitor and analyze Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Bill of Materials (BOM), routings, and manufacturing variances to ensure costing integrity.


* Ensure accurate costing structure for new product introductions, product transfers, and engineering changes.


* Validate cost savings initiatives, productivity projects, localization efforts, and other manufacturing improvement programs.

Financial Analysis & Business Performance


* Deliver insightful analysis of manufacturing performance through cost, productivity, and profitability reporting.


* Perform variance analysis between actual results, standard costs, forecasts, and budgets, identifying key business drivers and risks.


* Analyze:



* Product cost performance


* Material cost evolution


* Direct labor productivity


* Purchase productivity


* Price, Volume, Mix, and FX impacts


* Freight and logistics costs


* Inventory-related performance indicators

Translate financial results into actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders.

Planning, Forecasting & Reporting


* Support monthly closing activities related to costing and manufacturing performance.


* Prepare and maintain manufacturing cost forecasts, budgets, and financial outlooks.


* Provide regular reporting and analysis to Finance Business Partners, Plant Leadership Teams, and GSC stakeholders.


* Support Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) through meaningful financial insights and performance narratives.

Business Partnering


* Act as the trusted finance partner for GSC manufacturing operations.
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