Finance Business Partner - Oral Health Care

Overview

The Finance Business Partner supports the Oral Health category and Business development team in delivering the Business Expansion Plan, providing strategic financial insight, managing performance metrics, and partnering across departments to drive growth and efficiency.

What you'll do

• Act as the primary finance partner to the Oral Health Category.
• Drive delivery of revenue, gross margin, operating profit, and cash flow targets.
• Develop and challenge category strategies to unlock accelerated growth.
• Lead Annual Business Planning (ABP), Forecasts, Long Range Plans (LRP), and Monthly Performance Reviews (MPR).
• Provide actionable insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Influence category investment decisions through robust financial analysis and scenario planning.
• Challenge commercial assumptions and ensure financial rigor behind strategic initiatives.
• Partner with Marketing teams on innovation, brand building, media investments, and portfolio prioritization.
• Lead pricing, mix, promotion, and portfolio optimization initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to enhance gross margin and category profitability.
• Evaluate investment effectiveness and return on marketing spend.
• Lead financial assessment of acquisition, licensing, partnership, and business development opportunities.
• Build acquisition business cases including valuation, synergy assessment, and investment thesis.
• Conduct financial due diligence in partnership with Strategy, Legal, Tax, and Corporate Development teams.
• Evaluate white-space entry opportunities and adjacent category expansion.
• Develop financial models covering multiple transaction structures.
• Support integration planning, synergy tracking, and post-acquisition value realization.
• Monitor inorganic growth pipeline and provide recommendations to leadership on prioritization and resource allocation.

What you'll need

• A qualified CA or MBA.
• 8+ years of finance experience, including significant commercial finance business partnering exposure.
• Proven experience managing and influencing category, brand, or business unit P&L performance.
• Strong understanding of Sales, Gross Margin, Pricing, G2N, A&P, Innovation, and Overheads.
• Ability to challenge, influence, and drive decision-making through financial insight.
• Ability to build business cases, evaluate investments, and support strategic decision-making.
• Experience assessing innovation launches, portfolio optimization, and investment prioritization.
• Ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights.
• Experience working in a matrix organization with regional and global stakeholders.
• Experience driving process improvements, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled reporting to improve finance effectiveness.

Nice to have

• Business Acumen & FMCG Industry Knowledge.
• Data Insights and Analytics.
• Influencing, Challenging & Conflict Resolution.
• Innovative Mindset.
• Presenting & Storytelling.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
• Job posting end date: 2026-11-30.