Deputy General Manager - Finance - Rail & Inland Terminals - Ahmedabad
Key Responsibilities :
| Responsibilities | Description |
| Formulate and Drive Must Win Battles | - Understand Leadership Priorities by meeting business heads and align on strategic goals (growth, cost, efficiency). |
| - Identify high-impact areas such as volume and cost drivers. | |
| - Estimate financial impact (savings/incremental revenue). | |
| - Defining owners, timelines, KPIs, milestones. | |
| - Weekly tracking and monthly reviews. | |
| - Create a dashboard for leadership updates. | |
| Identify and drive cost saving initiatives | - Drill into top expense line items (transportation, terminal expenses, fuel, handling, lease, repairs). |
| - Compare terminals, vendors, business units. | |
| - Track variance vs budget, vs prior period, vs productivity norms. | |
| - Identifying initiatives to improve by | |
| Vendor renegotiation | |
| Process improvements | |
| Utilization improvements | |
| - Defining owners, timelines, KPIs, milestones. | |
| - Weekly tracking and monthly reviews. | |
| - Create a dashboard for leadership updates. | |
| Reports: | Asset Utilization Report: |
| Customer wise Margin Report | - Collect data regarding: |
| Rake Days Lost | - Gross Asset available during the period |
| Container Detention Report | - Unavailability due to driver/breakdown |
| Circuitwise Profitability Report | - Idle time |
| Asset utilization Report: | - Trips completed |
| Rake | - Compute key metrics: |
| Container | - Utilization % |
| Trailer | - Turnaround time |
| RST | - Productivity per asset |
| - Identify underutilized assets | |
| - Listing the reasons (maintenance, detention, low demand) | |
| - Sharing actionable insights and driving the utilization | |
| - Publish weekly & monthly report | |
| Standardisation of cost across terminals | - Map all cost heads across terminals. |
| - Identify variations. | |
| - Work with BU Heads/ Ops to establish standard cost range wherever possible. | |
| - Identifying initiatives and driving them to bring the cost within standard range. | |
| - Sharing dashboard highlighting the impact of cost above standards. | |
| Avoiding ECL and driving ECL recovery | - Analyse the probable 3-month ECL report shared by RO |
| - Define collection targets | |
| - Customer-wise expected recovery. | |
| - Monitor movements to 90+/180+ days. | |
| - Daily Recovery monitoring | |
| - Exception reporting every week. | |
| - Reduce new ECL creation | |
| - Stop service for highly overdue customers | |
| Monitor and Track returns from all capex investments including insights to be acted upon. | |
| Annual Operating Plan | |
| Rolling Forecast | |
| Month Review Decks | |
| Board Meetings | |
| Internal Audit | |
| Revenue Leakage |
- Manage P&L, balance sheet, working capital, and overall financial reporting and control processes.
- Develop financial business plans and forecasts, ensuring alignment with group and regional policies.
- Implement and maintain finance and accounting practices as per regulatory and accounting standards.
- Develop systems to provide critical financial insights and make strategic recommendations to management.
- Ensure operational policies and procedures are efficient, compliant, and within budgetary allocations.
- Develop liquidity management strategies, working closely with the CFO and Treasurer.
- Provide timely financial analysis and reports to assist the Regional HO and Board in decision-making.
- Offer insurance, legal, and taxation advice to management, consulting with relevant experts.
- Improve the budgeting process by educating departments on financial implications.
- Provide financial leadership and strategic input on key business decisions.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, with a preference for a Master's degree.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in finance, with a strong background in financial management and analysis.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing financial strategies and plans.
- Excellent knowledge of accounting principles, financial regulations, and compliance standards.
- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a finance team.
- Proficiency in using financial software and tools for reporting and analysis.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders.
- Analytical mindset with a focus on performance management and forecasting.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- A proactive and solution-oriented approach to financial risk management.
DHL
APM Terminals
Egis Group
Maersk