Associate Team Lead - Supply Chain Finance

Associate Team Lead,Supply Chain Finance

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number #172810 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Title: Associate Team Lead 

 

 

 

 

 

Brief introduction - Role Summary/Purpose: 

 

 

• In today’s multifaceted technology environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the Finance team at Colgate!. 

• Our Finance and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape.

• The Supply Chain Finance ATL is responsible for overseeing the SCF Team and tasks in Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting  and Cost & Inventory processes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to-

 

• Service & Internal Controls Assurance 

• Monitor on day-to-day basis to ensure accurate and on-time service delivery by team following SLAs and process governance tools

• Regularly review SOX/Internal controls compliances in team with proper documentation and promptly remediate any discrepancy observed

• Be the first line of contact for team and business in resolution of escalated queries / issues with a sense of urgency and ensure no repeats.  Include assessing the issues needing IT help and raising appropriate Incident requests with preliminary root cause analysis. 

• Proactively plan capacity & activity with team and relevant stakeholders for major milestone service deliveries like Month-end/Year-end closing, Reporting, Quarterly costing, etc

• Work with Team Lead to assess the ad hoc service requests from business and guide teams for action

• Working with a team to ensure SOBPs are up-to-date and incorporate any changes required in a timely manner.  Keeping Team Lead informed of and consult for any major changes.

• Develop analysis and insights from business data to support business leaders make informed decisions

• Ensure regular engagement with stakeholders in a proactive manner and use these connects to issue resolve, build rapport, learning and development of team

 

• Projects & Continuously Improvements

  • Bring up any process improvement ideas from the team with assessment of impact on process effectiveness and efficiency and guide the team in implementation. 

  • Support global projects / CPIs implementation / efficiency delivery measures

 

• People Enablement

• Onboarding new members in the team and assessing effectiveness of learning and scale up from early days for successful service delivery.

• Assign and Assess performance (through regular check-ins) KPI's, Individual Objectives and plan for successions in the team

• Facilitate ongoing functional learning in team on regular basis based on feedback from business or own assessment of the needs/gaps

• Developing back-up among resources within team

• Provide on-going coaching and feedback to team through regular check-ins

• Proactively support development and implementation of IDP action items for the team  for talent development 

• Learn about and support coaching culture in team

• Use the recognition tools and forums for timely recognition of good work in team and peers

• Cross functional stakeholders:  Non-Finance (CS&L, Production, Procurement) and Finance teams in Colgate entities and other centers 

• External and Internal Auditors

 

 

 

 

 

Required  Qualifications:

 

• CMA (Intermediate  or Final), Any other finance graduate

• 7-10 years of experience in Costing & Fixed Assets

• Proficient in SAP - FI/CO/PA/MM modules, 

• Advanced Excel & Google Sheets

• Prior experience in managing team members directly

• Prior experience in working with multiple teams including business engagement across virtual platforms

• Deep experience in Costing, Inventory, Fixed Assets and Lease Accounting processes

• Comfortable with managing and analyzing large data and Developing visualization in Slides (or other tools) and

• Well versed with Domo,Sigma,Tableau,Scripting, Google Suites, Snowflake and BI Reporting platforms(preferred)

 

 

 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Qualified CMA (from ICMAI India)

• Working in an FMCG Manufacturing Plant in SAP Setup

• Soft skills are needed for this role: Leadership; collaboration; strong communication; data -driven, etc.

• Preferred Qualifications can be assessed based on interviews

 

Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives  to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.

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Experience Level

Mid Level