Deputy General Manager - Finance - Rail & Inland Terminals

About the Role

The Deputy General Manager – Finance for Rail & Inland Terminals, based in Gurugram, reports to the Finance department and provides financial leadership across terminal operations. Key responsibilities include formulating strategic priorities, identifying high‑impact volume and cost drivers, estimating financial impact, and defining owners, timelines, KPIs, and milestones while maintaining dashboards with weekly tracking and monthly reviews. The role drives cost‑saving initiatives by analysing major expense lines, benchmarking across terminals and vendors, renegotiating contracts, improving processes and utilization, and producing detailed asset‑utilisation and profitability reports. Additional duties encompass ECL avoidance and recovery, monitoring capital‑expenditure returns, preparing the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, month‑end review decks, board presentations, internal audits, and addressing revenue leakage. The candidate must hold a Chartered Accountant qualification with relevant industry and pricing experience. • Align leadership priorities with business heads to set growth, cost, and efficiency goals. • Identify high‑impact volume and cost drivers and estimate associated financial impact. • Define owners, timelines, KPIs, and milestones; track progress weekly and review monthly. • Analyze top expense items (transportation, terminal, fuel, handling, lease, repairs) and benchmark across terminals, vendors, and units. • Initiate vendor renegotiations, process improvements, and utilization enhancements to achieve cost savings. • Create and maintain dashboards for leadership updates on initiatives and performance. • Produce regular reports: customer‑wise margin, rake days lost, container detention, circuit profitability, and asset utilization. • Collect asset data, calculate utilization %, turnaround time, and productivity; identify under‑utilized assets and provide actionable insights. • Map and standardize cost heads across terminals, identify variances, and drive initiatives to meet standard cost ranges. • Analyze three‑month ECL reports, set collection targets, monitor overdue accounts, and implement weekly exception reporting. • Reduce new ECL creation by stopping services to highly overdue customers. • Monitor and track returns from all capex investments, delivering actionable insights. • Develop the Annual Operating Plan and rolling forecasts. • Prepare month‑review decks and board meeting presentations. • Conduct internal audits and address revenue leakage.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸dashboard creation
• ▸cost analysis
• ▸vendor renegotiation
• ▸asset utilization
• ▸ecl management
• ▸forecast planning

Work Environment

Office Full-Time