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Senior Manager - Manufacturing Finance

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Aug 24, 2026 15 hr. ago

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Ather Energy Limited Senior Manager - Manufacturing Finance

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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Role:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Manufacturing Finance Partner – Projects <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Location: <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Reporting to:<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Head – Manufacturing Finance<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Team name: Corporate Finance & Accounts<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">About the Team and the Role<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Corporate Finance & Accounts team at Ather is responsible for managing financial operations, driving cost optimization, controlling project expenditures, maintaining regulatory compliance, and delivering strategic decision support across manufacturing units.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">This role is for a Manufacturing Finance Partner – Projects (moving into Plant Finance Business Partner) who will initially own the end-to-end financial agenda for the brownfield expansion at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar—including capex control, statutory approvals, and government incentives—and transition into the Plant Finance Business Partner driving plant costing, AOP, and operational decision support.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Responsibilities<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Manage project capex budgeting, financial feasibility studies, techno-commercial vendor evaluations, and project cash outflows while overseeing rigid Ind AS capitalisation and CWIP tracking.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own site government incentive claims, statutory liaisons with authorities (MIDC/AURIC, DIC, GST, etc.), compliance dashboards, and regulatory tax management.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Oversee plant costing, BOM cost validations, conversion and overhead absorption, and lead the monthly manufacturing close along with cost-reduction roadmaps (VAVE, localisation).</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Act as financial partner to the Plant Head, executing plant AOP, quarterly forecasts, manufacturing finance KPI tracking, and operational make-versus-buy evaluations.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ensure compliance with Ind AS, internal controls, and ICFR testing while managing internal/external audits, working capital, inventory valuations, and asset verification.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Establish plant financial architecture from scratch, including ERP cost centers, approval workflows, SOPs, and production-finance reporting automation.</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience and Qualifications<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Chartered Accountant (CA) or MBA in Finance from a Tier-1 institute</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">6–8 years of post-qualification experience in finance, with a substantial part in a manufacturing plant environment and hands-on exposure to plant set-up or expansion</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Must Have Competencies<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Greenfield or brownfield manufacturing capex budgeting, project accounting, and Ind AS capitalisation control.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Government incentives modelling, scheme claim filing, and quasi-government statutory liaison management.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Comprehensive plant costing, standard costing, conversion cost validation, and variance analysis.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">High proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle) and advanced Excel financial modelling.</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Good to Have Competencies<ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Plant financial architecture establishment, ERP master setup, and GRN-to-payment workflow design.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Production-finance data integration and automated reporting system implementation.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Working knowledge of Ind AS, GST, and statutory provisions related to manufacturing plant operations.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Domain experience in the automotive or 2-wheeler manufacturing sector.</li></ul><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Want to know more?<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">At Ather, we’ve built India’s first intelligent scooter, from scratch. Based on the philosophy of clean design and smart technology, we are transforming the urban commute experience. We are expanding in India, and in the coming years, we look forward to scaling up and launching more products globally. Today, our product offerings include the Ather 450X, 450S, 450 Apex, and Rizta. Beyond the product, we are also setting up an extensive charging network and re-imagining end-to-end ownership experience. To know more, check out our Careers site and our Substack.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Be You, With Us<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Ather story doesn't write itself - our people do. We believe everyone is equal, but not the same. Diversity is our strength, and building an inclusive and equitable workplace begins with acknowledging and embracing our differences. We are an equal opportunity employer, and our team reflects a wide range of identities, experiences, and perspectives - all united by a shared passion to shape the Ather journey.

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