Job Overview
Job Description
Travel Required?: No Travel
Posting Start Date: 30/04/2026
Hybrid
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.
Source: Company Career page