BASF Overview: BASF has successfully partnered India’s progress for more than 130 years. As of the end of 2025, BASF had 2,455 employees in India with 8 production sites and 45 offices throughout the country. The Innovation Campus Mumbai and the Coatings Technical Center in Mangalore are both part of BASF’s global technology platform. In 2025, BASF registered sales of approximately €2.2 billion to customers in India. Further information is available on www.basf.com/in
About the Role:
The purpose of the role is to run a set of controls designed to mitigate financial and operational risks and partner with the business-oriented teams on continuous improvement, error management, and promote best practices in relation to the portfolio managed by them.
What's In It for You:
- Be part of building BASF's new Global Hub in India, a flagship transformation initiative
- Work with a globally integrated team spanning Finance and HR functions
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and structured career pathways
- Access to BASF's world-class learning & development programs
- Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative work culture
- Hybrid work model (mix of on-site and remote)
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute daily spot-check controls to ensure invoice postings are 100% accurate.
- Detect and prevent duplicate and erroneous invoice postings before Accounts Payables payment proposal execution.
- Perform timely analysis and reconciliation of Vendor Overdue for the items under the scope of FRC.
- Perform analysis of 4Eye Principle, sample check, and CRM for Direct procurement, Indirect procurement SA, and NA to control changes done in POs by the Procurement team.
- Provide support to the audit lead on the external year-end audit and internal audits.
- Elaborate on a tactic to implement the strategy to help the Business Oriented Teams improve the quality of their postings to mitigate financial risks and act as controllers of the clearing of the vendor open items by the business-oriented teams. In so doing the analyst needs to facilitate the communication and correct flow of information with the Business Oriented Teams and within the FRC team, promoting process improvement initiatives with a focus on controls and operational excellence.
- Collaborate actively in projects of continuous improvement related to the FRC processes.
Execute the credit recovery from our vendors for the portfolio assigned.
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Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced studies in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- 3–5 years of experience in Finance, Audit, or Compliance functions.
- Advanced proficiency in English; Portuguese (intermediate) is an advantage.
- Strong technical knowledge of SAP R/3 or SAP S/4HANA and advanced MS Office tools.
Understanding of Lean Six Sigma methodologies and exposure to Power BI is preferred.
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Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge of SAP FI, MS Office, and process improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma preferred).
