PRIMARY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES    

This position owns the key financial processes of planning, target setting, measuring performance and analyzing variances against plans, provide insights and recommendations to drive business performance towards achieving local business strategies and financial targets.    

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Consolidate financial data, review, and analyze local market performance in Sales per Channel/POS Type Distribution and Product/Brand Profitability Analysis. Identify causes of change against targets, provide insights and recommendations to re-align performance vs set targets.  

• Prepare sales and profitability performance reports (weekly flash/ monthly/quarterly/yearly), Balance Sheets, Cashflow and other reporting package for submission to head office (HQ), regional headquarters (RHQ), JV Partner as required, and country statutory and management reporting. 

• Work with country leadership in preparing the annual plans and latest estimates (LE), rolling sales forecast, advertising and promotional expense, SG&A, balance sheet and cash projection in line with the corporate guideline. 

• Optimize Business Intelligence (BI) and micro strategy to drive analytics and business controlling.  Support systems enhancement projects, e.g. SAP S/4 HANA, BI, PaPM, BPC modules, GSMS 

• Build Excel financial dashboards for business scenarios simulation as required. 

Skills and Competencies 

• A team player with business acumen who thrives in a challenging and fast-moving environment.  

• Self-starter, proactive, motivated, results driven and possess good problem-solving skills.  

• Able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks whilst achieving deadlines with minimal supervision.  

• Able to use information to identify opportunities to drive positive improvement within the business and sensitive to risk management.  

• Able to engage and influence others to deliver outcomes.  

• IT capable and comfortable with advance database/reporting tools to generate management reports and analysis. Good working knowledge of S/4 Hana /BI, ERP financial consolidation systems, Microsoft excel (advance functions).  

• Initiate SAP systems improvement and customization to meet business reporting, analytics and controlling requirements.  

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.  

Qualification 

• 5 years’ experience doing a Finance business partnering and FP&A role in MNC/FMCG/RETAIL industry 

• Degree in Accountancy and Finance; qualified CPA an advantage