Business Finance Assistant Manager

Job Mission:

Business Finance function needs to be agile and dynamic, proactive business partnering with the aim to influence strategic decision where possible. We will pivot towards a more predictive and analytical future as opposed to descriptive analysis.

We shall no longer just report the news but help create the news. Connect the internal and external insights; proactively drive and shape the direction of the business.

Business Partnership:

• Transformational: The position shall have the attributes to challenge the status quo, be creative and innovative. Processes or reports in the past may be challenged and propose improvements for the better
• Proactive: finance is a gatekeeper of cross departments data and information. This privilege enables us to analyses data independently without bias and provide for actionable insights to support decision making
• Agile: Work independently and be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity. Be curious to find out what we don’t know, a proactive and continuous learner. The pace of the business is moving fast and equally our responsiveness to support
• Entrepreneur, motivated and driven: mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”
• Relationships-focused: Be collaborative and team player with various teams including finance, business and other corporate functions at local, regional and global.
• Data governance and data mining: Leading data migration across all division and departments, drive single source of truth on data integration

Key Responsibilities:

Corporate Function

• Responsible for consolidation and reporting at entity level, by closely day-to-day connection with division teams and corporate cross functional teams.
• Gatekeeper for entity level financial reporting to make sure accurate and timely reporting to fulfill the requirements from regional and global.
• Gatekeeper and key contact point of window from Business Finance Team to make sure accurate and timely data support to cross function for business support needs on needed basis.
• Responsible for continuous process improvement to improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.
• Curiosity and will to drive proactive analysis. Comfortable to work with large volumes of data and information, yet able to extract key insights. Highlight risks and opportunities.
• Assert influence over stakeholders and be a team player.
• Lobby to regional and global teams for our local team requests and requirements.

Contribute to strategic business decisions

• Derive business scenarios using predictive analysis to come up with possible actions and guide stakeholders towards a solution.
• Streamline process from end to end to make sure financial healthy .
• Support target setting and performance management and drive forecast accuracy.
• Drive sustainability initiatives and assess financial and non-financial impact.
• Build data migration pipeline and drive single source of truth.

Drive business performance management

• Key contributor to develop automated reports to support business decision making and enhance work efficiency.
• Develop and maintain periodically dashboard for performance tracking on different granularity to support business diagnosis in a timely and accurate manner.
• Profitability and productivity scope 360. The focus is qualitative profitability growth while never compromising on our brand equity.
• Oversee actual financial reporting and budget variance analysis.
• Drive tata integrity in TVT and process optimization as key member of ESG council. Target setting and performance management of decarbonization initiatives to make sure single source of truth.
• Actively engage in all corporate projects to provide financial solution and ROI analysis.
• Active in identifying and supporting improvements in internal controls and business process improvements.

Drive efficient planning/budgeting

• Participate into monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budget and mid-term planning cycles. Set clear guidelines upfront and coordinating the end-to-end process with budget owners.
• Contribute to development of Business Review and Strategic Alignment Meetings. Support and present to management.
• Prepare local templates to support the budget planning at the relevant level of detail. Different layout to deep dive expense by spending nature by purpose code by projects, bridge the requirement between SCOA and local practice, based on latest global guidance.
• Streamline forecast efficiently and balance speed with accuracy. Work closely with business partners to develop a “lighter” operating budgeting process to minimize rework.

Project basis

• Prepare financial simulations for new projects and challenge business team assumptions. Obtain management approvals within a matrix organization.
• Support sustainability initiatives and build the reporting of relevant information or KPIs.
• Identify opportunities and assess feasibility to migrate static reports into Power BI environment.

What you can bring to the te

Person Specifications:

Academic / Professional Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration with major in Finance, Accounting, Management Systems, or Economics, or Quantitative Finance.
• Financial or management accounting professional qualification are preferred.

Work Experience

• Above 5 years working experience in Business Finance or Financial Planning Analysis area.
• Consumer goods or retail industry are preferred.
• Management trainee or accounting or audit firm are preferred.

Required Competencies

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Agile, commercial curiosity and business acumen.
• Preferred knowledge (TM1, Power BI, AX, sustainability reporting).
• Strong Excel skills required.
• Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models.
• Strong interpreter of data.
• Entrepreneur, motivated and driven – mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”.
• Innovative and challenge the status quo.

Key Interactions:

• Partner with business stakeholders from all functions and divisions.
• Lobby and liaise our local requests with regional and global teams.
• Assert influence and coordination within our finance team members.