Finance Manager (Consumer Goods, Trading)

• Contribute to build and plan the Strategy

– The position is actively involved in shaping a strategic Vision and goals with management teams.

– Forward thinking, utilize robust and advanced analytics to derive mid/long term business scenarios, predictive and prescriptive analysis to come up with possible actions and guide stakeholders towards a solution

– Monitors external environment such as macro factors, competitors’ movements, assess the impact to our business (short term, mid/long term) and recommend appropriate course of strategic actions where applicable

• Drive business performance management

– The position provides value-added financial/predictive analyses, modelling, advisory and insights into business & functional performance and, whether at regional, divisional, or local level to influence management decision making

– Profitability and productivity scope 360 – by customer/by area, by division, cost center and consolidated. By channel of distribution / point of sale and product category. The focus is qualitative profitability growth while never compromising on our brand equity

Collaborates with Divisions, budget owners and coordinate with Trade Partner and Regional Finance teams on developing analytical KPIs and automated reports to support business decision making and enhance work efficiency. Ensure adopting regional developed reports and templates where applicable, and focus local templates/analysis on value adding to business, prescriptive with insights and proposed actions

– Leads the establishment of regular cadence with business partners, drive the monthly division performance meeting for monthly actual vs budget variance analysis, sales and expense forecast updates as well as improvements to operating expense efficiency and forecasting. Recommends appropriate course of action when results differ from plan

– Leads inventory management through reviews with commercial teams, sales forecast, follow up on Stock Obsolescence and write offs

– Understands, makes sense and provides recommendations based on the interdependencies & links between different functions

Drives efficient tracking, planning/budgeting

– Leads the process and development of Monthly/quarterly tracking, forecasts, Budgets, Latest Estimates and 2-year plan and MTP where applicable

– Contributes to the development of Annual Business Review and Strategic Alignment Meetings

– Supports in streamlining planning and forecast processes:

▪ Proactively provides feedbacks on the design of planning Systems, software, and tools: Our financial systems and software are designed to integrate historical and predictive financial information and reduce time spent on manual data manipulation

▪ Forecasts efficiently and effectively, i.e. forecasting process balances speed with accuracy, work closely with business partners to develop a “lighter” operating budgeting process to minimize reworks

• Provides ad hoc financial analysis and presentation as required by senior management

– Builds complex Business Cases with multiple scenario analysis and modeling to support decision making. Provides recommendations.

– Co creates capital expenditure request with business and budget owners and provide its expertise on the subject, ensure financial and qualitative KPIs are met, carry out post-mortem review to ensure actual project outcome as per plan

– Helps to shape the right business model, the right organization, and the relevant governance for each of the export markets, navigating between our internal organization, our trade partner’ organization and the local tax and regulatory landscapes

Work Experience

• Minimum 9 years working experience, inclusive of 3-5 years of managerial experience

• Some experience of doing business in FMCG, consumer goods industries

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Agile, commercial curiosity and business acumen

• Fluent English

• 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”

• General knowledge of tax and regulatory environment

• Ability to see both the big picture and the details

• Innovative: This is the paramount skill

• Strategic thinking: able to shape a 3–5-year Vision and how to get there