What you will do
1. Asia Regional FP&A
- Act as the Finance business partner to the Asia leadership team which includes the Corporate Planning and Cluster business heads.
- Measure and track business performance in the Asia region on a monthly basis, and lead risk and opportunities financial analysis along with key business assumption changes.
- Provide monthly management P&L reports to the Asia management team at regional level.
- Manage key processes of a) annual Budget planning with guidance, key milestone, and target setting, and b) quarterly Forecast updates in collaboration with the Asia Corporate Planning team, Business Cluster teams, and cross functional teams.
- Support Head of Finance-Asia to drive initiatives and projects, by partnering with business and functional teams, such as new business models, M&A, and system implementations.
- Business partnering and decision-making support for driving expected performances and achieving strategic objectives and financial goals.
- Take leadership to optimize cross-functional processes and collaborate to maximize impact on businesses, customers, and teams.
- Drive transformation and simplification of business processes with development of mindset to success.
- Drive strong collaboration with country finance teams – provide coaching on FP&A related deliverables, business cases analysis, scenario planning and simulations.
- Partner with CFU/HF/CF to ensure financial KPIs and reporting requirements.
- Perform a standard costing process for Asia RDC operations – manage control principles and procedures in collaboration with SCM team.
- Manage Finance master data in existing ERP and for the future SAP project.
- Establish strong functioning FP&A team for Asia Region - lead, coach and develop FP&A analysts.
2. Country FP&A for Singapore/Alliance cluster
- Perform quarterly forecast, annual budgeting, and monthly performance reviews with reconciliation analysis between actuals and forecasts.
- Provide valuable input for decision-making support such as new product launch.
- Work with functions to prepare budget / forecasts and consolidate them into country P&L.
- Collaborate with Market Access function on pricing strategy and price setting, provide financial analysis to safeguard gross margin and ensure sustainable profitability.
3. Business Development Support across the Asia region
- Support cross function team to conduct due diligence.
- Participate in Project teams and provide financial insights for decision making support.
- Post merger integration support with establishing business processes, integrating accounting systems and resolving operational issues.