1. Advanced Excel Automation & Process Standardization
- System & Process Improvement: Audit legacy regional reports and engineer advanced, dynamic, and automated Excel models (utilizing Power Query, advanced array formulas, VBA/macros etc.) to eliminate manual data input & analysis.
- Regional Standardization: Design, deploy, and enforce uniform financial reporting frameworks and templates across all local country finance teams to ensure absolute data consistency.
- Independent Technical Research: Act as a highly self-sufficient troubleshooter. When faced with model breaks, system limitations, or complex data logic errors, to leverage online research, technical forums, and documentation to find solutions independently.
- ERP Optimization: Utilize Microsoft Dynamics 365 to pull, map, and clean raw data efficiently into standardized reporting models.
2. Treasury & Cash Management
- Liquidity & Forecasting: Oversee daily cash management operations, cash positioning, and regional liquidity pools across all SEA business units.
- Cash Flow Forecasting: Develop, maintain, and refine rolling cash forecast models to optimize working capital and minimize idle funds.
- Loan & Debt Administration: Manage the end-to-end administration of corporate loans, revolving credit facilities, interest payments, and covenant compliance monitoring.
- Dividend Distribution: Coordinate, execute, and track regional dividend declarations and cross-border cash repatriations in compliance with local regulatory frameworks.
- Cash Submission Requirement: Ability to meet and prioritise weekly SEA Cash Flow report to the UK Group Treasury team.
3. Regional Consolidation & Stakeholder Management
- Data Aggregation: Aggregate, reconcile, and analyze varied monthly financial submissions from individual country business units into a unified SEA regional reports.
- Cross-Border Liaison: Partner closely with international finance managers and cross-functional stakeholders across various SEA countries to align cash forecasts, accounting closing processes and resolve financial modelling breaks.
- Month-End Closing Requirement: Maintain high operational resilience and remain on standby during critical accounting month-end closing windows to support the wider team through tight regional deadlines.