Senior Fp&a Manager Asean

Reporting to Commercial Controller ASEAN, you are responsible for supporting the ASEAN Finance Team / Business Stakeholders in financial planning and analysis exercises under different scenarios including plan / budgeting / actual results. Those reports and analysis include standard financial slides deck, monthly financial review, ASEAN monthly reporting deck, and other ad-hoc reports supporting the business stakeholders to track and monitor the KPI achievement against year-end target set. This person also needs to work closely with Global Counterparts to drive and deliver business change and transformation programs. These include but not limited to develop regional business cases, through readiness assessment, future state design and benefits realization. You will own the deployment of various strategic projects within the Finance function across the countries in the region, support them in building a solid understanding of the Finance operating model and global business processes, and help the local and regional team to simplify and harmonize the policies & procedures as well as reporting processes.

**Responsibilities**:
**Month-End / Budgeting & Forecasting Planning/ LV / Business Reviews**
- Ensure submission deadlines from markets within ASEAN for monthly results (FLASH / ACTUALS / LV), forecast and plan are met and with quality commentaries.
- Lead the Planning and forecasting process with the markets and be the SPOC from Region.
- Facilitate necessary discussions on reporting issues which put delivery within deadlines at risk.
- Prepare month-end/ planning financials which is required within a very short time frame with high level of accuracy.
- Provide high quality support to the management as well as other functional teams during preparation for Business Reviews with Area and other ad-hoc meetings.
- Provide insightful analysis on the financials and suggest implications on business performance.
- P&L reconciliation with Productivity Reporting

**Business Partnering with Different Business Stakeholders**
- Lead the Budgeting and Forecasting processes for relevant regional leaders in ASEAN, partner with them to define and monitor appropriate production metrics, track and report results against goals.
- Develop financial reports for business stakeholders and group reporting.
- Provide financial guidance and support to Business to understand profitability, what are the gaps in achievement of KPIs and mitigating plan.
- Perform Risk and Ops assessment in collaboration with business stakeholders to ensure that financial implication from both sides are tracked and monitored.

**Business Readiness and Change Management**
- Work closely with Power Users from markets within ASEAN during deployment to ensure local teams have the knowledge to support the key program activities (e.g. new management reporting system, new analytical tool for variance analysis, etc.)
- Act as an advocate for the standardization of global business processes, data and new systems implementation within the business.
- Understand and gather information on change impact assessment in local and initiate changes to existing local processes to support new deployment initiated by Global / BU.
- Deploy the regional communication strategy defined by Global / BU.
- Facilitate best practice sharing across the countries and regions.

**Upcoming projects (list is non-exhaustive)**:

- Data extraction via Power BI in data warehouses from local ERP systems such as SAP sunrise/JDE.
- Regional PIC for SAP sunrise implementation in ASEAN markets.
- Financial Reporting Automation.
- New BU transition and reporting.
- Streamline, standardize and automate reports of GMVA project.
- Shared Services (P2P, R2R, Intercompany non-stock transactions) - consolidate and standardize business processes to improve efficiency and productivity.
- E Buy (SAP) supports procurement of non-production spends efficiently through central governance of supplier creation and promotes usage of global procurement contracts/ catalogues to ensure direct compliance.

**Requirements**:

- Recognised Degree in Finance or Accounting, CA/ ACCA or equivalent.
- At least 8 years proven work experience within Finance/Accounting.
- Experience of working within a multinational environment/ FMCG industry preferred.
- Microsoft Office literacy essential
- SAP, BPC, JDE, HFM, Fusion, Cognos knowledge desirable.
- General system fluency: willingness to partner with IT team on upgrades, change requests.