Finance Transformation Manager

**Job Summary**:
Pernod Ricard has engaged in an ambitious Digital Transformation program to enable high adaptability and full focus on impact and value creation activities.

Reporting to Associate Director FP&A of PR SEA, the **Finance Transformation Manager **will be responsible for driving and implementing Finance Transformation initiatives in PR Singapore working in collaboration with our Finance community, and relevant stakeholders within our business and across functions. In addition to the PR Singapore operational role, this position will have to ensure the proper progression in the implementation of the Finance Initiatives in the other affiliates of the Management Entity. This position will be a key contact for the PMO Digital Transformation PR SEA.

Besides, depending on the Group Digital transformation agenda and priorities defined by the Management team, the Assistant Manager may be involved in specific Business Analysis tasks together with the rest of the team.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Mission 1: Lead Finance 4.0 implementation (and Polaris in particular), and coordinate with all other departments**
- Drive the second wave of developments for the new BI tool (Power BI) and the change management post go-live
- Work with stakeholders to synchronize operations with Polaris reporting requirements
- Management of the flows with other tools
- Polaris for Full P&L and B/S (in collaboration with the Finance Control team)
- Polaris for A&P by project
- Adaptive for P&B

**Mission 2: Build a Data Warehouse, in collaboration with IT teams and other teams**
- Define the local Master Data governance
- Ensuring data quality and coherence across all Finance tools

**Mission 3: Actively participate to the “Beyond Budget” implementation (rolling forecast instead of annual budget)**
- S&OP process and Executive S&OP deck: participate actively to the process from a finance standpoint (bring value perspective in the forecast) and participate to the deck elaboration
- Anaplan - Volume to Value (V2V): Ensure the data quality from Volume to Value (prices, COGs)

**Mission 4: Coordinate the finance transformation roadmap, setting a proper project management treatment, in collaboration with the PMO**
- Participate in steering & project committees of PR Singapore Finance transformation
- Gather and share best practices between affiliates
- Consolidate and share feedbacks by the teams in the implementation (lack of resources or technical issues) to share with the PMO Digital transformation PR SEA and the Transformation office in Asia
- Work together with the PMO on the change management (training, etc )

**Mission 5: Participate to financial reporting processes and monitoring of the performance**
- Providing ongoing support to PRS business analysis team in relation to Group reporting procedures (PRISMA/Polaris)
- Participating to any BA tasks that may be required depending on the priorities set
- Be proactive in terms of improvement of financial processes and existing analysis regarding the activity and the performance of PR Singapore

**Job Requirements**:

- Degree holder with formal business qualifications or equivalent
- Minimum 10 years of relevant working experience
- Strong knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and local tax regulations
- Knowledge of Business Analysis techniques and methods
- Familiarity with JD Edwards will be an advantage
- Excellent command of English language (verbal and written)

**Personal and Behavioral Skills**:
**Management Skills**
- Tech savvy
- Listening capability, empathy
- Strong organization skills, ability to manage and organize effectively
- Ability to anticipate and keen foresight on things
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to motivate others and lead change

**Other Softs Skills**:

- Excellent communication and presentation skills (with the ability to speak and present to a range of audiences)
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to build good relations and create a trustful climate
- Strong interest in business, business analysis and business development
- Strong analytical skills & ability to restitute clearly on sophisticated ideas
- Proactive & reactive
- Accuracy / “Figures Oriented Analysis” and informed/evidence-based approach
- Ability to work independently
- Enthusiasm, team player, sense of curiosity, positive attitude to change
- Diplomacy with capability to put a stand to his/her positions
- Transparency