Senior Financial Planning

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We are searching for a Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager for East Asia and India who possesses the solid financial planning skills to operate effectively in a matrix environment and have confidence in driving aggressive growth plans. The person should have a consultative and collaborative leadership style, a proven business transformation track record and experienced in building effective teams. We are only shortlisting driven, resilient, enterprising, agile and motivated individual who wants to be part of a growing company.

**THE ROLE**

This role is responsible for driving the business planning and analysis strategies and actions plans to support the Senior Director of Finance together with Regional functional leaders (i.e., Innovation, Operations, Finance, HR, IT and Supply Chain) to achieve overall organization’s objectives. In addition, this role would have to liaise with Multi-discipline team including support functions, to delight our Internal stakeholders.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES / ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES **_: _**_Other duties may be assigned beyond the core functions listed below.Accountability #1: Accounting and Closing
- Lead and monitor sites across EA&I to ensure monthly closing is completed and validated within the timeline
- Provide technical guidelines/coach in relation accounting rules and accounting treatments when sites have new business module or have key business changes, monitor the implementation, as well as continuous improvements.
- Lead accounting/reporting consistency implementation with guide from Corporate or regional finance leaders/self-initiation per continuous improvement needs, including data validation, data mapping, training, developing canned reports, design normalization solutions as well as monitoring the implementation

Accountability #2: Financial Planning, Forecast, Reporting and Analysis
- Prepare and submit flash reports to global leadership team and regional leadership team
- Coordinate financial review meetings, work with each BU to deliver accurate reporting and financial forecast.
- Prepares consolidated regular (monthly) financial reports, analysis, bridges
- Provide management with insights into drivers of revenue, productivity, risks, and opportunities as well as variance analysis of actual, prior year, forecast and Plan.
- Prepares consolidated regular (monthly) financial reports, analysis, bridges
- Establish monthly KPI tracker / dashboard reports for regional and country teams.
- Improve current process on reporting and analysis, adopt new tools, to automate/reduce manual processes.
- Coordinate Strategic Plans and lead annual budget / quarterly forecast process include but not limited to below.
- Design budget and forecast schedule for the whole region, establish template, publish key assumptions, determine, and submit accounting changes proposal, collect, and consolidate sites ’submissions, prepare overlay loading, and analyze and comment on the reporting of preliminary and final packs.
- Support functional leaders, coordinate functional costs forecast, budgeting, actual reporting, and analysis at EA&I level, design customization reports as well as lead harmonization projects requested by functional leaders.
- Complete budget/forecast packs and key P&L components analysis (Pricing/FX/Mix/IC markup elimination/Inflation/productivity/SGA) per corporate timeline
- Coordinate and consolidate daily & weekly sales reports for EA&I
- Provide administration support in relation to BI to EA&I Finance users and provide training as necessary.
- Coordinate and consolidate Reporting requests for EA&I as well as provide technical support to sites finance teams in relation to GAAP conversion.

Accountability #3: Others
- Coordinate and consolidate risk and exposure reports
- Participate in the internal control and compliance activities, including SOX testing/review, Control Self-Assessment and Balance Sheet Review as necessary
- Share best practice and comply with GAAP and corporate guidelines
- Be responsible for special