KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To manage the month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting process, with the following specific responsibilities

• Responsible for P&L landing estimates, built through having a strong understanding of performance trends, drivers and variance
• Responsible for quality and timely preparation of financial performance reports
• Track and support delivery of market KPI’s during financial year
• Manage the monthly rolling forecast model and process – coordinate with various functions (commercial, operations, HR) to compile forecast P&L
• Proactively drive cost efficiency, identify risks and opportunities against target
• Ensuring accrued rebate, A&P and expense has been processed to reflect with immaterial misstatements
• Analyse the actual results on a monthly basis, highlighting and obtaining explanations for unusual entries and for variances from agreed plans/landing forecast
• Preparation and submission of the regional Budget and Latest Estimate (LE) forecasts, by building the necessary templates, providing guidance and challenge to the team, and communicating final numbers
• Work seamlessly with the SEA Finance team, ensuring alignment on approach and full transparency
• Continuous identification of opportunities to improve processes

 SALES DECISION SUPPORT

To act as a business partner to Regional Director, Commercial and Customer Marketing with the following specific responsibilities:

• Develop a detailed understanding of value chain and distributor account profitability
• Act as a first point of contact to the market for all financial queries. Queries will include data accuracy and performance tracking, as well as analysis to help drive future performance
• Support the Commercial team in identifying opportunities to take price and drive margin improvement
• Conduct promotion (price and A&P), outlet spending decision support through pre and post evaluation of promotional activity using ROI tools to drive spend effectiveness and provide recommendation
• Being a gateway to ensure all pricing and promotion are implemented within guideline. Any exception would need to get approval
• Ensuring integrity of price list in the system by reviewing the completeness and correctness 

 MARKETING DECISION SUPPORT

• Prepare and distribute monthly A&P spending reports
• Monitor on a monthly basis actual A&P spend versus Budget and IAP, highlighting variances and discrepancies to Regional director/ Commercial and Customer marketing and ensuring robust accounting principles are applied
• Complete tracking and performance analysis versus targets of key Brand Market Combinations (BMC), highlighting variances and discrepancies to Regional Director/ Finance Manager on major variances
• Conduct analysis to assess effectiveness of marketing spend through pre and post evaluation using ROI tool

to help allocate resource appropriately

• Support the marketing of IAP and WBS code set up for budgeting and actual spending.

Work experience requirements

•  3-5 years of related work experience in finance/accounting/analysis. Experience in leading consumer goods or retail company is a plus
• Educational requirements: Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and/or Accounting or equivalent.  MBA or equivalent designation preferred
• Language skills: Fluent in spoken and written English
• Require travel in SEA 8%