Finance Manager (Forecasting & Analytics)
8 months ago
Role entails:
Providing insightful forecasts and performance analysis to facilitate understanding and decision-making by the senior management.
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Role entails:
- Providing insightful forecasts and performance analysis to facilitate understanding and decision-making by the senior management.
- Actively provide accurate and useful outlook based on scenarios for budget and planning.
- Create and provide financial models with changing assumptions and accurate phasing.
- Deliver effective financial support to the Finance Director in analyzing the Product Cost structure by plant and by SKU.
- Maximize efficiency and identify opportunities to reduce COGS and freight costs through close collaboration with other functional teams both internally and externally.
Additionally, the successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:
- Annual Planning and reporting of Global COGS
- Prepare monthly forecasting of Global COGS & variance analysis month on month.
- Identify and assess risks & opportunities for senior management on a monthly basis.
- Design and roll out a global KPI dashboard to provide an overview of global operations performance.
- Preparation of monthly cash purchase summary per various currencies vs hedge rate
- Assist in the development and implementation of tools, systems, and processes to support the successful completion of timely and accurate forecasts.
- Proactively identify process improvement opportunities, consult and counsel with teams both locally and globally, leading to implementation of the process
- Provide thorough and accurate responses to Senior Management, Corporate and Audit-related inquiries.
- Provide support to the Supply Chain & Operations team as needed with operational workflow in systems.
- Systems database maintenance
- Follow up on Prices for New SKU, Price changes for product cost
- SAP Master Data review of Product cost and Intercompany Prices
- Ensure that the various reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled.
- Other ad-hoc accounting projects or duties as and when assigned.
Role requirements:
- A recognized degree in Accountancy or Finance with a successful track record of delivering analytical projects of at least 10 years in finance in MNCs.
- Advanced analytical skills and the ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture
- Ability to think outside of the box and utilize available resources.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Possess effective communication with a “can do” attitude and strong people skills.
- Possess strong skills in MS Excel (Pivot tables, V-Lookups, Power Query, Power Automate).
- Experience with SAP, Power BI and TM1
- SAP and Power BI knowledge would be an advantage.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel (Power Query, Power Automate & Pivot tables).
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