Total 3 job vacancies by Alstom Transport (s) Pte Ltd

Key accountabilities:

• Participate in overall Project Management process jointly with Project Manager.
• Main partner for the Financial Strategy success of the project - Optimize financial aspects on the project Org. Tax, Hedging, Financing.
• Business Partnering:

1. Provide finance advise and tutoring to the project team.
2. Set up technical expertise within the real and current concerns of the business to create value.
3. Enrich integration within the organization (functional intermediation).
4. Ensure compliance of finance rules in project review preparation and throughout project execution.
5. Contribute to business agility and awareness.

• Supervision, analysis and support for overall finance topics of the project.
• Control the financial performance of the project and propose action plans to improve contract margin and cash profile as well as corrective action plans to mitigate identified risks.
• Raised "Early Warnings" when necessary to increase management attention.
• Add insight and accuracy to project financial information (Improve accuracy on forecasts, revenue, cash, cost, etc.).
• Challenge and approve Project Financials (cash, competitiveness) as per DoA.
• Provide confirmation of Internal Transfer Pricing policies to procurement for the issuance of internal purchase orders.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, especially for tax and statutory accounts purposes.
• Liaise with other finance expert functions (e.g. Tax and Customs, Treasury and Financing, Internal Audit & Risk Management, Accounting and Finance efficiency, etc.).
• Cooperate with other expert functions (e.g. legal, platforms, Operational Excellence, etc.).
• Contribute in negotiation processes to secure project success (customer and / or partner).
• Support PM in risks and opportunities process and sign-off contingencies/committed savings.
• Partner with PM and CM in Contract & Claim Management (focus on finance topics & risks profile).

Main activities:

• Prepare jointly with the project team, the project reviews content and reassess each semester the profitability.
• Explain, justify, and keep record in detail of the estimates.
• FPM is permanently focused on adding value through:

1. Participating and influencing negotiations (Price review, financial T&C, VO´s, Claims, etc.).
2. Challenging financial information throughout project process (consistent “Early Warning” for financial impacts of projects operational performances and risk mitigation).
3. Monitoring compliance with all governance and reporting rules & regulations in project.
4. Corroborating the permanent compliance of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
5. Understanding the contractual terms and conditions and advising about all financial matters in contract, focusing on guiding on competitiveness improvement.
6. Supporting Claim Management (jointly with Project Manager & and Contract Manager), focus on finance topics, risks profile (support amendments wording).
7. Managing and analyzing costs, revenue, and profitability.
   Preparing timely forecasts for sales, costs, margin, and cash.
8. Permanently looking for liquidity flows and working capital optimization and promote cash culture in the project.
9. Ensuring billing process (external or internal) is made on a timely manner.
10. Supporting the finance teams in the monthly closing process and reporting Project financials in a suitable manner.
11. Supporting requests made of Performance Management Group.
12. Challenge eligibility and relevance Capex & R&D analyzing impacts and optimizing how to implement and informing Operations Finance about the amounts considered at tender stage.
13. Reconciling project data and General Ledger on regular basis.
14. Ensuring project contractual bonds and guarantees are issued on due time and request release "as soon as possible", avoiding unnecessary expenses.
    

Key accountabilities:

• Participate in overall Project Management process jointly with Project Manager.
• Main partner for the Financial Strategy success of the project - Optimize financial aspects on the project Org. Tax, Hedging, Financing.
• Business Partnering:

1. Provide finance advise and tutoring to the project team.
2. Set up technical expertise within the real and current concerns of the business to create value.
3. Enrich integration within the organization (functional intermediation).
4. Ensure compliance of finance rules in project review preparation and throughout project execution.
5. Contribute to business agility and awareness.

• Supervision, analysis and support for overall finance topics of the project.
• Control the financial performance of the project and propose action plans to improve contract margin and cash profile as well as corrective action plans to mitigate identified risks.
• Raised "Early Warnings" when necessary to increase management attention.
• Add insight and accuracy to project financial information (Improve accuracy on forecasts, revenue, cash, cost, etc.).
• Challenge and approve Project Financials (cash, competitiveness) as per DoA.
• Provide confirmation of Internal Transfer Pricing policies to procurement for the issuance of internal purchase orders.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, especially for tax and statutory accounts purposes.
• Liaise with other finance expert functions (e.g. Tax and Customs, Treasury and Financing, Internal Audit & Risk Management, Accounting and Finance efficiency, etc.).
• Cooperate with other expert functions (e.g. legal, platforms, Operational Excellence, etc.).
• Contribute in negotiation processes to secure project success (customer and / or partner).
• Support PM in risks and opportunities process and sign-off contingencies/committed savings.
• Partner with PM and CM in Contract & Claim Management (focus on finance topics & risks profile).

Main activities:

• Prepare jointly with the project team, the project reviews content and reassess each semester the profitability.
• Explain, justify, and keep record in detail of the estimates.
• FPM is permanently focused on adding value through:

1. Participating and influencing negotiations (Price review, financial T&C, VO´s, Claims, etc.).
2. Challenging financial information throughout project process (consistent “Early Warning” for financial impacts of projects operational performances and risk mitigation).
3. Monitoring compliance with all governance and reporting rules & regulations in project.
4. Corroborating the permanent compliance of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
5. Understanding the contractual terms and conditions and advising about all financial matters in contract, focusing on guiding on competitiveness improvement.
6. Supporting Claim Management (jointly with Project Manager & and Contract Manager), focus on finance topics, risks profile (support amendments wording).
7. Managing and analyzing costs, revenue, and profitability.
   Preparing timely forecasts for sales, costs, margin, and cash.
8. Permanently looking for liquidity flows and working capital optimization and promote cash culture in the project.
9. Ensuring billing process (external or internal) is made on a timely manner.
10. Supporting the finance teams in the monthly closing process and reporting Project financials in a suitable manner.
11. Supporting requests made of Performance Management Group.
12. Challenge eligibility and relevance Capex & R&D analyzing impacts and optimizing how to implement and informing Operations Finance about the amounts considered at tender stage.
13. Reconciling project data and General Ledger on regular basis.
14. Ensuring project contractual bonds and guarantees are issued on due time and request release "as soon as possible", avoiding unnecessary expenses.
    

Purpose of the job:

• The successful candidate will oversee all Finance aspects of Alstom’s Operations at Asia-Pacific Region, specifically estimating, analysing and reporting of Operational Financial & Functional cost.
• Acts as a Financial support and business partner to APAC’s Rolling Stock VP’s as well as the different métiers
• Finance support and domain expert for the Business Performance Director
• Measure Productivity and Functional Cost performance for the region.
• Track Saving measures linked to the scope of AT500 Indirect sourcing initiative or equivalent

Key accountabilities:

• Controller of the APAC Regional HQ (AP REM / RU 5203), responsible for the planning cycles, actual reporting and reinvoicing processes, responding queries from Internal Control (ICQ) and External Auditors as well as preparing a monthly AP HQ Business Review
• Business Partner of the APAC Rolling Stock Compo leadership providing them visibility of the Financial Performance of the Operations
• APAC POH Function Controller and Organizer of the Full Cost Controlling (including NPOH) animating the community of function controllers
• Regional counterpart of the Central Operations Finance team for RSCand Services, reporting monthly the MOF (Monthly Operations Finance)
• Contributor to the APAC Business Review and the APAC Finance Business Review in the Ops Finance KPIs
• AT500 + Finance Embassador: coordinate the financial savings deriving from Indirect sourcing performance initiatives such as AT500 etc.
• Animate the Community of Operations Finance and Industrial Controllers in APAC
• FiM: responsible for the deployment of initiatives within the Finance functions in order to boost productivity (automate reports, enhance knowledge of finance instructions and accounting rules, etc…)
• Coordinates budgeting & monthly reporting activities for the various functions & respective scorecards.
• Coordinates the yearly Hourly Rate & Coefficients reviews with sites within the APAC region, gives the appropriate assessment for the Region’s VP validation and follow-up on needs to recalculate them
• Guardian of the FI07 rules and ensures its proper understanding and application by the different stakeholders
• Monitor absorption of functional costs to various projects & activities through the under-/-over recovery mechanism of productive hours
• Interacts with clusters finance teams to enhance the level of understanding of variances & gaps at closings.
• Ensures successful roll-outs of improvement & productivity initiatives in APAC locations & countries.
• Feeds the analysis of Alstom’s central FP&A team at budget and monthly closing times.
• Work to improve self-servicing capabilities & on-line access to finance data for the operational leaders.
• Continue help re-design & improve operations scorecards addressing the key priorities as company focus evolves.
• Promoting the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct.

Key Job Authorities and Dimensions

• 3Bn Region Turnover
• 5 Clusters , 12 countries, 12 manufacturing sites
• 17,000 employees, 26m annual Hours
• 0.7Bn Region Inventory
• 25m annual CAPEX

Performance measurements:

• Production Overhead Costs & Productivity
• Costs Controlling by Nature & by Function
• Follow FTE by Function and related KPIs (Added Sales/FTE, etc.)
• Gathers from Cash Controller analysis on: Hard & Acc. Inventory, Trade Payable, CAPEX
• Restructuring
• Added Sales, Workload, External Material and Other Direct Project Costs
• Hourly Rates & Coefficients (DLR, DCR, Ki, Kp), Under/Over Recovery (split of effect by seasonality, performance, one-offs, etc.), Effective Hourly Rates
• AT500 Indirect Sourcing savings
• Follow Operational KPIs (CONQ, #Cars delivered, Defects per unit, etc.)

Educational Requirements

Business degree

Experience

• 10+ year of increasing Finance responsibility
• Previous position in a manufacturing, supply chain and/or an engineering finance role, or at the very least an advanced understanding of performance levers & metrics in an operations context.
• Previous exposure to inventory & standard cost accounting.