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Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Finance Business Partner to join our team. This role will act as a key financial advisor to local Commercial & Operations teams, driving constructive collaboration, setting clear financial goals, and sharing accountability for business performance. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, leadership qualities, and a deep understanding of financial planning and analysis processes.
Responsibilities:
Finance Business Partnering:
Act as Finance Business Partner to local Commercial & Operations teams. Drive constructive collaboration, propagate clear goals and expectations, manage effectively to describe and deliver financial objectives. Share accountability for business performance.
Be aware of the Commercial pipeline (local & GI) and support the deployment of pricing approval (PA) models. Be actively concerned that Commercial pipeline controls operate effectively. Participate in Opportunity Review Board discussion when required. Collaborate with the APAC Commercial FBP team to evaluate and report revenue pipeline status, performance and outlook.
Collaborate with the APAC Commercial and APAC Operations FBP teams - and directly with global business unit and functional stakeholders as may be needed from time to time - to deploy, establish and maintain management processes and working business models that coordinate and collate:- Strategic planning; Growth projections, capacity & capital expenditure planning and cash planning & management;; Monthly & Quarterly forecasting with structured assessment of risks & opportunities.
Provide routine reporting of financial results. Draw on and assimilate ‘report on a page’ or ‘vital signs’ style resources promoted by the Commercial FBP and Operations FBP teams to show: A coherent mix of leading and lagging performance metrics; Linkages to the underlying drivers of financial results; Measures of confidence around completeness.
Conduct variance analysis and other ad hoc investigations which provide the business with accurate and clear insights to: Identify and evaluate performance in comparison to strategic imperatives and budgeting objectives; Determine issues/countermeasures and assess risks/opportunities. Follow up issues to maintain awareness in the business and promote solutions.
Orchestrate formal Business Review requirements and provide required inputs to cluster, regional and global stakeholders.
Contribute to the production of business investment and capital expenditure cases, ensuring due diligence in the assessment of variables and determination of modelling inputs.
Collaborate with the APAC Operations FBP team to propagate initiatives, standards and protocols designed to sustain and grow profitability.
Ensure that there is prior approval and effective gatekeeping on all CapEx projects: enforce regional/global approval processes; submit compiled project materials for further review and approval as policy requires.
Support pricing and revenue management programs as required from time to time.
Be satisfied that procurement and payables processes and systems operate to: optimize OpEx & CapEx; enforce required delegations of authority for requisitioning expenditure; match invoices to properly authorized requisitions or other validation prior to payment and minimize transaction processing cost.
General Finance Function:
Appropriately and actively engage and co-operate with both:
C&A (Control & Accounting, through Cluster Controllership) in relation to:
Tracking Shared Services KPI’s, managing service delivery and maintaining quality.
Facilitating external and internal audit relationships, supporting audit projects and following through on audit issues.
Meeting all local compliance requirements: statutory financial reporting; taxation; prudential controls; other regulatory requirements.
Execution of accounting period close procedures and compilation of accounting records in compliance with group accounting policies and internal controls, US GAAP and SOX requirements.
Maintain the balance sheet.
Manage cash resources, forecast cash flow and maintain funding to ensure the company can meet its commitments as and when they fall due.
Relevant Global Finance CoE’s (e.g. A2C, GRO FP&A, treasury, tax, global real estate) to streamline or bolster local capability, including through adoption of best practice policies, data gathering protocols, transaction systems and operating procedures.
Qualifications:
Tertiary qualifications in finance or related field.
Professional accounting qualifications.
Minimum of 8 years experience of advanced FP&A processes.
Demonstrate data analysis, financial management reporting and financial performance evaluation skills.
Demonstrate experience in supporting commercial and operations leaders to drive financial performance.
Relevant understanding of core accounting standards.
Experience in designing, implementing and improving financial system and processes.
Skills & Style:
Able to communicate concepts and findings clearly.
High standards of accuracy and integrity; supports initiatives to drive revenue and grow the business while promoting orderly, controlled execution.
Leadership: Orchestrate planning and forecasting processes across multiple functions.
Data Driven: Able to logically assimilate a variety of data points, manage a budget and help others execute without close supervision.
Well-developed FP&A competencies.
Strong technology skills: Google workspace, knowledge in mainstream ERP and FP&A system, concepts and processes.
Able to understand matrix organizational structure.
Ability to articulate performance expectations and hold others accountable in a constructive manner.
