Business Finance Assistant Manager

Job Mission: 

Business Finance function needs to be agile and dynamic, proactive business partnering with the aim to influence strategic decision where possible. We will pivot towards a more predictive and analytical future as opposed to descriptive analysis.  

We shall no longer just report the news but help create the news. Connect the internal and external insights; proactively drive and shape the direction of the business.  

Business Partnership: 

• Transformational: The position shall have the attributes to challenge the status quo, be creative and innovative. Processes or reports in the past may be challenged and propose improvements for the better 

• Proactive: finance is a gatekeeper of cross departments data and information. This privilege enables us to analyses data independently without bias and provide for actionable insights to support decision making 

• Agile: Work independently and be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity. Be curious to find out what we don’t know, a proactive and continuous learner. The pace of the business is moving fast and equally our responsiveness to support 

• Entrepreneur, motivated and driven: mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”  

• Relationships-focused: Be collaborative and team player with various teams including finance, business and other corporate functions at local, regional and global.   

• Data governance and data mining: Leading data migration across all division and departments, drive single source of truth on data integration 

Key Responsibilities:  

Corporate Function  

• Responsible for consolidation and reporting at entity level, by closely day-to-day connection with division teams and corporate cross functional teams.
• Gatekeeper for entity level financial reporting to make sure accurate and timely reporting to fulfill the requirements from regional and global.
• Gatekeeper and key contact point of window from Business Finance Team to make sure accurate and timely data support to cross function for business support needs on needed basis.
• Responsible for continuous process improvement to improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.

• Curiosity and will to drive proactive analysis. Comfortable to work with large volumes of data and information, yet able to extract key insights. Highlight risks and opportunities.

• Assert influence over stakeholders and be a team player.

• Lobby to regional and global teams for our local team requests and requirements.

Contribute to strategic business decisions 

• Derive business scenarios using predictive analysis to come up with possible actions and guide stakeholders towards a solution.

• Streamline process from end to end to make sure financial healthy .

• Support target setting and performance management and drive forecast accuracy.

• Drive sustainability initiatives and assess financial and non-financial impact.

• Build data migration pipeline and drive single source of truth.

Drive business performance management 

• Key contributor to develop automated reports to support business decision making and enhance work efficiency.

• Develop and maintain periodically dashboard for performance tracking on different granularity to support business diagnosis in a timely and accurate manner.
• Profitability and productivity scope 360. The focus is qualitative profitability growth while never compromising on our brand equity.

• Oversee actual financial reporting and budget variance analysis.

• Drive tata integrity in TVT and process optimization as key member of ESG council. Target setting and performance management of decarbonization initiatives to make sure single source of truth.

• Actively engage in all corporate projects to provide financial solution and ROI analysis.

• Active in identifying and supporting improvements in internal controls and business process improvements.

Drive efficient planning/budgeting  

• Participate into monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budget and mid-term planning cycles. Set clear guidelines upfront and coordinating the end-to-end process with budget owners.

• Contribute to development of Business Review and Strategic Alignment Meetings. Support and present to management.

• Prepare local templates to support the budget planning at the relevant level of detail. Different layout to deep