Position Summary

The Assistant FP&A Manager (Commercial) is responsible for analyzing and controlling the financial performance of the Commercial Unit within Southeast Asia against predefined targets.

Month End Closing, Reporting & Performance Analysis
Budgeting & Forecasting
Business Partnering with Marketing & Commercial Team
Ad hoc Financial Studies with Commercial team

Working Location: Vinda SEA HQ (Bandar Bukit Raja, Klang, next to Setia Alam)

Roles:

Span of locations: Malaysia and within Southeast Asia
Business diversity and complexity: working with Sales, Marketing, Finance Reporting, Commercial Controlling and Vinda Group Reporting in Hong Kong

You will play an important role to:

1) Monthly Reporting and Analysis of Performance

Perform month-end closing activities including reconciliations, COGS reclassification, and detailed review of COGS GL transactions.
Prepare monthly logistics cost accruals and ensure completeness and accuracy of reporting.
Prepare monthly logistics cost reports with commentary to warehouse and logistics teams, highlighting significant deviations against Budget/Forecast.
Prepare monthly management P&L by allocating expenses to customer and SKU level and reconcile management P&L with Trial Balance and SEA reports.
Prepare monthly profitability analysis by trade channel, customer, SKU, and other business segments, and respond to queries from stakeholders and SEA team.
Review monthly Sales and Marketing actual and estimated spending against Budget Plan and Forecast.
Assist Manager in analyzing monthly profitability variances including sales, trade spend, gross profit, and operating expenses.
Identify and continuously improve month-end closing and reporting processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

2) Budgeting & Forecasting

Assist the FP&A Manager in setting up, managing, and maintaining budgeting templates and budget preparation activities.
Perform budget roll-down and upload approved commercial budgets into SQL systems.
Consolidation of the SEA budget for submission to the Group Reporting
Prepare and monitor logistics cost budgeting and forecasting.

3) Business Partnering with Marketing & Commercial Team

Finance Analysis - Support the calculation of feasibility study on Commercial initiatives; includes Marketing and Sales promotion activities, Pricing Review, New products/Product Upgrade, transportation model (effects on logistic cost) etc.
Financial Measurement - Support with commercial team on post-event evaluation. Identify and continually seek improvements in business processes to maximize promotion efficiency and increase profitability.

4) Others

Conduct periodic financial education and share sessions with Marketing and Commercial teams.
Manage staff purchase pricing setup and support staff purchase committee/process administration.
Provide business support for commercial projects and cross-functional initiatives as assigned.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

Degree in Accounting/Finance or any relevant discipline
Minimum 5 years of working experience in managing cost accounting/commercial controlling functions
More than 2 years leadership experience preferred

Finance Analyst - FP&A, Regional BI & Planning

Assistant FP&A Manager (Commercial)