Commercial Senior Finance Analyst

Position Summary

The Commercial Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for analyzing and controlling the financial performance of the Commercial Unit within Southeast Asia against predefined targets.

• Monthly Reporting and Analysis of Performance
• Leading and executing in the Budget process
• Business Partnering with Commercial teams
• Adhoc Financial Studies with Commercial team

You will play an important role to:

1. Monthly Reporting and Analysis of Performance

• Prepare monthly management report and review with the management.
• Review with commercial team on actual performance compared to Budget results. Highlight major deviations against Budget. Update of performance against KPIs where relevant.
• Monthly Review of Profitability Perform monthly review of profitability on Trade Channel, SKU and etc.
• Monthly Review of Sales and Marketing on actual and estimate spends, and compare to BP/forecast.
• Continues Improvement - Identify and continually seek improvements areas for better profitability.

2. Budgeting

• Preparation of budget Template Assist the Controlling Manager to setup, manage and control the budget template, including the preparation of budget.
• Roll down of Budget Roll down of commercial approved Budget.
• Consolidation of the SEA budget for submission to the Group Reporting.

3. Business Partnering with Commercial Business Units

• 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) and 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

• Cost reduction Assist and advise commercial team to seek for costs reduction through financial analysis, contract review and etc.
• Financial education Periodic financial education to the commercial team.
• Any other business support with commercial project management, cross functional.

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

• Degree in Accounting/Finance or in relevant discipline.
• 2-4 years of working experiences.
• Previous working experiences in FMCG or MNC environment is preferred.
• Microsoft Excel experience is a must (intermediate level).
• Oracle / SAP system experience is preferred.
• Well organized and detail-oriented.