Role: Regional FP&A Manager
Reports to: Vice President of Finance, Asia
Overview: Watlow, approximately $1 billion in annual revenues has seen tremendous growth, while demonstrating strong profitability and cash generation. The company manufactures heaters, sensors, and controls internationally for a wide range of high growth end markets. Acquired by Tinicum a leading Private Equity Firm in 2021, Watlow is positioned for future growth. This is a great opportunity to join a growing company that is going through change. This critical finance role is instrumental in our growth plans to establish and build a strong Financial Planning and Analysis and business partner infrastructure. The position is key in building a high performing team that influences and enables profitable, controlled, and sustainable growth at Watlow, while demonstrating uncompromising integrity, respect, commitment to teamwork, and relentless drive to add value.
Location:
Either Penang Regus Hunza Tower Gurney or Kulim High Tech Park, Kedah
Responsibilities:
- Business partner to BU Directors in the region to drive value creation.
- Prepare the monthly management reports and variance analysis.
- Assist with forecasting and annual budget.
- Update and maintain KPI's and business metrics.
- Identify business problems and opportunities, and potential solutions to action.
- Assist the team to find cost savings, efficiency improvements, and implement growth opportunities
- Provide support to build, analyze, and assess customer and product level profitability analysis to highlight and action margin improvement and growth strategies
- Support preparation of capital and investment decision analysis to evaluate the ROI and payback.
- Help the business prepare and drive process improvement and efficiency initiatives in finance, including developing more effective ways to evaluate the business and results.
- Provide support to establish data mining and automation techniques and systems that enable more efficient analysis.
- Assist with financial modeling of scenarios to make data driven decisions
- Analytical support involvement with the Oracle system implementation analysis team
- Participate in special projects as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's and or master's in finance/accounting or advanced degree, and 5+ years experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis role
- Experience in Excel, Power BI or Tableau, to help analyze and assess the health of the business and to action financial results.
- Knowledge of Oracle is preferred.
- Familiar with multinational environment and comfortable to seek alignment with different stakeholders in the region and globally.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced organization
Why Join Us
- Regional APAC exposure with meaningful business impact.
- Opportunity to work at the intersection of strategy, operations, and finance.
- Strong platform for career progression within a global manufacturing environment.
- Collaborative, performance-driven culture with exposure to senior leadership.
