Senior Manager, Finance Controlling (APAC) - MY878576

Morgan Philips has been exclusively retained by a leading global MNC to identify a Senior Manager, Finance Controlling to join its Malaysia finance team. This is a high-visibility role at the intersection of regional commercial strategy and financial discipline, the successful candidate will act as a trusted business partner to Malaysia and APAC commercial leadership, shaping how the organization plans, forecasts, and steers performance across a fast-moving regional footprint.

The Opportunity

Sitting within the Controlling function, this role owns the full planning-to-insight cycle from budgeting and rolling forecasts through to variance analysis and executive-level reporting. You'll work at the heart of the business, translating commercial activity into financial clarity, and using that clarity to influence decisions at the country and regional level.

Key Responsibilities

• Forward-looking, planning-driven: budgeting, forecasting, RFC (rolling forecast) cycles, weekly sales forecast - this is steering the business, not recording history
• Business partnering: key business partner for Malaysia and APAC commercial teams, challenging assumptions, translating numbers into insight
• Analytical/insight output: variance analysis, KPI dashboards, cost and profitability views - not statutory statements
• Light accounting touchpoints only: working closely with Accounting for management reporting and supports year-end closing, doesn't own the close or statutory books itself

Controlling (Management/Financial Controlling)

• Focus: monitoring, analyzing, and steering business performance
• Core work: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost control, management reporting, business partnering with operations/commercial teams
• Orientation: forward-looking and analytical, internal stakeholders (management, business unit heads)
• Output: management accounts, KPI dashboards, budget vs. actual analysis, decision-support models

Strong fit criteria:

• Several years in Controlling/FP&A/Commercial Finance, ideally regional/international exposure (not single-market)
• Hands-on ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting — not just support
• Strong P&L/balance sheet/cash-flow understanding, able to explain how commercial decisions hit the numbers
• Advanced Excel + BI tool (SAP, BW, Power BI or similar)
• Confident business partner - challenges stakeholders constructively, translates numbers into simple insight
• Proactive, reliable under pressure