About the role
AI summarisedThe Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A for Southeast Asia will serve as a strategic business partner to senior leaders across the region, driving profitable growth through financial planning, forecasting, and analysis. This role involves leading regional finance transformation initiatives, managing core FP&A workstreams, and developing a high-performance finance team. The position requires strong analytical skills, leadership capabilities, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
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Key Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders or key partners in the region to drive profitable organic growth
- Use data to unearth insights/opportunities to drive high double-digit growth in the region
- Financial modeling and options analysis for strategic imperatives esp. on GTM and others as per business requirements
- Manage standard FP&A workstream including monthly closing, commercial forecast, monthly and quarterly business review, annual operating plan, long terms strategic plan, etc.
- Proactive planning and clear communication of timelines and deliverables to lead FP&A cadences
- Provide finance support and advice to regional enabling functions, including resource planning and optimization
- Lead regional business intelligence and finance reporting function, keep on looking for opportunities for simplification and digital transformation
- Support and grow a high-performance regional finance planning and analytics team, keep on levelling up team competency level and better support both the functional and broader commercial organization
- Drive practical process improvement across the region for better control and productivity
- Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, while also driving collaboration and coordination across key projects
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum 10 years working experience in MNC, commercial finance experience is preferred
- Self-motivated, customer oriented and result driven
- Organized, with ability to maintain accuracy of information and meet deadline with little supervision
- Good commercial sense and comfortable navigating through matrix organization. Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity
- Comfortable with communicating with senior management and cross function. Strong influencing skill
- Experience in leading and coaching a large finance team in varied businesses conditions. Passion for people development and talent management
- Strong sense on numbers and proficient in excel, finance modelling. Strongly prefer comfort/familiarity with digital tools such as PowerBI as well as AI-enabled automations
- Detail driven, able to handle large amount of data and multiple systems, find out logic and fix problems from root cause
- Capable of learning new things and able to learn on the fly