Job Details
Nationality Requirement: MalaysiaLanguage Requirements: English/Fluent ;Melayu/Fluent
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Brand Responsibilities
-Provide Finance Director and Brand team on brand performance and marketing expense (MaEx) (including key franchises) analysis in a practical and timely manner.
-Provide Brand financial performance insights through scenario and sensitivity analysis per category or article level.
-Go-in margin analysis and modelling with close collaboration with MOPs and Demand planning
-Understand category performance through PVM analysis to identify R&O and impact on margins.
-Partner with the Brand Head to deliver MaEx annual plan, budget, and forecast, and drive rigor on accuracy of marketing spend.
-Collaborate with brand team and SEA FP&A on regular MaEx reporting and analysis (E.g. actuals and forecast)
-Support assessment on commercial effectiveness of SWB investments and impact on markdown and margins.
-Perform ROI analysis on marketing spend for Brand investment decision support.
-Develop engaging reporting tools and enhance reporting capabilities on category management.
-Plans and controls the Brand team OOH incl. but not limited to PEX, T&E, etc
-Collaborate with country team and SEA Demand Planning team in terms of alignment between the monthly IBP and RFC process, ensures consensus between Brand and Sales forecasts
-Liaise with NTP and support the brand team with negotiations for marketing spend.
-Support in ad-hoc brand reporting and analysis per business needs.
FP&A Responsibilities
-Shared responsibility of consolidation of regular FP&A reporting (assumption tracker, OOH breakdown, etc) ensuring accuracy and submission in a timely manner.
-Perform analysis on forecast and actuals to provide insights on FP&A reporting deliverables.
-Shared responsibility for preparation of standard Finance slides.
-Responsible for corporate overheads, on the buildup of details including phasing.
Support in developing tier 1 & 2 reports / dashboards for ongoing performance tracking and decision making.
Key Relationships:
-Finance Director
-Channel Heads
-Country SLT
-Commercial Team
-eCom Team
- Cross functional teams
-Finance peers in the country, SEA, EM and Global
-GBS
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
-Strong commercial and business acumen with prior omnichannel experience.
-Proven analytical and critical thinking skills with capability to leverage data to unlock insights.
-Great written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage stakeholders across Global, Regional, countries and cross functions.
-Has high attention to detail and accuracy while working with strict reporting deadlines.
-Excellent organizational skills, good time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize different requests.
-Solid and sound knowledge of accounting and financial principles.
-Advanced Microsoft Office Skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
-Prior experience with SAP, PowerBI and MicroStrategy is a plus.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
-University degree or above.
-Member of an internationally recognized professional accounting body preferred.
-At least 7 years of broad-based finance experience with progressive responsibility in industry leading companies (Retail/FMCG).