Cluster Finance Lead

Role Overview

• Leading financial planning, budgeting and forecasting process in country within cluster scope
• Converting budgets into operational plans and KPI and ensure tracking and implementation
• Active participant in the country S&OP process and leading reconciliation of operational and Financial forecast
• Management reporting/analysis and decision support
• Supporting business to track KPI’s through appropriate management reporting process
• Ensuring that business leverages management reporting systems and other reporting capabilities
• Provides financial analysis and decision support for all business decisions in country
• Financial support to business on pricing, rebates and discount including commercial policies and sales incentives plan (SIP)
• Support marketing team to conceptualize, plan and implement appropriate pricing strategies, transactional pricing and rebate and discount programs
• Ensure compliance and controls overpricing, rebates and discount including adherence to company policies, appropriate accruals and accounting
• Guiding resource allocation and cost management
• Managing cashflow including receivables and overdue, inventory including channel inventory
• Cross Functional stakeholders connect and cooperation
• Liaises with accounting, taxation on critical business and financial process including compliance to policies, transfer pricing etc
• Provide financial support to local divisional functions e.g. R&D, MD, region and FS
• Credit Management
• Ensuring appropriate balance between credit management to support business growth and time management risk
• Leads formulation of credit management policy and setting up of process for credit in country
• Oversee annual credit limit setup of customers and changes to credit terms
• Oversee operational of credit management link to AR and financial reporting
• Works with business to ensure collection plans for overdue, tracking and reviewing receivables and ensuring appropriate reserves for bad debts
• Ensuring the whole transactional link to entity financial statement and taxation – part of scope of country accounting and taxation and bridging with country finance
• Support all audits – Internal, SOX, Statutory, Indirect & Direct tax
• Alignment with Region Finance on reporting and adherence to reporting deadlines

Requirements

• A professional accounting or finance degree or equivalent professional qualification
• CPA MBA
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in accounting or financial analysis
• Strong business understanding and insights and ability to drive results
• Strong management, leadership, organizational and communication skills – System orientation
• Ability to balance between business support and risk management, Analytical skills, structure approach, proactive and self-motivated
• Advance skills to analyze business and financial trends
• Strong networking capabilities and ability to work in a matrix environment
• Ability to develop and motivate talent
• Experience in ERP systems typically or SAP

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development
• Flexible working arrangements