Assistant Finance Manager, Home and Personal Care

Job description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager, Home and Personal Care
JOB LOCATION: Singapore
RELOCATION TERMS: Local Terms only

MAIN JOB SUMMARY:

1. Manage forecast and help navigate the business through the forecasting process
· Manage and deliver the monthly rolling forecast process for the division.
· Strengthen key interfaces with CD Finance, SC Finance, CMM and PMT to ensure robustness and transparency of forecast drivers and assumptions.
· Provide forecast commentary, performance variance, highlighting issues and using the insights to influence course corrections.
· Assist line manager in preparing Long Term Plan for the division. 2. Analyze Monthly, quarterly, yearly business performance

· Provide relevant, timely and accurate information and review on business performance, both monthly result and ad-hoc reports, to internal and regional customers.
· Provide financial support in the deployment of strategy, such as pricing competitiveness strategy, price and margin exercise, brand investments, deployment margin from innovation, etc.
· Understand market shares movement and trends, provide analysis on the categories' position relative to key competitors. 3. Manage Brand Investment

· Manage and review deployment of advertising & promotional budget including forecasting for monthly rolling forecast/long term plan purposes.
· Utilize available tools, such as SOV-SOM, AIM, MAC for understanding the brand investment and setting up flexible budget.
· Provides advice and constructive feedbacks to marketing team regarding the A&P spends to ensure optimum return on investments. 4. Business partner to BB Marketing

· Be actively involved in any acquisition and or disposal plans by providing financial information and analysis of each alternative.
· Understand the Marketing Mix Model (MMM) study to pursue a better decision making process, understand the learning and drive the implementation based on the findings.
· Provide unbiased finance support for HPC business cases and promos. 5. Drive performance management through Financial growth model

· Co Pilot the creation and updation of Financial Growth Model (UFGM) to bring to life the strategic role of division into a sustainable financial plan. Ensure the growth model is informed by key macro and micro assumptions (market growth, share trends, innovation pipeline) and strategy framework.
· Using the drivers and priorities agreed in the UFGM, help highlight choice to be made to align with the financial framework/target.
· Define the ‘bigger picture' on performance trends as reflected in the financial forecast and help reference it to the UFGM to help highlight DRA needs/opportunities. 6. Drive process excellence, information management and simplification

· Lead the Simplification agenda for finance in the division – look for opportunities to drive process excellence.
· Deliver outstanding analytics/analysis of business performance to help the business take right decisions whilst standardizing performance management decks and minimizing adhoc reporting/analysis. Leverage BIT whilst owing the numbers.
· Constantly evaluate and drive continuous improvement and simplification in business/financial processes – improving forecasting ROI (including balance between top down/bottom up forecast), A&P budget management, information management. 7. Champion and be the change agent for any new information system and process in the division

· Understand the benefit or impact of any system and process change.
· Analyze the risk and implication to other related process.
· Drive and supervise implementation within the agreed timeline. 8. Guard financial controls

· Ensure sound financial controls are embedded as far as possible as preventive controls.
· Ensure all provisions are backed by appropriate documentation and in line with accounting rules
· Review open OPSOs regularly and close when not utilised 9. Protect information security to promote information safety

· Regularly monitor and update access list users to the shared folders.
· Review distribution of information and SOA regularly. 10. Pilot and Drive ROMI agenda

· Work closely with local media, marketing and regional finance teams to drive ROMI agenda in country.
· Own and drive opportunities to drive efficiencies in NPM, e.g. production costs, agency fees and channel fees.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
· Degree in Accounting or Finance
· 3 - 5 years experience in FA roles (FP&A, Business Partnering)
· Experience in business partnering is an advantage
· Experienced in financial planning and analysis
· Exposure to supply chain management is an advantage
· Good interpersonal skills & effective communication skills
· Strong Analytical skills

TO APPLY:

Please apply online by clicking on “Apply Online” below. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements. Should you not meet our immediate requirements, your profile will be registered in our talent pool system and we will match your profile to suitable future vacancies.

You will be able to access your status update through the candidate tracking link.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Thank you for your interest and application.

If you encounter any issues, contact Unilever HR Services at 800-448-1479 /