Business Planning & Analysis Manager

Duration: 12 Months (Renewable and Convertible to Perm)

Location: Uptown Damansara

Job Description

• Planning, Analysing, Monitoring P&L
• Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, ensuring accurate advance warning for all financial results.
• Proactively carryout value-added analyses on financial data, supporting and testing information provided by global and regional financial officers.
• Assist with the development of detailed budget and financial forecasts for use in global and regional, as well as Malaysia & Singapore, Business Franchise, and Business Unit planning.
• Drive continuous learning within Malaysia-Brunei by performing post-implementation financial analyses on past initiatives and sharing results across the organization.
• Responsible for establishing, implementing and maintaining data gathering and analysis systems, including information such as: revenues, expenses, costs, investments, cash flow, pricing & profits in line with global and regional requirements, etc.
• Perform all types of financial and economic data gathering, processing, analysis and forecasts to meet company growth targets.
• Review and driving Forecasts, Latest Estimates (LEs) and Budgets and analysis of Actual.
• Co-ordination of Budget process, ensuring budgeting timetable is on track.
• Monitor and Keep track of all Risks and Opportunities for the business actively managing the P&L to ensure key objectives are met.
• Optimising Net Working Capital, monitoring closely over dues and slow moving inventory.
• Provide BPA support for business, ensuring financial analysis is sound with appropriate ROI and NPV’s for all business cases including investments and BD&L. Understand business requirements and proactively provide financial guidance to ensure bottom line is maximised and improved.
• Ensure consistent financial data and report financial planning
• Ensuring regular review and integrity of balance sheet
• Supporting preparation of local statutory P&L in collaboration with FRA
• Take an active role in business decisions by providing valuable information and recommendations, including reviewing/challenging all underlying assumptions.
• Support decision-making and controlling within the Sales &Marketing function through helping to develop financial evaluation of a) proposed projects, and b) planned or actual data in order that enhanced financial performance is delivered.
• Proactively interface with financial officers/BPAs in other country organisations and cluster/region to obtain financial best practices and in-market data results, benchmarking Malaysia-Brunei results and methods against ones from other markets
• Key interfaces include: Finance leader; Country Head; Head of Finance & Supply Chain; FRA/financial control personnel; BF and BU leaders; Region Finance group

Experience:

• > 7 years of experience in BPA/FP&A roles

• Experience in audit and/or controlling, ideally in MNC

• Experience designing and operating financial reporting and forecasting systems