Financial Planning and Analysis and Business Controller (CPA or CMA)
Makati, Metro Manila · Accounting/Finance
Job Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis: long range plan, budget and forecast processes for the cluster/country, target setting, resource and challenge allocation, and monthly financial performance monitoring
Business Controller: support the business units in setting strategy, decision making, provide insights & options that drive enhanced value creation, play part in the bid management process and help the business to achieve targets through relevant and timely monitoring of results
Local Reporting: monthly Cost allocation, Day 2 result analysis commentary for the Managing Director with various variation and explanation on variances, monthly Dashboard for MD, revenue reports to Line of Business for revenue comments, balance sheet review, deployment of Quality Management Systems within Finance
Long Range Forecasting and Budgeting: lead the planning process, define and validate the set of key information to be planned and monitored, coordinate with the Business controllers for forecast reporting to SEAP, validate the forecast and reasons for variation against the trend, ensure an accurate intra forecast based upon revenues, margins and customer figures with the help of review with the Business Controllers, validate and compile Budgeting activities as per Group reporting and Local Reporting requirements
Finance Responsibilities: group reporting requirements, identify loss makers and devising actions to bring in green, forecast monitoring and maintain accuracy against actual delivered, facilitate Budget completion exercise
Business Partner Support: provide strategic input and financial support to commercial & operating issues (pricing, etc.), track and report financial information and identify activities which are below the required performance level and bring changes to improve them; support the on-going review & maintenance of an adequate operational control environment over financial items with the SBU managers e.g. over site rental costs, customer credits etc.
Business Cases: gather all inputs from commercial & technical departments & external references, review and challenge business case, present trade-offs and rank alternatives, prepare CAPEX proposal and track the timely execution with deliverables, negotiate with external stakeholders like suppliers and clients
Target Setting, Planning, Performance Management & Monitoring: monitor business unit performance against targets, support business to identify, analyse, validate and implement remedy actions
Finance Support to Bid Management: support ad-hoc analysis to develop revenues, margins and return on investments
Qualifications:
Graduate of Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy
A CPA or CMA
Minimum 10 years of experience in a financial accounting or financial management role
Strong people management experience
Able to lead and manage a number of projects at any one time
Ability to prioritise, work on tight deadlines with a number of competing demands