Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Assistant FP-A Manager (Commercial) di Vinda SEA Selangor - Maukerja

Position Summary

The Assistant FP&A Manager (Commercial) is responsible for analyzing and controlling the financial performance of the Commercial Unit within Southeast Asia against predefined targets.

• Month End Closing, Reporting & Performance Analysis
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Business Partnering with Marketing & Commercial Team
• Ad hoc Financial Studies with Commercial team

Working Location: Vinda SEA HQ (Bandar Bukit Raja, Klang, next to Setia Alam)

Roles:

1. Span of locations: Malaysia and within Southeast Asia
2. Business diversity and complexity: working with Sales, Marketing, Finance Reporting, Commercial Controlling and Vinda Group Reporting in Hong Kong

You will play an important role to:

1) Monthly Reporting and Analysis of Performance

• Perform month-end closing activities including reconciliations, COGS reclassification, and detailed review of COGS GL transactions.
• Prepare monthly logistics cost accruals and ensure completeness and accuracy of reporting.
• Prepare monthly logistics cost reports with commentary to warehouse and logistics teams, highlighting significant deviations against Budget/Forecast.
• Prepare monthly management P&L by allocating expenses to customer and SKU level and reconcile management P&L with Trial Balance and SEA reports.
• Prepare monthly profitability analysis by trade channel, customer, SKU, and other business segments, and respond to queries from stakeholders and SEA team.
• Review monthly Sales and Marketing actual and estimated spending against Budget Plan and Forecast.
• Assist Manager in analyzing monthly profitability variances including sales, trade spend, gross profit, and operating expenses.
• Identify and continuously improve month-end closing and reporting processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

2) Budgeting & Forecasting

• Assist the FP&A Manager in setting up, managing, and maintaining budgeting templates and budget preparation activities.
• Perform budget roll-down and upload approved commercial budgets into SQL systems.
• Consolidation of the SEA budget for submission to the Group Reporting
• Prepare and monitor logistics cost budgeting and forecasting.

3) Business Partnering with Marketing & Commercial Team

• Finance Analysis - Support the calculation of feasibility study on Commercial initiatives; includes Marketing and Sales promotion activities, Pricing Review, New products/Product Upgrade, transportation model (effects on logistic cost) etc.
• Financial Measurement - Support with commercial team on post-event evaluation. Identify and continually seek improvements in business processes to maximize promotion efficiency and increase profitability.

4) Others

• Conduct periodic financial education and share sessions with Marketing and Commercial teams.
• Manage staff purchase pricing setup and support staff purchase committee/process administration.
• Provide business support for commercial projects and cross-functional initiatives as assigned.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

• Degree in Accounting/Finance or any relevant discipline
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in managing cost accounting/commercial controlling functions
• More than 2 years leadership experience preferred