Provide insightful financial analysis and reporting to support our Carbonates operations in SEA (Malaysia, Vietnam) on serving business objectives, contributing to profit and improving cash flow management.
This position can be based in Ipoh or Kuala Lumpur.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
In charge of analysis of monthly reporting & preparation and explanation of sales and profitability variances for the hub and of financial forecast & budget exercise at site and hub level.
Analyse hub industrial costs & identify risks and opportunities to improve industrial performance.
Monitor & propose performance improvement on Capex & inventory management.
Support the Industrial Hub Director and his team on any business matter.
Provide adequate KPI & insights to Industrial Hub Director & his team to drive the business (capex, savings, cost structure etc).
Provide information on cost structure & inflation to sales team to support customer discussions & profitability improvement and guide pricing strategy.
Prepare regular analysis of profitability by customer/product (profit pool analysis) & propose actions to improve business profitability, in link with PARP controller.
Review and validation of business plan for any investment project related to the hub.
Coordinate with accounting team the standard cost set-up and follow-up.
Support group internal audit on processes & procedure improvements related to industrial topics.
Review & validate balance sheet cleaning topics managed by accounting team.
Review & approval of customer orders, POs, contracts, Capex requests according to MARs levels.
Communicate & explain financial results of the perimeter to finance and non-finance communities.
Strong attention to detail with ability to draw conclusions & make business recommendations.
Mindset for continuous improvement.
Highly organized with prioritization skills.
Excellent communication skills with all levels in the organization.
Very good Excel or Google suite skills.
Ideal background/experience:
A minimum of Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
A minimum of 8 years of professional finance experience for one plant or a perimeter of plants, with experience in industrial controlling.
Previous experience working within a complex and dynamic organization with regional exposure is a plus.
Fluent in English is a must.
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