Role Summary:
As a member of the Global Finance Business Partner team, the position collaborates closely with regional and site finance and operational leadership teams to drive key initiatives and support the company in achieving its goals and maximizing returns on investment.
The Business Partner will utilize data as a strategic asset to providing decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and analysis of operational productivity and efficiency. Further, this position will ensure accuracy and completeness in income statements, balance sheet, and cash flow statement planning and forecasting, as well as timely variance analysis.
The position reports directly into the Director Finance Business Partner of the Seal Business Unit and matrix into the Director General Manager Operations APAC. The scope of the role is managing consolidated revenues > 120M USD including all our Seal operations located in the APAC region supported by a team of 2 direct reports.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop the Finance Business Partner team
- Serve as a key member of the Leadership Team, regularly participating in directing the growth and success of the business
- Provide proactive business and financial support by performing detailed variance analysis, identifying significant trends, and assisting the operations to achieve their objectives.
- Provide forward-looking insights and value-added analysis to leadership regarding profitability, competitive landscape, products, customers, etc.
- Drive and own Financial performance management, including the annual budgeting,preparation of the monthly forecasts, and communication of results.
- Meet all reporting deadlines with comprehensive, accurate, complete, and responsive data
- Actively collaborate with all functional peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives.
- Lead processes and initiatives to reduce primary working capital and maximize operating cash flow
- Make recommendations for potential improvements and promote the active use of financialdata to drive business success and identify potential risks and opportunities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in financial accounting or controlling, completed with a Master's in Finance, MBA, or equivalent professional education.
- Minimum +10 years relevant experience in finance & accounting in an international business environment
- Experience with Cost Accounting in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with SAP BPC - Business Planning and Consolidation or similar tool
- Experience with ERP environment SAP S4 HANA strongly preferred
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong computer skills in MS platforms, Excel advanced, Power BI, PowerPoint
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
- Travel availability about 10%~15% of working hours.
Preferred Experience/Skills:
- Knowledge of US GAAP preferred