The Finance Business Partner is accountable for influencing business decisions and will support the management of business performance and have a strong understanding of commercial implications of financial decisions in the short, medium and longer term. This role will operate as a key connector across operations, commercial, R&D and finance to ensure end-to-end profitability management through top-line growth, margin management, cost wedge management and strong EBITDA growth in line with APMEA and SEA growth targets. The Finance Business Partner will provide financial insight, challenge & influence to support objectives and goals for the Business to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are achieved to help drive commercial success.
Key Responsibilities
- Driving accountability with the Indonesia Retail team, providing insights and transparency on business performance against ambitious growth targets specifically on revenue and margin growth and strong EBITDA growth through cost management.
- Aligning and embedding organization's global growth strategy into local markets, where relevant, by highlighting performance against leading indicators such as new business growth and customer activity in areas identified as a strategic growth priority.
- Drive key projects to boost EBITDA profitability across the business through collaboration with various business functions.
- Responsible for B2B Pricing and Margin Management to assigned business, provide complete oversight with Strategic Pricing Leads over pricing and margin management for the relevant market.
- Ensuring highest level of profitability with reference to specific technology, commodity movements, raw material coverage, customer segment and competitor set.
- Key responsibilities include pricing efficiency and accuracy and successful implementation of periodic price increases.
- Manage senior level relationships across the local & sub-region landscape; mobilize sub-regional / regional support as required to grow and innovate, ensuring that the company is positioned as the most valued partner to it’s customers.
- Partner and support the business in leading progress and performance aligned to strategy. Providing review, challenge, input & insight into performance reports and agreeing actions / changes to the plan.
- Drive efficiency in working capital which involves inventory management, trade payables, cash collection from our customers by working closely with commercial team as well relevant Global Shared Service (GBS) Teams.
- Ensure Finance is adhering to compliance, risk & control requirements through accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to identifying talent for pivotal roles from a succession management standpoint to enable continuity.
- Partner and collaborate closely with the relevant Global and Regional teams to ensure finance best practices are applied across all applicable processes, and identify opportunities for end-to-end process improvement and simplification.
- Support as required in CAPEX projects linked to the Indonesia Retail business in terms of board approval decks, ROI analysis and spend management support.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in accounting/finance/business or related area
- 7 or more years of professional experience, either in a plant or commercial finance
- Must have B2B Pricing experience.
- Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization
- Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build and maintain relationships and communicate professionally to all levels of an organization
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) (MS Project desirable)
- Proficiency working with ERP systems (SAP a plus), business intelligence systems, CRM systems and Pricing systems