Head of Business Analysis & Controlling - Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) COE AMEA

Opella; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational manufacturing firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Head of Business Analysis & Controlling to implement finance strategies and lead the AMEA team. This role requires strong finance expertise, leadership capabilities, and proficiency in advanced financial tools like TM1 and SAP. The ideal candidate will have a master’s degree in finance or business administration and excellent communication and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Finance, notably in Manufacturing and Supply.
• Able to work in multi-cultural environment and lead a team.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and financial tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement Finance M&S COE AMEA.
• Recruit and onboard a new team while managing the transition.
• Lead and oversee reporting activities during monthly closing.

Skills

Experience in Finance

Leadership capacity

Change management skills

Analytical mind

Proactive and business-oriented

Communication skills

Education

Master’s degree in finance or business administration

Tools

Excel

TM1

SAP

Job description

Head of Business Analysis & Controlling - Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) COE AMEA

Center of Excellence (COE) is an enabler to realize OPELLA ambitions. COE supports an efficient and autonomous organization, drives performance, improves user experience, and builds an operating model dedicated to our Business and our Brands.

Based on a benchmark of FMCH industry practices, COE aims to be better positioned against our competitors in the market. The central idea is to:

• Create intelligent capabilities to better serve our employees and our brands with improved quality and time savings,
• Build an organization aimed at constantly improving processes and building synergies across functions (Analytics capabilities shared between Finance Performance, pooled data scientists working on transversal topics…)
• Establish global solutions leveraging Digital, simplified processes, and architecture

COE will enable OPELLA to work seamlessly and break barriers:

• Minimizing process duplication & discrepancies across countries, harmonize business rules and ways of working
• Reducing silos between teams by looking at end-to-end processes
• Drive re-internalization of key knowledge in global teams instead of relying on a network of 3rd party providers
• Leverage new solutions to foster simplification, automation, and enhance quality of service
• Support global deployments: Design and deploy capabilities at regional or global level to reduce overall effort and scale up more rapidly

Main responsibilities:

• Implement Finance M&S COE AMEA
• Recruit and onboard a new team in hub location, while managing transition with existing team members.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and training within the team.
• Develop and execute a roadmap to organize the team by process.

Lead Finance M&S BA&C AMEA team, including all reporting aspects for M&S AMEA:

• Manage, mentor, and develop the team to ensure high performance and professional growth.
• Ensure alignment of processes with all stakeholders, including site Finance Performance lead teams, site heads, and Global M&S teams.
• Lead and oversee reporting activities during monthly closing and forecasting exercises.
• Anticipate and prepare for forecast exercises by defining financial reporting guidelines for the entire region.
• Supervise data preparation and consolidation in financial tools.
• Ensure data quality and consistency in accordance with standard procedures.
• Prepare detailed analysis, comments, and presentations for Opella management.
• Develop and deliver high-quality standard reports and dashboards.
• Coordinate ad-hoc reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate data submission.
• Continuously strive for process simplification and efficiency improvements.

Requirements:

• Experience: Strong experience in Finance, notably in Manufacturing and Supply.
• Soft skills: Able to work in multi-cultural environment, capacity to lead a team and influence different stakeholders, advanced change management skills, analytical mind, proactive, business-oriented, demonstrated communication skills, looking for continuous improvements.
• Technical skills: Advanced knowledge of Excel, and in financial tools such as TM1 and SAP. Willingness to discover new tools, and new ways of creating value from data sources.
• Education: master’s degree in finance or business administration.