Commercial Finance Analyst (contract)

Beam Suntory; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company located in Singapore is looking for a Finance Operations professional. The successful candidate will manage trade spends, ensure compliance standards, and support financial reporting. Ideal candidates will possess a degree in finance or accounting with 3-5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel, and strong capabilities in creating insightful business reports. This position offers a chance to influence financial processes and support project implementations.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant industry experience in finance operations.
• Experience in writing insightful business performance reports.
• Proven capability in managing commercial finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate recognition of accruals and trade spends.
• Track Trade Investment spends against budget and validate customer claims.
• Provide insights and support for team reporting deliverables.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Business performance report writing

Proactive collaboration

Fluent English

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Management reporting systems

Job description

What makes this a great opportunity?

Role Responsibilities

Finance Operations

• Ensure timely and accurate recognition of accruals of trade spends. Monthly journal entry preparation for Trade Investment and other expenses to be accrued, as necessary.
• Track Trade Investment spends against budget, validating customer claims and ensuring proper documentation in place before payment processing.
• Tracking of customer's PO submissions and payments.
• Customer pricing maintenance and checks in SAP/V2V.
• Updating ROI template to reflect latest base forecast.
• Prepare customer ageing report and highlighting payment dues.
• Instill commercial discipline and uphold compliance standards, proactively reviewing current processes to address control deficiencies.

Reporting & Analysis

• Providing insightful commentaries and support team reporting deliverables (weekly/monthly/quarterly/ adhoc).
• Preparation of monthly business review decks.
• Support pricing proposals and update of master tracker.
• Support the Commercial Finance Team in designing reports to review promotional plans and evaluate post event ROIs.
• Update and management of financial overlays in monthly forecast cycle.

Planning & Forecasting

• Highlight any risks and opportunities and to the Commercial Finance Team on a timely basis.
• Support the Commercial Finance Team in developing and fine-tuning the business planning process.

Others

• Propose and post journals managing BI accruals.
• Support project implementations and UAT within Finance Team.
• Support business case for innovation or new business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified with finance or accounting qualification and 3-5 years relevant industry experience.
• Experience in using advanced Microsoft Excel (essential), as well as previous exposure to ERP and management reporting/consolidation systems (preferable).
• Experienced in writing succinct and insightful business performance reports, and summarizing business analysis.
• Proven experience in working proactively across commercial functions.
• Fluent in English.