Strategic Procurement Finance Partner

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SINGAPORE PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric Singapore is seeking a seasoned Purchasing Business Finance Partner to join the EA Procurement leadership team. You will shape strategy, target setting, and performance reviews while challenging supplier productivity, quality and delivery.

You will interact with diverse stakeholders across GSC Regions, business units and corporate functions to promote financial awareness and drive efficiency and cost control.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Finance Business Partner.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Accounting, Engineering, IT or equivalent.
• Digital native, with proven experience in deploying digital automation to deliver prescriptive and predictive analytics for business performance insights.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to organize, summarize and articulate complex data for decision making.
• Proficient in English, oral and written.
• Passion for continuous improvement and change management.
• Ability to build credibility and animate networks outside functional area.

Responsibilities

• Animate Annual Procurement Operational Planning process (APOP) ensuring it supports the direct material productivity and base cost targets for the Y+1.
• Challenge Global Markets, BU Procurement and GSC Region Clusters to set targets consistent with the requirements of the Procurement Region target.
• Animate quarterly rolling forecast process for productivity and base cost to enable identification of gaps to target.
• Drive productivity Short Interval Management (SIM) meetings to identify, prioritize, fund and track actions to close gaps to target.
• Take ownership of the productivity pipeline tracking process and tools (iSave, Prism, etc) for GSC International EA, working with buyers and GSC Finance to ensure that productivity calculation rules are deployed effectively and consistently.
• Take ownership of the raw material inflation impact process and tool (RMI) for the GSC International EA perimeter ensuring that inflation impacts are appropriately recorded
• Leverage the BVD portal to evaluate financial health of suppliers in the GSC International EA perimeter and work as part of the team which drives mitigation actions in cases of identified risk.
• Take ownership of the cash improvement actions together with the Cash champion of the Region
• Work with GSC International EA procurement, Category managers and global network of controllers to ensure all relevant Key Internal Controls are implemented and are operating effectively
• Manage transversal projects for Global Procurement Finance as required

Skills

Analytical skills

Digital automation

English proficiency

Change management

Stakeholder management

Networking

Education

Finance degree

Accounting degree

Engineering degree

IT degree

Job description

Schneider Electric Singapore is seeking a seasoned Purchasing Business Finance Partner to join the EA Procurement leadership team. You will shape strategy, target setting, and performance reviews while challenging supplier productivity, quality and delivery.

You will interact with diverse stakeholders across GSC Regions, business units and corporate functions to promote financial awareness and drive efficiency and cost control.