Financial Planning and Analysis Manager (Ecommerce)

Location Singapore
Discipline: Accounting & Finance
Contact name: Karthik Balakrishnan

Contact email: karthikb@caliber8.sg
Job ref: 533

About the job

Our client is a leading e-commerce brand with operations in 8 countries in Asia is looking for a talented Senior Business Controller to join the FP&A Team and focus on business partnering and FP&A responsibilities. The Senior Business Controller will act as a key advisor to the business unit leaders on a number of strategic, commercial and financial elements. Leveraging strong business acumen, analytical skills and financial management skills. The candidate will lead in-depth analysis to help strategic decisions.

The role is based in our Singapore office.

Responsibilities

Business Partnering

  • Provide business intelligence derived from analysis of financial KPI and trends of different business segments; Provide senior management with insightful recommendation, planning and reporting support; as required, drive implementation of relevant recommendations; Drive the strategy with exposure to all aspects of the business to implement cost reduction initiatives

  • Establish and evaluate profit plan; explore investment opportunities

  • Coordinate with other members of the finance team to generate and review relevant financial information and forecasts

  • Build detailed financial models to evaluate performance under various scenarios and to analyse impact of different business options

  • Act as key business partner to the Operations team, supporting key projects especially related to supply chain, production and payments

  • Design and review financial models to analyse strategic business options and opportunities

FP&A

  • Deliver meaningful, accurate and timely reporting & analysis on functional financial performance, thereby supporting functional MT in making fact-based, financially sound decisions. Ensures quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in our systems, enabling a single source of truth

  • Support in providing forward looking estimates of key metrics and departmental performance

  • Pro-actively support execution of financial planning by preparing and supporting performance and strategy meetings of relevant stakeholder

  • Pro-actively support strategy execution by delivering meaningful, accurate and timely reporting & analysis on business performance

  • Supports the functional leaders in adhering to their budget by means of monitoring, projecting, reporting and controlling

  • Analyzes and reports on business performance by means of : Monthly performance, product/market/customer/integral profitability

  • Identifies risks and opportunities.

  • Forecasting, Strategic Review, cost control, Target Setting / Remuneration, Pricing/margin analysis, etc

Requirements

  • Bachelor from a Top tier university is required

  • 6-10 years of experience with exposure to business partnering and analytical roles

  • Strong financial analysis skills

  • Deep understanding of financial planning and forecasting

  • Self-starter with good communication and project management skills

  • Strong excel modeling skills, advanced IT skills preferred

  • Ability to structure data in actionable recommendations

  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence effectively with business partners

  • Organized, strategically focused, detail-oriented, self-starter and able to deal with ambiguity.

  • Exhibit Strong work ethic, critical thinking, initiative and resourcefulness

  • Experience in e-commerce, Logistics, Fashion or other fast-paced consumer-oriented businesses preferred