Title: Finance Manager
The Finance Manager is responsible for financial planning and analysis. He/she will lead financial strategies, process improvement, and system simplification to drive business growth. He/she will manage key profit and loss items such as gross margins, advertising and promotions and general & administrative expenses.
BU Gross Profit Management- Manages the company's gross profit strategy and ensures timely implementation of plans to achieve the target gross profit.
- Analyzes and recommends cost savings opportunities.
- Collaborates with business partners to ensure timely implementation (i.e. R&D, Demand Team, SPG and Supply Chain)
- Monitors movement of Gross Profit and provides commentaries for variance analysis.
- Drives programs and projects that will help bridge the gap to reach target Gross Profit.
- Sets and governs guardrails to minimize unfavorable impact to Gross Profit during Sales and Operations Execution/Plans (S&OE/P)
Product Analytics
- Leads product analytics and reporting.
- Builds proper principles on the right level of Gross Profit for product/marketing launches.
- Analyzes product category gross profit and creates levers to improve profit.
- Partners with various stakeholder to understand the drivers of cost of the product.
- Ensures the integrity of product costing database in various platforms (e.g. DSP)
Return on Marketing Investments
- Leads the pre and post financial analysis on marketing activities (i.e. brand campaigns, trade marketing programs, etc.)
- Provides financial recommendations to ensure project targets are met.
- Creates financial models to analyze the profitability of various business model to drive sales growth in various channels.
- Partners with various stakeholder in managing and monitoring of Advertising and &Promotions budget.
- Provides business strategies in ensuring efficiency in A&P utilization.
Main Office Business Partner- Manages main office and annual budget.
- Provides outlook and opportunities in cost savings.
- Timely escalation of business risks and opportunities to partners
- Drives main office budget to ensure efficiency and target achievement.
- Provides insights to functional heads on how to properly manage their department budgets.
Others
- Performs other job or expertise-related assignments in order to develop oneself and/or share one's expertise resulting to support for operational efficiency.
Job Qualifications
- Graduate of BS Accountancy, Business Administration, Industrial/Management Engineering, Economics any related course.
- Must have at least 3-5 years work experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
- Proficient in Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting to support the company's financial health.
- Advanced in Excel Functions, Formula, Big Data Management.
- Willing to be assigned in Ortigas, Pasig City (hybrid set-up).
