Asia Pacific

Senior/Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Location: Asia Pacific

Job Category: Finance

Job Schedule: Full Time

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The Senior/Manager – Asia Region FP&A is the leading finance business partner in the Asia region, reporting directly to the FP&A Director and supporting senior and executive leadership both within and external to the Asia region. This role is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the regional financial strategy. The ideal candidate excels at performing advanced financial planning and analysis and supporting operational decisions through business insights and trend analysis.

While Michelman’s global headquarters are located in Cincinnati, OH and this position will support executives and senior leaders at that facility and others, the Asia market is strategically important to Michelman and this position will be based in Singapore.

 Primary Responsibilities

 Regional Financial Support

• Provides financial leadership in the region and sub-regions aimed at achieving the company’s financial and operational objectives
• Supports commercial leadership to develop and execute the regional commercial business plan and works collaboratively with operations leadership to combine the two plans to create an overall regional business plan
• Analyzes financial results/trends against the regional business plan or other benchmarks and creates actionable suggestions for business improvements
• Provides financial analysis of capital expenditure requests, and reporting on capital projects
• Provides M&A analysis as needed, leading a sub-group of colleagues to collaborate on sensitive and strategically important topics to continue to drive business growth in non-traditional ways
• Monitors and reports on the financial performance of customers, suppliers, competitors and target companies in the region
• Works collaboratively with regional commercial leadership to ensure timely collections of outstanding receivables
• Executes the financial review for contracts and other agreements based on established guidelines within the company’s approval authority
• Leads various ad hoc analytical and reporting projects, as proactively identified through collaboration and gap analysis, focused on recommending actions to improve the financial performance of the organization
• Proactively identifies and mitigates risk through the implementation of a robust risk-abatement strategy including partnering with international insurance companies to prepare a multi-coverage approach to insuring for potential business liabilities

 Regional Financial Planning & Analysis

• Analyzes regional business results to identify trends and/or financially significant or unusual variances that require follow-up and suggests corrective actions to continue to improve business profitability and growth
• Leads the creation of the regional annual operating plan through collaboration with the regional leadership team
• Uses financial forecasting and modeling techniques to project regional financial performance and build plan with regional leadership to close unfavorable gaps
• Provides prospective / forward-looking financial planning and analysis to regional, financial and executive leadership
• Reports financial results to regional and senior leadership in accordance with the established reporting schedule
• Supports regional leadership to develop and execute on plans to close gaps through operational audibles
• Participates in and leads, as needed, the monthly S&OP demand meetings
• Manages and utilizes associate(s) to complete necessary duties as well as further advancing the career(s) of aforementioned associate(s)

Operations Support

• Supports the regional organization in preparing and analyzing customer sales patterns, product pricing, rebate and discount arrangements
• Facilitates the flow of financial and non-financial information between functional groups to improve communication and follow-through
• Provides financial support to other functional groups as needed

 Critical Competencies, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

 Strong interpersonal and influencing skills including the ability to competently interact with associates from other departments and cultures at all levels within and external to the company

• Excellent business communication skills, both written and oral are a must
• Must have a conversational and technical mastery of the English language with the ability to carry on conversations, author policies and procedures, and communicate fluently through both written and oral means
• Proven ability to build partnerships with other associates both in and outside the Finance function
• Demonstrated ability to self-start and seek out new opportunities to drive financial improvements
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience in the application of analytical methods of addressing business issues, with an emphasis on decision support analysis
• Proficient to expert knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and graphs
• Proficient to expert knowledge of PowerPoint and preparing presentations
• Experience with JD Edwards, Cognos, PowerBI, TM1 (or similar) desired but not a requirement
• Experience working with databases and retrieving/analyzing information from disparate financial information systems
• Demonstrated time-management and multi-tasking skills coupled with a keen ability to prioritize assignments
• Ability to understand and relate movements between financial statements

Education and Experience

• 5-7 years of progressive financial / operations responsibility in a manufacturing organization
• Experience leading and managing associates a plus
• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or Operations / Supply Chain Management preferred, but any STEM degree + MBA will be considered
• MBA desired but not required with appropriate experience
• Professional certifications preferred

 Work Hours

 Michelman’s standard work hours for this role is Monday – Friday from 8am – 5pm EST.

Note: The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to the job. They are not construed to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

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