Senior Finance Analyst - Asia

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A career at Brown-Forman is just like a good bottle of bourbon: unique and refined, with a bit of a kick. Making our products from barrel to bottle requires detailed planning along each step. Just like bourbon production, our employees work in many different aspects to create the best possible product. This way, our customers can enjoy the world-class brands we promise to deliver. Here's the kicker - we, too, get to enjoy this process, just one of the sweet benefits of leading the market with the world's favorite whiskey. Whether in the ground, in the store, or in the office, we hand pick all of our ingredients in order to be proud of what we achieve.

Brown-Forman Asia is one of the operational units of the Brown-Froman International division. Asia presents one of the largest opportunities for Brown-Forman globally and is expected to continue to be one of the most significant growth contributors to the company. With Japan and China as key markets, B-F Asia is composed of 19 countries with 100+ employees distributed across offices in 10 key mega-cities. From a portfolio perspective, Asia is largely led by our flagship Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, presenting a large opportunity for our Super Premium portfolio of American Whiskeys and Single Malt Scotches

Meaningful Work From Day One

The position's primary responsibilities include supporting the Asia region business planning, analysis and reporting needs on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis. Driving improved analytics and assisting the Director Finance Asia on projects such as risk/opportunity identification and forecasting, resource allocation, and competitive analysis. This position will also collaborate with the regional finance, commercial and marketing teams on analysis of the business results. Support for strategic projects across the region and collaboration with corporate and division FP&A teams.

What You Will Experience

Planning and Forecasting

• Support the annual and periodic planning, forecasting and processes. This includes accurately compiling, consolidating and submitting region plans and forecasts.
• Work with country/region finance teams to ensure that annual plans and periodic updates are submitted in the required timelines, to understand and communicate key assumptions and to assess risks/upsides to the country plans.

Financial Analysis

• Perform and assist the country/regions to consistently perform various business, competitive and financial analysis to identify key drivers of business performance and communicate these insights to inform business decisions.
• Provide SG&A reporting and analysis to the region.
• Provides ad hoc analytical support to Finance Director Asia and country businesses.
• Support regional revenue growth management projects and capability building.
• Collaborate with global advanced analytics team to develop and support global Tableau models for the Asia region.
• Drive continuous improvement on the analysis, reporting and insights within the region.

Business Reviews and Story telling

• Lead monthly and quarterly country business reviews including driving the process, templates, and presentations.
• Support the Asia region in identifying insights and consolidated regional financial and operational key performance drivers and preparation of the monthly/quarterly business review presentations to B-F Emerging International Division.

Ad hoc

• Financial and strategic modelling
• RTC and commercial scenario planning
• Other ad hoc projects as required

We Are Looking For People Who Has

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or business-related degree with 5-8 years related experience
• Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, preferably for a multinational FMCG company
• Demonstrated ability and knowledge of various software packages, particularly SAP, Business Warehouse or similar software, Google Suite, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint,, etc.
• Experience with Tableau and external data such as IWSR, Nielsen a preference.

• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills(English and any other language in Asia is an advantage) with ability to discuss financial strategies and translate into actionable insights
• Exhibit the intellectual integrity and professional maturity to provide management with objective and impartial analysis
• Ability to independently plan and prioritize multiple diverse work projects

Disclaimer:

Due to the current health crisis related to COVID-19 and the escalating visa/travel restrictions in place, we're currently unable to extend offers to anyone who cannot work from Singapore due to lockdown visa/travel restrictions, or other restrictive measures until further notice. Consequently, we will be prioritizing candidates who can start in this location by set date as expected. We're keeping the situation under review and would adjust our position should the restrictive measures be removed later on

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