Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The general purpose the SCM Finance

SCM Finance is responsible for financial forecasting, analysis, controlling and cost management for end-to-end SCM costs, and provides tailored key performance indicators for performance management.

As a business partner we enable fact-based decision making, best practice sharing and continuous process improvement by big data analysis, creating transparency on impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers. We derive corresponding solution through application of state-of-the-art analytical tools and business expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

•             Be a member of EM SCM Finance team to control supply chain costs. Tasks including budgeting, rolling forecasting, monthly reporting, business case creation, variation analysis and financial analysis

•             Be a strong data analyst and through big data file and system data from SAP, MicroStrategy as well as various vendors where is necessary to generate insights and recommendation for costs improvement or service improvement opportunities.                   

•             Share the result of GAP analysis and provide the root cause/clues/ views of underperformance and provide suggestions and solutions of performance improvement.

•            Be a business partner to Supply Chain Management operation team. Tasks include business analysis, project support, effectiveness study, productivity tracking, benchmarking analysis etc. to drive discussions and form corrective actions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of supply chain management.

•            Be familiar with end-to-end supply chain operational flow and closely monitor both the fixed and variable costs related to supply chain management and clearly understand the drivers behind costs fluctuation.  

•            Support business case development of Supply Chain projects and investments by challenging, identifying, and quantifying improvement potential.

•            Support Global Operations in carrying out projects from the conceptual set-up to the implementation, including the follow up on the realization of the targeted benefits.

•            Ensure transparency on business performance drivers and building sustainable “performance management culture” within the group functions.

•            Enhance and improve working methods for day-to-day processes and systems.

•            Contribute or drive global and local initiatives. Create transparency by tracking the financial impact and make recommendation from ‘lessons learned’.

•            Develop and implement adequate and aligned communication packages to present results, recommendations, and solutions

Key Relationships:

•            APAC Supply Chain Management Operation team including Country SCM teams, Inbound and Outbound logistics etc.  

•            Global SCM Finance team.

•            APAC Market Finance team and Demand Planning team including Regional and Country Finance teams

•            APAC HR team including Regional and Country HR teams

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

•            University degree preferably in from Data Analysis, Finance, Economics or Logistics related major.

•            7/10+ years of work experience in analysis related field.

              Knowledge of data analysis tools and system language, such as Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, R, Python, SQL, etc. is preferred.

•            Strong on logical thinking, quick-learner and can work under pressure.

•            Advanced MS Excel (VBA and Macro preferred) and PPT skills

•            Knowledge of supply chain management and retail industry is an advantage.

•            Understanding of the interactions and dynamics within an international organization

•            Fluent written and spoken in English.