General Manager Finance Business Partner

Responsibilities:

Financial Planning & Analysis

1. Supervise Profitability Management Reporting process 
2. Analyze financial performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to enhance profitability, effectiveness, and efficiency.
3. Provide strategic advice to the executive team and the board members on financial performance and key business decisions.
4. Analyze cost structures and recommend ways to optimize spending without compromising business objectives.
5. Develop, coordinate, and manage the annual budgeting process, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals.

Business Partnering

1. Serve as trusted advisors to the CEO, Finance Director, and other Senior Leaders, helping them to translate financial data to actionable insight
2. Work closely with department heads (e.g., sales, manufacturing, operations, marketing) to ensure alignment between financial goals and operational execution.
3. Support business units in developing and assessing business cases for new projects, products, or investments. (Cost-benefit analysis)
4. Foster a Financially Savvy Culture by encouraging a deeper understanding of financial performance across the organization, helping non-finance managers develop their financial acumen.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field
2. MBA or Master’s in Finance or Accounting is preferred.
3. Experience in Management Consulting is preferred
4. CPA / CFA / CMA certification is preferred
5. Minimum of 10 years of Progressive Finance experience.
6. Experience in Finance Business Partnering is critical
7. Experience in FMCG industry is critical
8. Technical Knowledge:

Financial Modelling

• Build Financial Models. Create and maintain complex financial models to Support forecasting, projection analysis, and budgeting.
• Perform sensitivity analysis and what-if analysis to understand the potential impacts on different variables.

Stakeholder Communication

• Senior Management Communication. Be able to translate and present complex financial data into clear actionable insights to non-finance department (operation team).
• Executive summary preparation. Create concise and informative executive summaries that highlight key findings and the insight or recommendations. 

Business Partnering

• Cross- functional collaboration
• See from Operation Perspective. Experience in advising non-financial managers and translating data into actionable insights is essential.