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).