Foods Philippines Finance Lead

Role Title: Foods Philippines Finance Lead

Location: Philippines

Job Summary:

In-country scope: Philippines Foods Finance: Lead the dedicated team in the country to provide guidance to the country Foods partners drive the business and financial performance of Country:

• Drive business planning and agree next year’s financial framework with leadership.
• Manage in year business performance to deliver to targets
• Drive long term business planning using the financial growth model (FGM).
• Support and challenge business decisions including but not limited to promotion/brand and marketing investment to achieve a superior sustainable financial performance.
• Independently provide financial information and analysis in a timely fashion with actionable recommendations for fi‐nance and business management
• Develop business cases to launch new products and business models, capital expenditure requirements or restructuring cases, as needed
• Budget management for BU-managed TTS, BMI, local Overheads
• Co-ordinate with Greater Asia finance teams in matters relating to country business, and support other financial analysis for Greater Asia Foods BU or Global/Greater Asia Foods Finance projects as needed.
• Support in preparing certain reports (e.g. monthly, quarterly, ad-hoc requests for Global reporting submission) as required.

Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. MBA or CPA/CMA certification is a plus.
• Four to Five years of experience in finance roles, including financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, and business partnering.
• Business partnering & performance management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights. Relevant experiences preferred (e.g. FMCG/Finance partnering/Auditing/etc.)
• Team Leadership: Promote a shared vision and inspires others to embrace learning, experimentation, development.
• Personal Effectiveness: Effective and proven strategic planning, ability to learn quickly, handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously, resilient and determined to‐wards success. Calm in the face of ambiguity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Good command of English.

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