Senior FP&A Analyst - Aviation, Asia Pacific

Location: TH - Pathum Thani   
Goodyear Talent Acquisition Representative: Kim Tarcelo  
Sponsorship Available:  No
Relocation Assistance Available: No 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for the financial analysis of Aviation Business:
• Key financial metrics: Net Sales, GM, SAG, EBIT, FCF

• Key finance liaison and business partner for Aviation leadership team:
• Business partner with Aviation General Manager, Supply Chain team and Sales team
• Liaison with Key Finance team of countries: Singapore, Australia, Japan, China, India and Thailand
• Work with Thailand Finance in understanding Thailand cost structure and contributing to driving cost savings

• Geographical coverage: All AP countries

Job Responsibilities: 

• Lead Aviation financial forecast and reporting process:
• Coordinate monthly rolling forecast process
• Prepare monthly financial review (MOR) as per Regional AP and Global Aviation requirement
• Review current forecast and analyze variance to Prior Forecast, AOP, Prior Year etc.
• Review actual result and analyze variance to forecast
• Coordinate with GBS/ Controlling and related Functions for major deviations; understand drivers for major deviation and identify required actions plan
• Provide forecast view update on Weekly Flash Report and EV1 Report
• Ensure financial numbers, both actual and forecast are correctly reflected in the Region TM1 system and Global Essbase system
• Lead Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process:
• Coordinate with Supply Chain for 5-Year demand forecast
• Coordinate with Thailand Finance for factory cost assumptions
• Lead the discussion with GM and Sales Managers for Pricing plan
• Prepare AOP review package as per Regional AP and Global Aviation requirement
• Ensure AOP numbers are correctly reflected in the TM1 system
• Manage Month-End Closing process:
• Coordinate with countries Controlling team to ensure required provisions are created timely
• Coordinate with countries Controlling team for any intercompany entries
• Coordinate with countries Controlling team to ensure financial data accuracy and timely reporting
• Partner to Management and other Functions to drive improvement in sales/profit growth, cost savings and cashflows:

• Develop, track and perform variance analysis of key performance measurements.  This includes periodic performance reports covering areas such as volume, sales, margin, pricing, SAG, capital expenditures, AR, Inventory etc
• Provide impactful financial insights and analytics. This includes pricing trend and impact, volume impact and product/ customer mix strategy
• Work together with Supply Chain team to drive cost and inventory reduction. This includes understanding fluctuations in demand vs production ticketing, drive alignment on what’s the right inventory level and items contribute to improving forecast accuracy and etc.
• Identify key areas where we can drive cost savings

• Pricing Management
• Lead the pricing review process; annual pricing plan, quarterly pricing update review
• Track pricing plan implementation
• Quantify pricing strategy impact
• Coordinate with GBS Master Data team for price set-up in SAP system
• Finance lead in the capital investment project and CPEM analysis:
• Prepare feasibility study/ capital project evaluation for any Aviation investment projects
• Track major investment projects’ capital and expense to ensure alignment with Budget 
• Collaborate with Thailand Finance in driving optimal V-price
• Review new Thailand standard cost and check for any significant changes
• Review new Thailand V-price and identify impact to Thailand Export-A EBIT recovery and total Aviation PL
• Ensure standard cost and V-price are correctly and timely updated in the SAP system
• Issues resolution where arise:
• Disputes resolutions: working with Sales team and Customers for any claims or pricing disputes
• Work with Legal and Commercial on any company administrative efforts driven by insolvency (e.g., VB airlines, MAS airlines, and etc.)
• Drive the Process Improvement
• Lead the process improvement through review current processes and identify opportunity of improvement to drive efficiency and effectiveness. (e.g. pricing, forecast accuracy, reporting etc.)
• Develop the analytical tools that valuable to Management for decision making and strategy setting
• Small scale project management or close follow up of actions to ensure execution. E.g., regular team meeting on updates on activities against milestones behind costs reduction, inventory optimization, forecast accuracy, and etc.

Job Qualifications: 

• Degree or Master in Finance / Accounting
• Professional accounting certification from relevant accounting bodies
• More than 5 years' experience in FP&A and Accounting
• Business partnering
• Strong accounting knowledge
• Knowledge, understanding, and practical skills in relevant systems (i.e. ERP system - SAP preferred), MS Office products, TM1, Essbase
• Interpersonal skills that establish and maintain excellent relationships and credibility quickly.  Creates team atmosphere while achieving key objectives.
• Demonstrates a high level of understanding of how key decisions impact the business and forecasted operating results/cash flows.
• Persuasive and determined when it’s the right course to do, agile when its required
• Stay firm and be the speaker of the true when it is the right thing to do, even it means impacting the financial negatively; uphold the integrity and compliance principles as the core believes pillar
• Expertise in use of analytics and visualization software in analysing data and building dashboard (e.g., Tableau, R, PowerBI, SQL)
• Excellent analytical / statistical skills – able to perform data modelling analysis to generate impactful insights

Goodyear is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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