OTR FP&A Analyst, Asia Pacific

Location: SG - Singapore - GST   
Goodyear Talent Acquisition Representative: Katrena Calimag  
Sponsorship Available:  No
Relocation Assistance Available: No 

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead OTR financial forecast and reporting process:
  •  Coordinate monthly rolling forecast process
  • Prepare monthly financial review (MOR) as per Regional AP and Global Off-highway requirement
  • Review current forecast and analyze variance to Prior Forecast, AOP, Prior Year etc.
  • Review actual results 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 NGT Finance for factory cost assumptions
  • Lead the discussion with VP Sales & Marketing, and Sales Managers for the Pricing plan
  • Prepare AOP review package as per Regional AP and Global Off-highway requirement
  • Ensure AOP numbers are correctly reflected in the TM1 system
• Manage the 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 counties Controlling team to ensure financial data accuracy and timely reporting
• Partner with Management and other Functions to drive improvement in sales/profit growth cost savings, and cashflow:
  •  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 the Supply Chain team to drive inventory reduction. This includes understanding fluctuations in demand vs production ticketing, driving 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
  • Tracking pricing plan implementation
  • Quantify pricing strategy impact
  • Coordinate with GBS Master Data team for price set-up in SAP system
• Drive the Process Improvement
  • Lead the process improvement through review current processes and identifying opportunities of improvement to drive efficiency and effectiveness. (E.g. Pricing, Forecast accuracy, Reporting, etc..)
  • Develop the analytical tools that are valuable to Management for decision-making and strategy setting

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in finance professional accounting certification from relevant accounting bodies
• At least 5 years of experience in FP&A, Accounting, and Business partnering
• 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 it's required
• Stay firm and be the speaker of the truth when it is the right thing to do, even if it means impacting the financial negatively; uphold the integrity and compliance principles as the core belief pillar
• Expertise in the use of analytics and visualization software in analyzing data and building dashboards (e.g., Tableau, R, PowerBI, SQL)
• Excellent analytical /statistical skills – able to perform data modeling analysis to generate impactful insights

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