Main Job Purpose

• Lead a team to formulate, implement, and maintain cost and budgetary control mechanisms
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation of Annual Operating Plan, reforecast and other management reports as well as provide valuable analysis with recommendation to the management
• Support key business initiatives by acting as a financial expert
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and data collection upon management or regional controlling request
• Identify any risk and opportunity for the entity

Main Responsibilities:

1. Annual Operating Plan and Reforecast

· Provide valuable analysis with explanation and KPI index to support other Functions to work out the AOP and Reforecast on both P&L and BS.

· Prepare detail plan and coordinate with other Function to ensure timeliness and accuracy of AOP and Reforecast submission

· Present the budget and provide relevant analysis and findings to support budget approval

2. Business Performance Analysis and Review

· Proactively provide in-depth analysis on actual performance, find out and communicate issue to support Function in order to optimize the quality of revenue, costing and margin

· Analyze key cost elements including owner cost and productivity to support Function to drive up productivity and optimize cost structure

· Provide monthly responsibility report to the function and highlight anomalies and variances against approved budget and last year's actual with explanation and advice for cost controlling.

· Lead the team to act as Business Partner to work with function in order to come out action plan for improvement

3. Costing and bugeting 

· Monitor the implementation of costing system, the quality of data and ensure timely costing report

4. Investment Evaluation and Capex Controlling

· Evaluate the cost & benefit and the return of investment project

· Post-evaluate actual return of major investment against proposal and highlight the issue to the management for improvement

5. Internal Control

· Work with Compliance Team to address internal control issue which is identified in specific Function and provide advice on the improvement plan

6. People Management

· Develop a culture of quality, service excellence, flexibility, and cost consciousness

· Identify training needs and career development opportunities to drive a high-performance team

· Develop KPIs with team members and monitor individual performance

General Requirements:

• Minimum bachelor's degree in accounting/finance with related experience
• Professional accountancy qualification (CA, CPA or equivalent) are preferred.
• Minimum 10 years' relevant experience in management accounting, financial accounting, or cost management with 3 years in managerial role, preferably in logistics / transportation industry or multinational companies.
• Fluent in English both conversation and writing.
• Background from Multinational Environment is preferred.