Job Summary

Responsible for Operating Expenses related to Logistic and Warehouse from budgeting, forecasting, actual tracking, and analysis of variance vs. plan and vs. forecast as well as monthly performance. Act as business partner to Logistic, Warehouse and Customer Service, driving achievement of financial and business performance, providing insightful analysis of Warehouse, Transportation and Distribution costs, identify risks and opportunities, as well as suggest mitigation plan.

Job responsibilities:

• Manage Budget/Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and monthly Forecast of Logistic and Warehouse costs.
• Drive data quality, lead improvement of forecast accuracy with business.
• Actively monitor and analyze monthly actual spending vs. budget and vs. forecast. Identify key variance and underlining reasons/root causes, and action plan.
• Partner with Logistic, Warehouse and Customer Service to drive business performance, identify risks and opportunities and mitigation plan for gap closing. Follow-up on the implementation of ideas/actions.
• Actively correspond with dynamic production and logistic plan changes, which sometimes requires to work after working hours. Be able to travel to plants and distribution centers to meet partners and to understand business situations and problems.
• Support productivity/cost saving Manager by monitoring actual vs plan vs forecast in area of Logistic, Warehouse and Customer Service, and verifying of productivity/cost saving calculation.
• Lead financial impact justification of ad-hoc or new projects under Logistic, Warehouse and Customer Service, and present to management for decision making.
• Drive simplification and effectiveness of data management

Skill and Experience:

• BBA and Master degree in Finance or Accounting
• Solid technical/functional knowledge in Finance and Accounting
• Relevant work experience in Finance, preferably FMCG
• Experience in budget / forecast process and variance analysis
• Strong analytical skill + Familiar with BI and SAP
• Business partnering mindset to work effectively with cross functions
• Strong communication, presentation and people skills, able to influence Partners + Good in written & spoken in English
• Microsoft Office skill