Specialist, MFG Finance
Key Role Responsibilities
Lead financial planning and control for 4 Asia manufacturing sites. Drive asset utilization and optimize profitability of assets，Responsible for overall planning & control for Asia manufacturing sites. Business critical responsibilities include:
- Develop, challenge and implement plans and budgets in line with business objectives, integrating and optimizing local, product / BU needs and objectives.
- Lead Manufacturing sites monthly cost review to drive strategic analysis and optimize asset loading and deliver lowest, best in class cost to produce and serve clients.
- Ensure working capital and P&E expenditure objectives are visible and teams have actions to support deliverables. Determine business case for capital projects, and challenge capex spending in support of business goals and objectives.
- Lead and partner in decision making with manufacturing / product teams by providing value added analysis. Identify and drive productivity and optimization projects to deliver on objectives.
- Pro-actively analyze and manage actual expenditures compared with plan and ensure proper cost allocation to cost centers/elements and identify areas for improvement; drive cost-out activities.
- Provide manufacturing site leaders with financial advice and analysis in support of critical decision making support and profit optimization; provide cost transparency and identify cost reduction opportunities, assess Plant P&L results and suggest product / plant optimization strategies;
- Develop and maintain cost curves for decision making in support of asset loading and capacity utilization decisions
- Work closely with Corporate finance team on budgeting and reporting for FCC, Work with pacific corporate finance on closing support, idle capacity, P&E and operation issues if there is any and find out a better solution or proposal.
Qualification and competencies requirements
- Degree holder in Accounting or Finance is minimum, Qualified CPA, ACCA or its equivalent (preferred)
- Knowledge or experience in manufacturing and profit / loss accounting (SAP, Oracle).
- Knowledge of SABIC Finanical, Accounting and Enterprise Systems, or equivalent industry experience
- Strong conceptual, communicative and analytical skills
- Minimum of 10+ years- progressive financial control and strategic operations experience
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, short term and long term
- Knowledge of chemical industrial and dynamics; knowledge of P&L margin drivers
- In-depth knowledge of interconnecting processes for all BU's and disciplines combined
- Strong oral and written communication skills and presentation skills
- Strong ability to act as a partner to regional and building & keeping strategic relationships
- Ability to influence effectively and to deal with cultural differences