Overview of the role:

This role will support the Sr. Financial Controller – FP&A with respect to business budgeting, forecasting & monthly reporting.

What you will do:

Budgeting and Forecasting

•   Support in the preparation of budgets for AFM in conjunction with the commercial business department to ensure reliability of the key assumptions.

•   Control and monitoring of operating budget, investigating variances where necessary. 

•   Support in the re-forecasting of the budget during quarterly financial reviews recommending upward or downward adjustments considering market conditions and business requirements.

•   Support with the budgeting and forecasting: 

o   Calendar, and process

o   Templates and requirements

o   Guidelines and assumptions

o   Power Point Presentations

Management Reporting

•   To support Finance Managers, manage and maintain month end actual reporting process, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness.

•   Perform analysis; Prepare standalone and aggregated periodic Management Packs

•   Support and maintain minimum KPIs and Metrics to be reported on a periodic basis at the level of:

o   Divisions

o   Business Unit

P&L and Balance Sheet Management and Substantiation:

•   Ensure that all guidelines are followed related to governance of P&L and Balance sheet FS items

•   Ensure all related transaction are posted before the closure of books during each month-end.

•   Trend report and schedules should be updated monthly with relevant KPIs.

•   Review & analyze on monthly basis the misstatements under each Balance sheet G/L. 

•   Liaise with various teams to identify the key issues and resolve the misstatements.

•   Support Audit requirements both Internal and External Audit.

Commercial Finance and Business Support Analysis:

•   Support in analysis of Investments and Capex

•   Support in Principal analysis e.g., yen impact, payment terms.

•   Analysis of Inventory, Sales (Pricing) and GM by channel.

•   Prepare analysis by Showroom / Facility.

•   PCP and lease analysis.

•   Support in Strategic sourcing and cost optimization opportunities.

FP&A Financial Reporting Systems & Dashboards:

•   Understand the full end to end process of SAP, BPC and BIW system.

•   Understand dashboards using Power BI, Tableau and Alteryx resolving data reconciliation differences and advise on enhancements

Others:

•   Support the FP&A team in any adhoc project. 

•   Support in P&L and BS reporting and uploading in the respective IT system for budgets, Forecasts, Group Half yearly and Annual reviews.

•   Co ordinating with various stakeholders for maintaining the accuracy and effective accounting.

Skills

Required Skills to be successful:

•   Automotive experience, preferably with strong understanding of aftersales operations and KPIs

•   Strong planning experience 

•   Good working knowledge of ERP’s, preferably SAP - hands-on experience building Alteryx workflows.

•  Proven track record of preparing presentations for senior stakeholders 

About the Team:

You will be reporting to Sr. Financial Controller 

What equips you for the role:

•   Qualified in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent.

•   Automotive experience preferable.

•   4 -5 years of relevant experience

•   Excellent communication, analytical, written, and interpersonal skills, and proven ability to work with business finance teams and various stakeholders.

•   Established record in managing multiple and competing priorities. Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

•   Present concepts, recommendations, and analyses to senior management in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.

•   Able to identify, act and implement ideas that drive continuous improvement

•   Hold expertise in designing all kinds of PowerPoint presentations for multiple stakeholders and in various styles. Technical know-how to maximize Microsoft PowerPoint's functions, and the creative background needed to beautify presentations that drive clear objectives using “think cell” to create financial charts.

•   Strong capabilities in complex financial modelling.

•   Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

•   Knowledge of SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Tableau, Alteryx and Power BI preferable.

•   Work independently with limited supervision. A Self-starter, with a passion to act while focusing on delivering results.