Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Position Summary:
The Commercial Finance Analyst Asia Pacific and China will be the finance business partner across the commercial function, leading on finance support, identifying improvement options and recommendations as well as challenging the business dynamic where appropriate. This role is pivotal in driving improved financial insights across the APAC commercial team thus enabling better business decisions and ultimately improving revenue and margin expansion.
Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting & Forecasting
Build the annual revenue Annual Operating Plan ensuring accountability is appropriately assigned and all parties are engaged
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Forecasting - Owns monthly and quarterly forecasting process ensuring accountability and accuracy with a clear plan to achieve planned results, including defined risks and opportunities. Commercial portfolio, Marketing, Opex.
Establish and embed a set of meaningful metrics and regularly challenge & evaluate the performance against those metrics
Review & analyze marketing initiative performance and provide challenge and suggestions towards improvements.
Business Su & Analysis
Develops strong business partner relationships resulting in improved insights and results.
Proactive and timely communication of insightful commercial performance information on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to drive successful achievement of the monthly and quarterly target expectations. Anticipates follow up questions and is prepared with data and analysis.
Provides robust insights into variances through volume, price, product mix and product margin analysis, translate findings and drive practical solutions.
Lead the APAC pricing target, tracking actuals and providing understanding and support to the business to drive key actions, recommend alternative solutions and improve decision making.
Take full ownership for the Asia Pacific Revenue and Gross Margin number ensuring all G/L postings made by the accounting team are correct and all reporting is timely and accurate
Collaborate with the commercial teams on new business tenders & pricing quotes, and existing business re-quotes, using business experience to question the approach & make proposals to ensure optimum pricing & margins to align with the strategic goals and a financial case.
Support the commercial teams on decisions around effective headcount investments and resource re-deployment.
Process Development & Improvement
Drive improved commercial process controls, especially on pricing.
Play an active and contributory role in key projects as required
Work on other ad hoc tasks as required
Continuous improvement attitude and looks for opportunities to constantly improve processes & drive efficiency.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
• Professional accounting qualification and /or Bachelor's degree in Finance or Business Administration
• 7-10 years experience in business/commercial finance
• Has led a successful team
• Strong communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with non-finance people.
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with a matrixed organization and geographically dispersed teams
• Possess a strong set of personal and business values that coincide with those of the 4Is
• Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
• Establishes and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)
• Owns their results
Preferred:
• Experience with SAP, Hyperion. Cognos, Power BI, a strong plus
• Experience in commercial and manufacturing finance preferred.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a group setting with little direction at times.
• Occasional travel can be expected with this position.
• Desire for career advancement within Thermo Fisher