Financial Reporting & Month End Closing
- Assist in the monthly closing process for the Asia DM Mass business in a timely manner, including preparation of month-end accruals and reserves, prepayments and other miscellaneous journals by working closely with Business Development & Marketing Team to establish effective spend and accruals of expenses.
- Assist to review draft P&L during close and analyze for accuracy/completeness & liaise with US or Spain shared service on all closing issues, abnormalities & discrepancies in the numbers before finalization of the books.
- Follow through Accounts Receivable dues & ensure completeness.
- Vendor payments, debit/credit notes – Liaison with various departments for invoices approvals, issuance of debit/credit notes with Finance SS
Business Planning & Analysis
- Monitoring sales & providing review of actual and early identification of risks and opportunities.
- Assist in the commercial forecasting system - provision of actual and YTD results, review of performance of the market versus target by key customers, category and brands
- Prepare ad-hoc reports as required.
Budget & Forecast Process
- Assist in the budget & monthly forecast process.
- Work closely with the Business Controller to put together the budget & forecast numbers.
- Prepare rolling forecast templates & RF files at customers & brand levels as well as date upload into Planning tool (Hyperion).
- Prepare the annual budget including working file, financial package, presentation slides & data file to upload into Hyperion planning.
Others
- Assist in developing Finance & Business presentations, related support materials.
- Assist in adhoc requests & take on new assignments, as and when required for the Asia DM business
- Assist in establishing and documenting SOP for the total Asia DM business
