Senior Finance Manager, Distributor Markets

As the Senior Finance Manager, you will act as a strategic partner to the Director of Business Alliance and ASEAN FP&A lead, providing expert decision support and financial planning & analysis, proactively identifying improvement opportunities. This position provides excellent development opportunities and high level of interaction and exposure to the ASEAN management team.
Major Responsibilities:
• Financial Planning & Analysis – Forecasting Cycles (Plan/LBE/ LRP) for the distributor markets (Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia).
Partner closely with the Director of Business Alliance to develop financial plan for the distributor market. Consolidate, review and analyze schedules for Plans, LRP (Long Range Planning) and LBE’s (Latest Best Estimates), providing succinct and relevant commentary when required.
Lead and coordinate Distributor Market forecasting cycles – Plan, Monthly LBE and LRP and ensure alignment with guidance from Global HQ.
Ensure all financials are reasonable with well supported documentation and clearly written commentaries.
Develop narratives and other materials for senior managements’ presentation/meetings.
• Monthly Regional S&OP Process
Coordinate, maintain and drive an efficient monthly S&OP meeting process with the local affiliate teams and Area supply chain team, assess and challenge financials from an independent view to ensure financials are well supported through well defended assumptions including in-mkt, to-mkt and inventory levels.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis – Actuals Reporting
Lead preparation of financial reporting and dashboards and drive provision of real time data.
Effectively and clearly communicate results including sales and expenses with proper variance analysis and commentaries to Area and senior management.
• Subject matter expert
Subject matter expert for all financial systems, solid understanding of AbbVie methodology to calculate price variance and exchange variance, and be able to train and support affiliates’ finance teams when required.
• Projects:
Lead or work on special projects as directed by ASEAN FP&A lead, including but not limited to:
Financial Planning, reporting & Analysis for ASEAN - Plan/LRP/LBE/management report
Monthly ASEAN S&OP process.
Develop ad-hoc analysis and relevant financial information to facilitate senior management’s decisions in commercial strategies and resource allocations.
Continuously identify and recommend areas for improvements. Drive change management and implement initiatives to optimize and automate processes.
Lead ad-hoc strategic initiatives and Corporate/ Area/region projects.
Education & Experience Required:
Undergraduate Degree in a Finance related field, either Finance/Accounting.
Minimum prior experience of +5 years in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance within the Pharma/Medical Device industry.
Experienced in working within a matrix, MNC environment.
Excellent Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI skills and being conversant with various systems SAP, BPC (SAP business planning and consolidation) and the various Microsoft applications.
Essential Skills & Capabilities:
A strong self-starter with excellent work ethics, communication/interpersonal skills and has ability to influence and manage multiple stakeholders across all organization levels.
Works in a highly collaborative and customer-oriented manner.
Have an inquisitive, highly analytical, and strategic mindset. Drive innovative and creative solutions to resolve challenging issues.
Ability to manage large datasets and multiple priorities simultaneously and efficiently. Understand the time sensitivity of matters and deliver on time.
Enjoy working in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

Skills
Power BI, Excel, Accounting, SAP, Documentation

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid