Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

SCM finance is responsible for financial forecasting, analysis, controlling and cost management for end to end SCM costs, and provides tailored key performance indicators for performance management.

As a business partner, we enable fact based decision making, best practice sharing and continuous process improvement by big data analysis, creating transparency on impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers. We derive corresponding solution through application of state of the analytical tools and business expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be a member of GCA SCM finance team to manage supply chain costs. Tasks including budgeting, rolling forecasting, monthly reporting, variation analysis, financial analysis. Main focus are 1) GCA level SCM reporting consolidation; 2) GCA DC Operational costs controlling.
• Be a strong business partner to GCM SCM team, build good knowledge end to end understanding of SCM operation and costs, drive both strategic conversation and operational improvement. Tasks include business analysis, project support, effectiveness study, productivity tracking, benchmarking analysis etc.

• Supporting overall GCA network set up with business cases and financial simulation.
• Be a strong data analyst and through big data file and system data from Omni-hub, warehouse management system, transportation management system, labor management system to generate insights and recommendations for costs improvement or service improvement opportunities.
• Continuously improve the tools and process on financial reporting and analysis by introducing new solutions (such as RPA, BI tools etc.).
• Support business case development of Supply Chain projects and investments and follow through implementation and ensure deliverables are on track.

Key Relationships:

• SVP, SCM GCA
• Senior management team in SCM(DC, Transportation, OBF, SCD etc.)
• Corporate and GOPS Finance Team
• Commerical Finance Controller
• Global SCM Finance

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• University degree preferably in from Data Analysis, Finance, Economics, IT or Logistics related major.
• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• Result orientated and pro-active with a high degree of customer orientation
• 5+ years of work experience in analysis related field.
• Advanced analytical skills in order to synthesize complex data and develop innovative solutions
• Strong Financial Planning and Analysis skills and solid experiences on business partnering
• Knowledge of data analysis tools and system language. For example, BI tools (Power BI or Tableau or MicroStrategy etc.) and language R or Python or SQL, etc. is strongly preferred.
• Strong on logical thinking, quick-learner and can work under pressure.
• Advanced MS Excel (Power Pivot, VBA or Macro preferred) and PPT skills
• Project management skills
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Knowledge of fast-moving consumer goods, retail industry is an advantage