Financial Planning and Analysis Manager - AMEA

A key role in AMEA Finance Leadership where the candidate is responsible for supporting the AMEA Finance Director and the AMEA Leadership in measuring and tracking results as well as converting data into insights to enable decision making, while continuing to lead on governance around quality and timeliness of reporting in AMEA.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Leading the month /quarter /yearly closing activity for the AMEA region, P&L consolidation, assessing and managing the profitability with AMEA President and Finance Director
2. Guiding and assisting the regional finance teams, hand-hold the teams in critical times
3. Critically assessing the processes like sales contract management, purchase contract assessments, product and raw materials pricing overview
4. Building, assessing and sharing the periodic regional profitability, assessing allocations, defining and validating allocation keys and managing the overall profitability from a control perspective
5. Leading the regional Budget process every year, guiding the local teams throughout the process and proactively engaging with cross functional teams within and across region and coming up with targets
6. Leading the monthly volume and margins forecast update process, aligning the sites and having numbers in systems
7. Preparing Quarterly/Monthly/Rolling regional P&L forecasts
8. Preparing and assisting AMEA finance director and president for the monthly/ quarterly business reviews, presentations for executive committee and other on demand presentations
9. Developing new insightful management information reports either in excel or in tableau and timely sharing of the existing reports with key stakeholders
10. Highlighting key upcoming events, critical volume and margin trends to AMEA LT
11. Tracing working capital and cash-flow development for the region, highlighting critical updates and collaborating with local teams to align with the targets
12. Assing the budget vs actual vs prev. year performance on a periodical basis and sharing need based deep dives and analysis to the AMEA LT
13. Helping local teams with audit related queries like deep dive in systems, explain process etc.
14. Assisting regional team in regional strategy related preparation