About This Role
The Finance Business Partner influences business decisions and supports the management of business performance, with a strong understanding of the commercial implications of financial decisions across short, medium, and long-term horizons. This role acts as a key connector across operations, commercial, R&D, and finance to ensure end-to-end profitability management through top-line growth, margin management, cost wedge management, and strong EBITDA growth in line with APMEA and SEA growth targets. You will provide financial insight, challenge, and influence to support business objectives and goals, ensuring key operational, commercial, and financial targets are achieved to drive commercial success.
Responsibilities
- Drive accountability with the Indonesia Retail team, providing insights and transparency on business performance against ambitious growth targets, specifically on revenue and margin growth and strong EBITDA growth through cost management
- Align and embed the organization's global growth strategy into local markets, where relevant, by highlighting performance against leading indicators such as new business growth and customer activity in areas identified as a strategic growth priority
- Drive key projects to boost EBITDA profitability across the business through collaboration with various business functions
- Be responsible for B2B Pricing and Margin Management for the assigned business, providing complete oversight with Strategic Pricing Leads over pricing and margin management for the relevant market
- Ensure the highest level of profitability with reference to specific technology, commodity movements, raw material coverage, customer segment, and competitor set
- Include pricing efficiency and accuracy and successful implementation of periodic price increases
- Manage senior level relationships across the local and sub-region landscape; mobilize sub-regional / regional support as required to grow and innovate, ensuring that the company is positioned as the most valued partner to its customers
- Partner and support the business in leading progress and performance aligned to strategy
- Provide review, challenge, input, and insight into performance reports and agree actions / changes to the plan
- Drive efficiency in working capital which involves inventory management, trade payables, cash collection from customers by working closely with the commercial team as well as relevant Global Shared Service (GBS) Teams
- Ensure Finance is adhering to compliance, risk, and control requirements through accounting standards and regulatory requirements
- Contribute to identifying talent for pivotal roles from a succession management standpoint to enable continuity
- Partner and collaborate closely with the relevant Global and Regional teams to ensure finance best practices are applied across all applicable processes, and identify opportunities for end-to-end process improvement and simplification
