Senior Manager, Product Cost

Job Summary :

Responsible for leading the planning and forecasting process and analyzing product cost.  To act as partner to the business, driving great performance by producing high quality plans and forecasts, analyzing product cost against those plans and working with colleagues in Operations and Global Procurement to improve performance.

Job Responsibilities

•    Support development of Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Strategy Plan (SP) on product cost by brand by SKU for Thailand Beverages MU.
•    Manage robust Rolling Forecast process on product cost by brand by sku for Thailand Beverages MU. Drive data quality and forecast accuracy at 75% or better.  
•    Ensure continuous improvement in the quality, timeliness and reliability of product cost information and source data, both internal and external
•    Build financials models / tools to support robust product cost planning and forecasting process as well as variance analysis
•    Actively monitor and analyze actual product cost performance vs. plan and vs. forecast.  Identify key variance and underlining reasons/root cause. 
•    Work closely with Operations and Global Procurement to identify/flag risks and opportunities on product cost.  Find mitigation plan for gap closing. Follow-up on the implementation of ideas/actions.
•    Support preparation on monthly performance report related to product cost.
•    Support monthly and quarterly MU financials submissions to BU/region and Q&A, as well as AOP and rolling forecast submission
•    Prepare quarterly Commodity Template and identify/flag risks and opportunities on Commodity Coverage and review with Management, Operations function Head, and Global Procurement for Resin and Aluminum on monthly basis.
•    Support and liaise with Region Tax on transfer price setting on concentrate price and ex-factory price, and ensure compliance to transfer price policy.
•    Support ex-factory price setting for Beverage SKU (both new and revision) and coordinate with Excise Tax Manager and Government Affairs on Excise Tax Declaration filing to ensure compliance to regulations.

Skills and Experience

•    BBA and Master degree in Finance or Accounting.
•    Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and focus on priorities
•    Strong communication and people skills, able to influence management 
•    Solid technical/functional knowledge in Finance and Accounting
•    Solid understanding of manufacturing cost structure and cost drivers
•    Able to call out financial impact from the change of commodity related to Beverages business and address risks and opportunities
•    Relevant work experience in Finance, preferably FMCG and Manufacturing exposure.  3-5 years in Finance manager position with people management exposure
•    Experience in budget / forecast process and variance analysis 
•    Strong analytical skill
•    Business partnering mindset to work effectively with cross functions
•    Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly on Excel
•    Good written and spoken English
•    Familiar with SAP

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