Danone Specialized Nutrition South East Asia is seeking for SEA Head of Financial Planning & Analysis. With our global presence, brands and business and our mission of bringing health through food to as many people as possible; we believe that people growth is a key asset to reach a sustainable business performance.
To succeed in this journey, we're looking for the right talent and personalities eager to bring their energy and ideas to a meaningful project. Take this opportunity to GROW together and experience a culture that empowers you to express your ideas and share what you're passionate about!

1. Drive performance across SEA (45%)
• Responsible for the animation & driving performance across all P&L lines, & OFCF.
• Responsible & accountable for closing, forecast & controlling vs budget of FOH.
• Lead & animate performance via meetings: GPS, 5X Workshops, F2F meetings with countries, Cash Meetings.
• Prepare presentation, report, data, discussion points for the meetings to drive results.
• Identify gaps of actuals/forecast vs targets, and provide recommendation, drive discussions & mitigation, action steps to reach targets.
• Understand key drivers of topline, profitability for each MBU.
• Drive resource allocation recommendation.
• Drive efficiency via 5X Workshop, tracking, sharing of ideas, ROI analysis.
2. Bridge between Market Business Units (MBUs) & AMEA zone (45%)
• Prepare SEA monthly Rolling Forecast (RF) P&L from Gross Sales to Net Profit with detail for assigned MBU (country).
• Ensure quality submission from country to enable quality submission to AMEA.
Convert GPS P&L provided by MBU Finance team into SEA Rolling Forecast P&L for package submission to Regional Business Unit. 
• Prepare SEA RF Brand / Customer P&L from Gross Sales to Profit before Tax (ROP).
• Prepare SEA Financial Database and Financial Dashboard for Management team.
• Prepare SEA RF Reporting and Analysis with detail for MBU includes ROP bridge, Net Sales Variance Analysis, A&P By Nature, and upon requests from management / Regional Business Unit (RBU).
• Prepare SEA BPC/Magnitude package submission.
• Validate and Consolidate Risks & Opportunities (R&O) in RF.
• Be SEA Finance Contact point for RBU on any queries or support required.
• Prepare SEA report for month end Pre-closing review.
• Liaise with MBU Commercial Finance on monthly Topline Trend and Actual Landing for SEA Consolidation and Submission.
• Prepare and consolidate commentary of variance between actual vs RF.
• Ensure SEA actual closing of financial results is in line with RF and with variances explained.
• Prepare SEA month end reporting package (NS Variance, Brand/Channel result, ROP Bridge) to be submitted in BPC/Magnitude for RBU consolidation with MBU details 
• Prepare SEA Month End Consolidation deck for RBU.
3. Support Long term sustainable growth (10%)
• Involve in yearly strategy plan exercise.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance or professional qualification such ACCA, CPA, CIMA, ICAEW.

• Masters or MBA is a plus.

• At least 10 years of experience in FP&A/Cash management or more.

• Experience from FMCG and MNC.

• Good team player and results orientated.

• Proven ability in multi-tasking, prioritizing workload, high attention to detail, follow-through and meticulous (mandatory).

• Technically skilled and mathematically inclined with a passion at crunching numbers; and thereafter the ability to convey stories from the numbers is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively engage with numerous stakeholders to understand competing requirements, influence outcomes and deliver effective services.

• Highly independent and resourceful.

• Strong influencing ability and drive to win multi-functional collaborations.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

• High level of Commercial & Business Acumen coupled with common sense.

Danone is a world leading food company built on three business lines; Specialized Nutrition, Waters and Fresh Dairy Products. Danone’s mission is bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy planet, and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

Danone is committed to create and live an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society.

We commit to foster an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation

We believe that our differences will make the difference

For more information, please visit our website at https://careers.danone.com/sea/en/home.html

What's next
Willing to start your meaningful journey? Hit the APPLY button! or you can contact us:
Pimparin Limpachote (Pim)
SEA Talent Acquisition Manager, DANONE SEA - HR Central Pool
Email : Pimparin.Limpachote@danone.com