Department Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis (IT)

Makro PRO is an exciting new digital venture by the iconic Makro. Our proud purpose is to build a technology platform that will help make business possible for restaurant owners, hotels, and independent retailers, and open the door for sellers. Makro PRO brings together the best talent across multi-nationals to transform the B2B marketplace ecosystem. We welcome bold, energetic, and thoughtful people who share our belief in collaboration, diversity, excellence, and putting customers at the heart of our work

Take your career to new heights in the future of B2B e-commerce. Join our team and help us build Southeast Asia’s next unicorn.

Your challenge

Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis (IT) is responsible for IT supporting all consolidated management financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting and analysis. Work with business intelligence tools to extract relevant data; work with BI team members to gather data. Able to draw concise conclusion from complex and detailed data, and present results to management. Work as the finance business partners on recurring forecast. Tailor messaging to the audience. Present information in a concise, intuitive fashion. Effectively communicate with team members and cross functional partners.

• Originate and develop analyses to help executives and business leader better understand financial trends and financial opportunities (e.g., cost savings, business development, etc.)
• Leverage ongoing analysis to ensure that the company and business function meets its financial goals and make certain executive leadership is fully aware of financial results and trends
• Manage the Company and business function’s annual budget building process, including developing key assumptions, working with operating business partners to develop budgets to achieve desired financial results
• Manage the Company and business function’s ongoing forecast process outlining potential risks, and opportunities proactively making recommendations
• Provide financial, analytical and decision support for all business function. Automate, refine and enhance financial reporting and KPIs to ensure clear, consistent and impactful reporting
• Review and analyse financial and business operating reports conducting variance analysis and making recommendations to improve results
• Build and update financial models/budgets and perform ad hoc data inquiries as needed
• Demonstrate working knowledge of financial concepts and principles of business metrics and analyses, including their application to effective reporting and analysis
• Own consolidation of the P&L, bringing together data and insights from across the FP&A team. Report and provide in-depth analysis on monthly Actuals vs. Forecast / Budget to key leaders
• Produce recurring corporate level reporting and analysis. Help the senior management team understand the driver of the performance and potential risk.
• Oversee development and maintain the corporate financial planning system (Adaptive Insights), serve as the system expert to the team.
• Build compelling, clear and easy to understand models drawing on source data, with a focus on flexibility to change assumptions and scalability of model outputs and improve visibility
• Help drive the annual planning process; Support Company’s long-range planning in benchmark studies, market research, etc.
• Develop continuous process excellence improvements and incorporate feedback into deliverables. Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, develop plans to reach goals and implement improvements.
• Assisting in analysing new business opportunities. Serve as subject matter expert and provide financial and business decision consulting with depth and width.
• Stay current on retail industry trends and developments; stay current with the latest analytics trends and developments. Discuss trends with FP&A team members and make recommendations as appropriate
• Provide supervision to the corporate FP&A analysts. Coach and develop Financial Analysts
• Review and cooperate with business to complete ROI (Return on Investment) for IT related project that has to ask for approval 
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business
• 5+ year in finance experience in FP&A, corporate finance, management account, business analysis in complex trading or financial analysis area (preferably in Retail /FCMG/ Information Technology companies),
• 3 years at supervisory level with planning, budgeting and forecasting, navigating and managing a financial P&L, delivering insight-driven commercial analysis
• Provide key strategic initiatives as well as business insights to support the development of technology strategy supporting Business and Information Technology
• Experience in IT implementation project or consulting role for IT project. Understand related IT spending including Capex and Opex.
• Experience in relationship management and driving improvements in process and ways of working
• Must be an analytical, strategic thinker with the ability to effectively collaborate with various business units
• Ability to work cross-functionally, providing financial expertise as a service to different departments
• Experience in financial modeling
• Advanced understanding of financial concepts
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills backed by strong analytical skills and conceptual modelling.
• Ability to present complex financial issues simply and effectively.
• Comfortable and adept at influencing at senior levels
• Good command of English (speaking, written, reading)
• Able to manage multiple high pressure competing deadlines, while delivering high quality work
• Strong project management skills and able to balance multiple priorities at the same time.
• Exceptional and advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills and proficiency in working with different systems to retrieve and analyze data
• Proficiency in reading and interpreting financial documents and financial modeling
• Ability to work with massive amounts of data and summarize and convey findings
• Ability to use historical trends to develop dynamic forecasting models

Benefits

Health Insurance – At Makro, we care about your health! Group insurance from a top insurance company is included in your benefits—OPD, IPD, Emergency OPD

Provident Fund – Makro cares about your long-term plan! We offer 3% provident fund.

Year-end bonus – We include variable and performance bonus for our employees.

Gym Facilities – Our Head office has a fitness center, yoga room, and recreational space. Enjoy Bangkok scenery and work your body!

Attractive Vacations days – Enjoy our attractive annual leave. Let’s say the minimum is 18 days!

No overtime – We work 5 days a week. We set our own goals and deadlines.

Free car parking space – No more stress or extra cost if you drive to work. We offer free parking space for our employees.

Best Culture

• Clear focus.
• Diverse Workplace (Our members are from around the world!)
• Non-hierarchical and agile environment
• Growth opportunity and career path