Finance Associate

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands - including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum - through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

About the role

As Planning & Forecasting Associate, you are expected to register with ICAEW and complete the three (3)-year training and practical work experience with Haleon.

At Haleon, our modern and technology-led Regional Finance Hub - APAC team, we work together with colleagues from across Finance to support our businesses across APAC in delivering the best outcome for our patients and consumers. Our new Finance Hub team in Malaysia will be part of a global network of Regional Finance hubs to share best practices and knowledge whilst working closely with our HQ Finance teams.

You will be responsible to support the Planning and Forecasting Process which includes the preparation, review and submission of in-market annual, quarterly and monthly forecasts. Also, you will be responsible to provide Value added Analytics on Actual and forecasted Business Performance in the areas of P&L, BS and Cash flow.

Role Responsibilities
- Participate in monthly core commercial cycle. Support the P&F Lead in the preparation monthly consensus forecast deliverables by collaborating with in-house commercial team for review with market finance director.
- Provide support to the P&F Lead with the preparation of the 3+1 plan, F1, UP2 & Flip on annual basis. Understand the various planning cycles and their key role in the overall corporate planning process.
- Attend pre demand review meeting on monthly basis to understand business Planning process.
- Responsible for supporting the preparation of the monthly OPEX, A&P, Sundry, headcount and cash flow forecast.
- Upload and validate approved forecast numbers into Haleon tools.
- Support the P&F lead in creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market finance director to present to area finance director.
- Prepare and perform adhoc variance analysis to analyse forecast Vs budgets, prior month forecasts and prior year actuals.
- Support the preparation of internal management reports (e.g. DRM, MPR) for executive leadership.
- Evaluate forex impact on actual and forecast numbers and validate Haleon P&L performance in all rates such as Budget rate and Actual rate.
- Responsible to monitor Innovation sales performance against forecast and support all activities related to innovation sales.
- Why you?_

Basic Qualifications:
We look for people who appreciate the importance of safety and quality and strive to continuously improve our performance and practices. We work in an open and transparent environment so you’ll be someone who treats others with respect and integrity - as you will be treated yourself.

Ideally, we are looking for someone with:
- A Bachelor's degree (Finance / Accounting is preferred)- You must be a registered student of ICAEW.- Positive working attitude and willing to take challenge.- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills- Self-motivated and displays initiative in solving problems.- Actively seeks to improve processes making them more effective and efficient.- Must be fluent in English & Mandarin - both written and spoken.- Attention to detail, good analytical and problem-solving capabilities.- Ability to plan and manage workload to ensure all key deadlines are met.

Location - this role is based in: Petaling Jaya

This position is a grade: 10

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. I