Corporate Finance Assistant Manager

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**BAT DIGITAL BUSINESS SOLUTION**IS LOOKING FOR A ASSISTANT MANAGER, CORPORATE FINANCE**

**SENIORITY LEVEL**:Junior Level Management

**FUNCTION**: Corporate Finance

**SALARY RANGE**:Starting at RM 7,000 + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

**LOCATION**:Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia

**ROLE POSITIONING AND OBJECTIVES**

This role is part of Corporate Finance Team for APMEA North DRBU, based at our GBS Centre in Malaysia. Day-to-day focus is on working with the market to deliver robust and agile financial forecasting, reporting, and important analysis, onboard senior Finance partners and key business meetings.This role requires close collaboration with both the Finance Manager and Financial Controller, the CFOM team, Regional Corporate office and heavily involve in dealing directly with senior stakeholders from end markets.

Key results include driving the monthly SOP rhythm, ensuring we have a clear view of our bottom-up financial position along with sensitivities and gap close recommendations. This role interacts with Corporate Finance Controller to ensure GBS strategic objectives of standardization, scalability and consolidation are met. You will also be required to ensure all monthly business as usual (BAU) tasks relating to planning & reporting are completed on time and to a high quality.

**Reports to**:Corporate Finance Manager

**Reporting Level**:Manage self and others

**Geographic Scope**:Bandar Sunway, Selangor

**WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR**
- Lead the delivery of financial information and scenarios required for S&OP meetings, budget and for actuals in line with the agreed service level agreements of our customers & meeting the targets/expectations.
- Drive operational improvements to better simplify and integrate processes and maintain complete and accurate standard operating procedures and support control documentation requirements.
- Handle accounting policy and procedure inquiries and ad hoc reporting and analysis requests; provide periodic customer/site training
- Ensure customer needs and relationships are fulfilled and improved through proactive involvement and interaction
- Develop and assist in automating processes utilizing innovative technical and processing solutions
- Driving a high-quality monthly forecasting rhythm, ensuring the GBS Finance Manager & Financial Controller is able to understand the latest bottom-up financial positions and cause of change in each cluster.
- Collaborating closely with Corporate and Commercial Finance team members at the end market, to drive a robust management forecasting and reporting process, provisioning of financial insights, ad-hoc analysis, and facilitating an environment where simplification and continuous improvement are prioritized.
- Works closely with other local GBS Finance teams (including Planning & Reporting and Accounting Services) and will have opportunities to work in cross-functional teams to focus on specific operational improvement and/or analysis and insight projects

**ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**
- At least 5 years of proven experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
- A detailed understanding and knowledge of relevant finance tools and systems, specifically BI/BPC, SAP or ERP equivalent
- Understand the impact of the accounting process and practice;
- Understand the platforms and analyse reports, identify issues and challenges within reports functionalities and data;
- Able to drive projects and operational improvements and handle a remote customer base model
- Attention to detail, analytical, proactive, and can work under pressure with minimum supervision
- Knowledgeable in identifying risks and in implementing controls.
- Minimum Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance. Professional accountancy qualification i.e. CA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA will be an added advantage.

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