Financial Planning

Req ID:

Remote Position: Hybrid

Region: Asia 

Country: Malaysia 

State/Province: Kedah 

City:  Kulim 

General Overview

Functional Area:  FIN - Finance

Career Stream:  DEC - Decision Support

Role:  Manager 2

SAP Short Name:  MG2

Job Title:  Decision Support Manager 2

Job Code:  MG2-FIN-DEC

Job Level:  Band 10

Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Manages the staff and the varied and complex financial operations. Provides direct and indirect supervision to subordinate team leaders and professional employees performing diverse roles. This includes establishing plans/objectives, and developing policies for the function/unit. Accountable for department results and for activities or projects involving multi-functional teams. Work requires application of in-depth knowledge of professional standards and precedents in area of specialty. Receives assignments in the form of objectives and sets goals to achieve objectives. Establishes and recommends changes to policies. Develops or assists in the development of department budgets and goals. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve goals results in additional costs and personnel, and serious delays in overall schedules. Provides direct supervision to others, or indirect through subordinate supervisors, and coordinates the activities of a section or department with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods, and employees. Makes employee staffing decisions Reviews employees performance; coaches for improved performance and takes appropriate disciplinary action as required. Manages employee total compensation. Provides final approval for subordinate managers/supervisors salary and performance recommendations. Builds cross-functional relationships where persuasive skills, negotiation skills, and considerable tact are required to gain support. Interacts directly with subordinates and peer groups. Interfaces with senior managers on issues related to the area of expertise. Maintains positive relationships with key customers, suppliers, etc., who have a significant impact on the success of the organization.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for the management of financial staff. Staffs the department, assigns work, reviews performance and addresses performance issues.
• Promotes and maintains a productive work environment.
• Provides daily leadership, coaching and development to team members.
• Responsible to set team goals and to communicate and monitor these goals to ensure the targets are achieved.
• Develops guidelines, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
• Places a strong focus on the attainment of financial/performance objectives, and drives both the finance staff and operational management towards a consistent focus on these goals.
• Manages the activities of the decision support staff to ensure accurate and timely development and consolidation of financial MORs, forecasts, metrics, plans, and strategies.
• Ensures meaningful and value-add analysis is performed in conjunction with this activity, in order to support bothfinancial and operational management in their decision making.
• Ensures that team support is provided to senior financial staff, to assist in attainment of total company targets, achievement of corporation wide schedules and reporting requirements – as well as providing insight and analysis on issues, risks, and opportunities.
• Provides financial leadership by reviewing, analyzing and interpreting financial and budgetary information.
• Participates in management decision-making drawing on information, analysis and recommendations from others.
• Provides analysis of investment decisions, product pricing, profitability, and cash flow.
• Develops external business relationships as required with counterparts inside the customer and / or supplier organizations and the investment community.
• Implements and supports financial processes and system architecture.
• Develops new procedures and implements new processes to continually improve financial analysis, service quality, drive cost reduction and support strategic initiatives.
• Manages special projects within finance or as a member of a cross functional or customer team as required.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of financial management
• Strong knowledge of global business environment and customers' business.
• Good understanding of required IT concepts and integrated business applications
• Good negotiation and problem resolution skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc)
• Occasional overnight travel may be required

Typical Experience

• Seven to 10 years of relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Education experience may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

 

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