Finance Manager, APAC Supply Chain

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Job Scope: The Finance Manager, APAC – Supply Chain, provides financial leadership and analytical support across demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, and S&OP/MRR cycles. This role partners closely with the APAC P&F organization, cluster finance teams, and the regional Finance COE / VBS teams to ensure high-quality forecasts, accurate reporting, service-cost analytics, and working capital insights. As a mid-level regional role, the incumbent leads P&F planning & reporting process, consolidates APAC results, supports P&F and supply chain related decision making, and acts as a key business partner for the P&F and cluster finance teams.

Job descriptions:

1. Supply Chain (P&F) Finance Leadership

• Lead P&F financial planning, reporting and analysis related activities, including AOP, Forecasts and LBE cycles.

• Support month‑end close activities related to P&F function including proposing /reviewing accruals for expedite freight, demurrage, storage, and other supply chain cost drivers.

• Provide structured insights for MRR/QRR/Forecast cycles with region wide consolidation.

• Lead finance inputs into APAC monthly S&OP/MRR cycles, ensuring alignment with the regional plan.

• Consolidate APAC P&F financials for MRR, QRR, Mid-Month, Annual Plan, and LRP.

• Partner with regional COE to ensure timely, consistent, and accurate submissions.

• Prepare executive ready narratives summarizing key drivers and insights.

• Partner with countries and cluster finance leaders to prepare / standardize templates, assumptions, and sensitivity analysis.

2. Demand, Supply & Fulfillment Financial Support

• Perform detailed variance analysis of actuals vs. forecast across demand, supply, fulfilment cost, and inventory metrics and explain key drivers

• Provide financial insights on demand forecasts, volume/mix drivers, and service-level implications.

• Support supply planning teams with costed supply scenarios (capacity, sourcing, lead-time, expedite decisions).

• Run scenario simulations for supply-demand cost / balancing and communicate implications to regional leadership.

• Assess financial impact of forecast changes, fill-rate targets, and backorder recovery plans.

3. Inventory & Working Capital Related

• Track and analyze key APAC inventory metrics.

• Evaluate financial impact of inventory policies, MOQ changes, planning parameters, and network constraints.

• Produce regular inventory risk & opportunity assessments for regional Finance and Supply Chain.

4. Projects & Efficiency Improvement Initiatives

• Support fulfilment strategy reviews (e.g., network changes, contract manufacturing decisions, stocking strategies).

• Monitoring & reporting on projects / initiatives related to profitability improvements (MIPs) and cost reduction.

• Develop and maintain dashboards for forecast accuracy, bias, customer service levels, aging, and supply reliability.

• Support data automation for P&F KPIs through collaboration with COE and data teams.

5. Governance, Controls & Compliance

• Ensure financial integrity across planning & reporting related processes: assumptions, accruals, inventory reserves, standard methodology in forecasting and costing and other relevant compliance.

• Support audit requirements related to planning, inventory, and fulfillment.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related discipline.

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or advanced analytics qualifications are a plus but not required.

• 5–8 years of finance or operations finance experience, with at least 2–3 years in planning, supply chain, S&OP/IBP, or operations analytics.

• Strong analytical capability; ability to translate planning metrics into financial implications.

• Excellent communication and business partnering across multicultural APAC teams.

• High attention to detail with the ability to manage ambiguity in a fast-moving regional environment.

• Strong proficiency in Excel and analytical tools; familiarity with S&OP platforms and ERP systems (SAP/JDE/Oracle).

• Experience with forecasting, inventory analytics, and planning simulations strongly preferred.

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