Royal Canin Japon - FP&A Manager - Supply

Job Description

Job Purpose / Overview

• Takes existing data on a wide range of different financial areas and turns this into information that could be useful for the organization.
• Develops and interprets detailed cost accounting information and makes recommendations regarding the efficient utilization of resources
• Exercises discretion and creativity as to work details on assignments of a varied, diverse and difficult nature
• Assists in solving complex technical problems in areas where no precedent exists.

Key Responsibilities

• Support LT decision making by clarifying financial impact from PMR/DMR/SMR for S&OP+ MBR
• Support E2E team decision making by working together
• Provide analysis on Corporate MAC (Margin After Conversion) and Inventory balance to deliver Earnings and NCFO target of the year
• Provide analysis on local Manufacturing Conversion Cost, Non Quality Cost, Inventory balance to support E2E team to deliver their KPIs, including headcount
• Provide analysis on local Logistics Conversion Cost, to identify risks and opportunities to deliver Earnings target
• Review and prepare Journal entries for local MCC and LCC each period as needed
• Lead annual Budget process for manufacturing and logistics and prepare forecast as needed
• Lead CAB (both Industrial and Market) budget planning, manage year-end landing and provide periodic reporting to Campus

Context and Scope

• FP&A Manager plays a critical role in the organization as a support for decision making and as a co-pilot to the management team. As the business becomes more complex, having the right information and analysis on time becomes critical to support an effective strategy.
• FP&A Manager must understand the business environment, the internal processes and be at ease analyzing data from all sources to derive trends and propose action plans.
• The Co-pilot roles require individuals to demonstrate strong functional competencies but also characteristics of behavior: high-quality decision making and problem solving but also the desire to build effective teams to accomplish more by working together than could be done as individuals.
• FP&A Manager also drives a local, regional and global project which significantly affects the company’s strategy and planning.

Job Specifications / Qualifications
1. Education & Professional Qualification: Good English & Japanese language skills (written and verbal) is essential, and high commitment / ethics in mind and behaviour.

2. Leadership Capability: Strong customer focus and service orientation, and good engagement skill to interact cross functionally.

Action Oriented:

• Seizes opportunities for improvement of control and savings
• Challenge the current status quo
• Lead stakeholders to make things happen

Conflict Management:

• Step up to conflict and sort things out
• Reads situation and find solutions through good listening to others

Peer Relationship:

• Be fair to other groups and gain trust / support of peers
• Be a team player and cooperative
• Encourage collaboration

Planning:

• Scope out length and difficulty of tasks and projects
• Break down work into the process steps
• Develop schedules and task / people assignments
• Evaluate results

Customer Focus:

• Act with customers (other functions) in mind
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Ethics and Values:

• Adhere to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs
• Acts in line with those values
• Rewards the right values and disapproves of others

3. Knowledge/Experience: Experience on Financial Planning, Shaping and Controls.

Financial Analysis & Insights:

• Understand and apply best practices in financial evaluation of business performance to derive key insights impacting the business.
• Develop and implement new analytical tools and techniques to create insights from financial information.

Financial Shaping:

• Analyse actual performance to identify the drivers of that performance and quality risks and opportunities.
• Define and agree the desired financial shape and targets for a business unit with business leaders.
• Steer the business unit to deliver the target financial shape.

Strategy Development:

• Understand the regional and global competitive and business environment.
• Design and facilitate business unit and regional level strategy session.
• Drive the local, regional, and global project with effective process management.