finance Business partner 2Lazada

Department:
Finance/Legal
Location:
Philippines
Department: Finance/Legal
Location: Philippines
Job Description
We are searching for a dynamic, entrepreneurial, broad-minded individual to join us as Finance Business Partner, Platform Cluster head. Be part of the team that is steering the exciting and fast-growing eCommerce revolution in Southeast Asia!
Reporting to the Country Chief Financial Officer, you will partner the business to facilitate growth and drive the optimization of platform/commercial operations that address our business/consumer needs and as well as active management in cost drivers to bring down costs.
• Establish and finetune clear drivers of platform operations, able to do modeling/simulations of the business drivers impact to profitability
• Able to balance between commercial viewpoint vs financial profitability in analyzing levers for optimization
• Ownership in improving platform profitability by proposing action plans/recommendations and drive the actions based on the agreement with senior management
• Yearly/quarterly financial budget for each platform stream upon the understanding of the key business drivers now and also in the near future
• Monthly flash P&L for each platform stream
• Month-end closing :
o Ensure robust financial month end, responsible for ensuring proper accruals for cost drivers in the month done timely
o Able to explain clearly the revenues and expenses in detail, relate the numbers to business drivers and benchmark against baseline (eg last month/budget)
o Analysis of key logistic KPIs/trend shown in financials and viewpoint on what are the required actions to improve
o Establish strategic reviews with key stakeholders
• Lead and improve process on managing claims to mitigate leakages
• On new system implementation, ensure end to end understanding impact to finance and manage if issues through proper and timely escalation
• Engage business on regular basis to drive aligned understanding of profitability performance and cost savings initiatives
• Manage and find ways to manage better cash operation in the business (COD), reduce business risk whilst simplifying manual work
• Manage efficient relationship with the regional team, initiate cross knowledge-sharing as required
• Lead and develop team capability and collaboration and regular sharing/catch up to cascade on company/department strategy and team focus to align
• Support internal and external platform audit and drive implementation of agreed upon recommendations resulting from audit findings
• Develop capital expenditure proposal with strong justifications
Job Requirements
In order to succeed in the role, you should ideally have:
• Finance/Accounting graduate with about 10 years working experience, mostly doing finance business partner and some post in accounting preferable
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, prefer someone who can work with big data
• Strategic thinking but also hands-on and able to deep dive into details as required
• Great communication skills and able to present complex issues in a simple and structured manner
• Strategic influencing skills to get alignment on proposals and drive them through
• Capability to develop simple modeling, simulations, and experience in doing business cases
• Demonstrates ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, humble and challenging mindset
• Able to manage multiple priorities and demonstrate flexibility as priorities change
• Ability to work within tight timeframes
• Prefer someone with knowledge and experience in SAP/Oracle and as well as experience in Platform/Logistics (E2E)