Manager - FP&A, SSEAO

Responsibilities: • Lead the annual budgeting, rolling forecasting and long-range planning processes across South and Southeast Asia and Oceania, ensuring alignment with regional strategy, business priorities and growth objectives. • Develop financial models, sensitivity analyses and scenario plans to evaluate growth initiatives, customer opportunities, operational changes, investments and downside risks. • Own the monthly regional performance-management cycle, reviewing revenue, gross profit, margins, operating expenses, EBIT, working capital and other financial indicators against budget, forecast and prior periods. • Deliver forward-looking variance analyses and financial commentary explaining performance drivers, emerging trends, risks, opportunities and required management actions. • Establish and monitor regional financial and operational KPI frameworks covering revenue quality, yield, volume, margin, productivity, cost efficiency and return measures relevant to each business unit. • Prepare concise, executive-ready management reports, dashboards, presentations and financial narratives for Regional Management, Excom, business reviews and HQ submissions. • Partner with regional business heads, country management and finance teams as a trusted advisor, constructively challenging assumptions and supporting commercial, pricing, resource-allocation and cost-management decisions. • Analyse operational and commercial drivers—including volume, yield, customer mix, pricing, productivity and cost-to-serve—and translate them into clear financial implications and recommendations. • Support strategic projects, investment appraisals, business cases, restructuring assessments and other ad-hoc analyses, including post-implementation performance tracking where required. • Coordinate with country finance teams to address reporting gaps, follow up on agreed actions and strengthen forecast accuracy, financial discipline and ownership of business results. • Establish consistent regional FP&A standards, reporting definitions, timelines and control checks to enhance data integrity, comparability, governance and accountability across countries and entities. • Drive finance transformation through reporting automation, Power BI dashboards, streamlined consolidation workflows and other technology-enabled improvements. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or a related discipline; a professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent is strongly preferred. • Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in FP&A, management reporting, business finance or commercial finance, including significant regional or multi-country responsibilities. • Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and performance-review cycles across multiple countries, entities, currencies and stakeholders. • Experience in logistics, freight forwarding, supply chain, transportation or another multi-entity service environment is strongly preferred. • Strong knowledge of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, financial modelling, scenario analysis and business-case evaluation. • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with hands-on experience in ERP systems, consolidation or EPM platforms, Power BI, reporting automation and AI-assisted financial analysis. • Proven ability to prepare executive-level reports, communicate clear financial recommendations and influence senior management, business leaders, country teams and cross-functional stakeholders. • Strategic and commercially minded, with strong analytical judgement, attention to detail, ownership and resilience, and the ability to manage competing priorities and build alignment across diverse markets and cultures.