Key job responsibilities
< Planning >
 Develop and continuously improve budgeting & forecasting process, financial
projections and monthly operating forecast
 Lead budgeting and forecasting activities to build financial plan, budget,
forecasts and actively monitor and adjust it continuously based on financial
performance and projections
 Actively work with functional leaders to incorporate inputs from the business side
into financial budget, rolling forecasts and refine key assumptions baked in
financial models.
 Monitor business and financial KPIs to track financial performance and analyze
the cause of the variances to improve the accuracy of financial plans. Escalate
variances to management timely.
 Develop financial models to provide sensibility analysis.
< Reporting >
 Work closely with accounting team to maintain the integrity of financial reporting.
 Provide monthly financial review materials with variance analysis to senior
management.
 Convert J-GAAP financial statements to IFRS basis for the company reporting
purpose by making accounting adjustments.
 Report monthly financial performance on IFRS basis thru internal reporting system.
 Submit monthly reporting package to Consolidation team in Paris.
< Business Control >
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 Develop and maintain effective relationship with business operations to
understand market trends and Sales & Marketing activities that would impact to
future financial performance.
 Closely monitor OPEX spending to ensure the spending in line with financial
operating plans. Escalate variances to management timely.
 Lead, propose and implement mechanisms and ways to maintain OPEX savings
and to keep OPEX under budget.
 Keep track of DSO, DPO and the level of cash on hand and look for the
opportunity to improve and implement the ability to generate positive cash flow
from operations.
< Decision Support & Others >
 Participating in regular commercial meeting with the sales and marketing
leadership in order to gain a deeper understanding of the business situation.
 Develop strong forecast process & protocol by co-working with finance director
as finance view, and share it with GM as regular base.
 Provide Ad-hoc high quality analysis requested by senior management to aid
them in decision making.
 Ability to organize and present data & financial information in a succinct and
easy to understand manner to management and to the regional team.
 Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to
feedback additional insights to senior management.
 Work closely with Business Excellence & Sales Planning to prepare presentation
materials requested by functional leaders.
 Maintain and organise all financial data diligently in a manner that is easily
accessible, retrievable and understandable by other stakeholders (in the team
and in the region).
Near-term expectations (next 6-months)
Since this position is key to drive and accelerate business growth, you will be expected
to perform the following tasks in each area within the next 6-months:
< Business Control >
 Establish trusted relationship with each team leaders to understand business
model and to capture what’s happening on the ground.
 Prepare monthly review materials with accuracy and logical variance analysis.
 Activate and facilitate business discussions to help business teams to achieve
their goals.
< Accounting and Reporting >
 Work closely with Accounting team to prepare monthly reporting package on
time with accuracy.
 Consult with Consolidation team in Paris to maintain consistency in IFRS reporting.
 Review current reporting process to identify areas to improve.