Business Planning Manager, South Asia
Country :
Singapore
Town : SINGAPORE
Category : Logistics
Contract type : Permanent
Availability : Full time
Job description
Duties & Responsibilities
- Regional role supporting 10 markets. Direct market review scope of some markets along with functional responsibility.
- Support zone budget construction, consolidation and review processes.
- Meet monthly reporting and budget timelines. Ensure reporting is accurate, consistent with Group/local requirements.
- Explanation of financial variances against budget and prior periods. Monitor financial performance and other key indicators, highlighting trends and unexpected variances.
- Work closely with markets to deliver timely and accurate reporting with variance commentary.
- Analysis of sales performance including weekly report - highlight trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Monitor and track competitor performance (sales trends, network changes, key events, etc.)
- Review investment requests prepared by the team, ensure alignment with Group requirements.
- Support rollout of Group changes in reporting and policy changes.
- Partner with functions to improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies or improvements.
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
Profile
Prior experience in retail environment preferred.
Commercial and business partnership mindset.
Hands-on, independent and resourceful. Analytical and detail oriented.
Sound technical and financial knowledge and exposure in accounting standards (IFRS).
Advanced Excel/PowerPoint skills. Knowledge in SAP/BW/Power BI is a plus.
Strong written and verbal communication ability.
Highly agile and adaptable. Able to deal with ambiguity and stress and work within tight deadlines.