The primary focus of this role is to work in a team to design, build, and manage a financial planning, analysis, & reporting function for APAC UP&E Finance: Note: APAC covers Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, SEA, India & South Asia
KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build and manage annual P&L budget and forecasts for selected APAC territories (covering Australia, New Zealand and SEA markets)
- Perform and facilitate financial validation processes on revenues and costs, identify key financial risks and opportunities and report the updates in forms P&L statements and financial excel models.
- Partner with key regional business leaders and finance teams to achieve financial targets and drive financial performances.
- Work as a team member of APAC Finance to play a cross-regional APAC roles such as managing APAC revenue pivot tables and consolidating regional forecast deliverables.
- Annual budgeting process
- Quarterly financial forecasting and pacing (quarterly closing)
- Quarterly licensee reporting of royalties
- Facilitate financial forecast discussions with key market business leaders, analyze and identify key business drivers, risks and opportunities.
- Perform, report and deliver financial forecast analysis comparing vs. budget and prior year performance in forms of excel financial models.
- Communicate and support licensees with forecast and royalty uploading processes using internally developed internet-based systems.
- Preparation of forecast submission templates and facilitate the submission from licensees and rendering parties.
- Preparation of presentation slides for annual budget and quarterly reviews with senior management teams
- Research and preparation of market or competitive data and information reports to uncover business opportunities and risks on an ad-hoc basis
- Provide strong professional and technical leadership, implementing best practices
- Process Improvement (financial & operational)
