Senior FP&A Manager, Head of Commercial Finance, APAC

About You

Were looking to recruit a Snr FP&A Manager Commercial Finance APAC to support the Asia Pacific teams commercial performance. This role reports to VP Finance APAC based in Singapore.

Your role will lead Lead Commercial Finance across the region partnering with the VP Finance and regional commercial leaders with accountabilities for driving profitable growth through robust financial insight disciplined planning and effective execution. Own regional reporting forecasting and planning processes support senior performance reviews and lead the annual contracting cycle.

About Us

Tate & Lyles purpose Transforming Lives Through the Science of Food inspires everything we do. Whether its by making food and drink healthier and tastier; continuously improving how we work; promoting a safe working environment; or making a difference to our local communities we believe we can successfully grow our business and have a positive impact on society. What is it we do

Simply put we make healthy food tastier and tasty food healthier. Our work is driven by consumer health needs and trends governments desire to build and support healthy communities and the need for affordable food and nutrition in many parts of the world. We deliver ingredients and solutions to meet all these needs. Our speciality sweeteners and fibres help reduce sugar and calories. Our fibres fortify food and improve digestive health. Our mouthfeel solutions provide texture and shelf life and make food creamy crispy and stable without all the sugar and fat. Across the globe we are transforming lives through the science of food. And we need talented and skilled people to help us on this journey.

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under the year to 31 March 2024 Tate & Lyle revenue from continuing operations totaled 1.65 billion.

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What Youll Be Doing

Commercial Finance Business Partnering

• Accountability for commercial finance performance for a large (>$500m) complex multimarket region.
• Provide clear actionable insights to Regional Sales and commercial leaders to improve performance.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to sales and crossfunctional teams to support strategic growth.
• Lead financial support for key customer and contract negotiations including pricing and cost structures.
• Deliver highquality performance reporting highlighting risks and opportunities against regional targets.
• Drive process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure forecasts reflect S&OP outcomes sales pipeline and pricing initiatives.
• Partner with AR/Collections to improve cash flow and reduce writeoff exposure.
• Leverage management information to drive incremental regional performance.

FP&A Forecasting Budgeting and Planning

• Analyse and communicate performance drivers versus budget forecast and prior year to Group Finance and regional leadership.
• Continuously improve regional FP&A capabilities in partnership with Group FP&A and VP Finance.
• Lead delivery of forecasts budgets and the 5year plan with sales leadership; prepare Executive and management reporting.
• Own the monthend management reporting process ensuring accuracy timeliness and effective review with Group stakeholders.
• Lead the financial outlook process from commercial discussions to seniorlevel reporting.
• Prepare reporting for regional leadership and deputise for the VP Finance as required.
• Translate financial outcomes into clear actions and improvement plans.
• Own implementation of the regional SIP model and yearend incentive payouts.

Annual Contracting

• Lead the regional annual contracting process to ensure delivery of volume pricing and margin targets.
• Challenge sales and product teams on assumptions pricing and volumes ahead of contracting cycles.
• Ensure cost drivers and market headwinds are well understood prior to price setting.
• Validate alignment between commercial targets and strategic plans including investment cases.
• Own contracting performance reporting and drive valuefocused review forums.
• Provide realtime impact analysis and escalation of risks.

Leadership and Other Responsibilities

• Lead and develop regional FP&A and businesspartnering teams including indirect resources via GBS.
• Coach and mentor team members fostering high performance and career development.
• Work closely with Regional Control and Supply Chain Finance to ensure an integrated finance organisation.
• Partner with Procurement on cost and value assessments.
• Lead strategic financial deep dives including costtoserve routetomarket and M&A evaluations.
• Represent the region at Group and regional leadership forums as required.
• Constructively challenge senior commercial leaders to support profit and cash delivery.
• Support major tenders quotes and longterm commercial agreements.
• Promote a strong team culture and an engaging finance function.

EHS Supporting:

You must have a safety mindset and work with various stakeholders to assist the company in achieving EHS Excellence

Location

This role is open for application for candidates based in both location:

Shanghai (our office is located in Xuhui District) or Singapore (our office is located in Biopolis (Buona Vista MRT))

What Youll have

• Minimum 8-10 years relevant experience in Finance.
• Bachelors degree with a recognised professional finance qualification (e.g. CA CPA ACCA).

• Proven commercial finance experience in a large complex multinational organisation.
• Strong business partnering capability influencing senior leaders across finance and nonfinance functions.
• Confident communicator able to present complex financial insights to ExCo and executive audiences.
• Deep understanding of performance drivers profitability and value creation.
• Highly analytical with the ability to work with imperfect data and systems.
• Advanced financial modelling Excel and presentation skills; able to translate data into clear insights and actions.
• Strong stakeholder management organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change drive process improvement and operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Selfstarter with resilience adaptability and a collaborative leadership mindset

What We Can Offer

• Base salary Performance Bonus
• Comprehensive Insurance coverage
• Flexible benefits
• Hybrid working arrangement
• LinkedIn Learning
• MembershipinEmployee Resource Groups (Professional Womens Network LGBTQ Black Employee Network Veterans Mental Health)
• Mental health and well-being support via Mental Health First Aiders & Employee Assistance Program
• Local volunteering opportunities (where applicable)

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Tate & Lyle is an equal opportunity employer committed to the strength of an inclusive workforce.