[Singapore] Head of FP&A, Asia

What you will do

1. Asia Regional FP&A

• Act as the Finance business partner to the Asia leadership team which includes the Corporate Planning and Cluster business heads. 
• Measure and track business performance in the Asia region on a monthly basis and lead risk and opportunities financial analysis along with key business assumption changes.
• Provide monthly management P&L reports to the Asia management team at regional level. 
• Manage key processes of a) annual Budget planning with guidance key milestone and target setting and b) quarterly Forecast updates in collaboration with the Asia Corporate Planning team Business Cluster teams and cross functional teams.  
• Support Head of Finance-Asia to drive initiatives and projects by partnering with business and functional teams such as new business models M&A and system implementations. 
• Business partnering and decision-making support for driving expected performances and achieving strategic objectives and financial goals.
• Take leadership to optimize cross-functional processes and collaborate to maximize impact on businesses customers and teams. 
• Drive transformation and simplification of business processes with development of mindset to success.  
• Drive strong collaboration with country finance teams provide coaching on FP&A related deliverables business cases analysis scenario planning and simulations.
• Partner with CFU/HF/CF to ensure financial KPIs and reporting requirements. 
• Perform a standard costing process for Asia RDC operations manage control principles and procedures in collaboration with SCM team. 
• Manage Finance master data in existing ERP and for the future SAP project.
• Establish strong functioning FP&A team for Asia Region - lead coach and develop FP&A analysts. 

2. Country FP&A for Singapore/Alliance cluster

• Perform quarterly forecast annual budgeting and monthly performance reviews with reconciliation analysis between actuals and forecasts.
• Provide valuable input for decision-making support such as new product launch. 
• Work with functions to prepare budget / forecasts and consolidate them into country P&L.  
• Collaborate with Market Access function on pricing strategy and price setting provide financial analysis to safeguard gross margin and ensure sustainable profitability. 

3. Business Development Support across the Asia region

• Support cross function team to conduct due diligence. 
• Participate in Project teams and provide financial insights for decision making support. 
• Post merger integration support with establishing business processes integrating accounting systems and resolving operational issues.

Qualifications :

What you will bring to the role

• Degree in Finance Accounting or related professional qualifications (e.g. ACCA CA CPA)
• Require 510-year experience in taking a leadership role of FP&A with business partnership pro-active action and solution oriented.
• Need experience in working in diversified environments.
• Respect People-Centric culture.    
• Experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry is preferred. 
• Experience in working with a Japan-based Headquarter is preferred.
• Experience in multi-functional team projects is preferred.  
• Regional exposure is required across the Asia region.
• Good business acumen
• Good working knowledge on SAP Analytical Cloud SAP S4HANA (FI-CO module) BPC Microsoft Power BI Excel PowerPoint etc. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Additional Information :

Grow your career at Santen

A career at Santen is an opportunity to make a difference. We aspire to contribute to the realization of Happiness with Vision by providing eye health products and services to patients consumers and medical professionals around the world. Guided by our CORE PRINCIPLE Tenki ni sanyo suru Santen is engaged in the global research & development manufacturing and sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products in opthlamology. We have team members around the world using their diverse talents to unlock new modalities and drive innovations for patient outcomes education and treatment. At Santen we believe in empowering all our team members with flexible ways of working and a highly inclusive work environment.

The Santen Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building diverse teams and ensuring a safe and inclusive physical and virtual workplace for every one of our team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs role requirements and individual qualifications regardless of race color ethnicity national origin/ancestry religion sexual orientation gender gender identity/ expression age disability medical condition marital status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process please let the recruiter from our team know.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time