Planning & Reporting Specialist

Position Snapshot

Location: 1 Powerhouse, Bandar Utama

Company: Nestlé Malaysia

Permanent

Bachelor’s Degree

4+ years of experience

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestlé career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestlé, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Financial Planning & Reporting Specialist to:

• Be responsible for the financial planning processes across the businesses within Nestlé in the Market and ensure flawless execution and high quality of deliverables
• Ensure accurate, timely, efficient and compliant management reporting 
• Champion digitalisation and automation initiatives across Nestlé in the Market

A day in the life...

Planning

• • Ensures that a solid business planning process is in place across the business/ region in order to provide management full transparency on forecasts, gaps, risks and opportunities
  • Provide quality financial information and analysis to the business to assist in decision making
  • Conduct ad hoc analysis on various financial KPIs for Actuals and Dynamic Forecast (DF) to relevant stakeholders including Group CFO
  • Drives the consolidation and reporting of the different planning cycles (MBS, MBP, DF) across the businesses/ countries within Nestlé in the Market, coordinating with the co-pilots and other business partners (Supply Chain, Sales, Technical, Human Resources…) using appropriate management tools
  • Supports the deployment and promote Business Planning and Reporting Best Practices and Tools across the organisation/ market

General Reporting

• • Provides full transparency on business KPI’s across NiM via periodic and ad hoc reports to local management,
  • Drives the standardization and centralization of local management reporting across businesses; making full use of the available Standard Reports and Data Sets in group tools.
  • Responsible for Group Reporting (SACT, PACT, Management Letter)
  • Coordinates with NBS to ensure that cost allocations for P&L (excluding manufacturing, distribution, white collar) are in line with agreed principles and policies

Generating Demand (GD) Support, Marketing

• • Provide periodic reporting of PFME together with basic and/or ad-hoc analysis

Sales/Commercial Development

• • Provide periodic reporting of Sales and Trade investment together with basic and/or ad-hoc analysis
  • Support implementation of Strategic Revenue Management (SRM) by providing insights through developing relevant reporting tools.

What will make you successful

• Prior experiences in Accounting / Finance function (e.g. Controlling Decision Support, Operations Finance, Internal Audit, Commercial Control)
• Financial planning and reporting experience
• Degree or professional qualification in Accounting / Finance / Business
• Experience in Data Analytics/ Process automation