Controller - Southeast Asia

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POSITION SUMMARY

Purpose

Contribute to the achievement of the Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia) objectives by providing sound business advice and counsel to the General Manager – Southeast Asia, commercial and operational managers and other subregion leadership team by ensuring appropriate controls are in place to maintain the financial integrity of the business and by developing and maintaining a competent staff of business analysts. Contribute to the development of overall business strategies through participation in the business’s leadership team. Primary activities focus on creating shareholder value through business strategy landing, pricing and cost management, asset optimization, risk identification & mitigation, resource allocation, overall product line profitability, and supply mode innovation for synergies brought about by the incumbent's functional leadership. The position’s responsibilities encompass problem solving, consulting, financial analysis, accounting interpretation, planning, employee development, sub region project analysis support and communication.

Nature and Scope

The mission of the Controller – Southeast Asia Subregion is to help provide profitable growth across a portfolio of products and an efficient operating cost structure, defending key franchise and pipeline Sale of Gas (SOG) supply to both the Industrial and Electronics sector, Merchant Liquid Bulk, Merchant Micro Bulk, Helium and Packaged Gases activities, in a business servicing a wide range of industries.

These factors require the incumbent, in partnership with the General Manager – Southeast Asia, and shares the responsibility to work with the Southeast Asia leadership team to develop programs not only to drive continuous improvement in our traditional IG businesses through Top Line Growth, Operational Productivity and Asset Management to optimize profitability in the sub-region and to develop a cost structure and associated processes for the business to enable it to remain competitive in a dynamic marketplace.

The incumbent provides financial support to General Management, Business Operation, Asset Management, Small Onsite Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain, across the breadth of the large ASU franchise, SMRs, Electronics and GenGas onsite, Merchant Liquid Bulk, Merchant Micro Bulk, and Packaged Gases.

The incumbent reports functionally to Chief Financial Officer CFO Asia to ensure functional independence and appropriate controls. Additionally, the position interfaces with the other Sub-region Controllers and BDS managers in Asia IG BDS organization, in the development of Southeast IG overall strategies, operational support infrastructure & system and personnel management. The incumbent must also interface with FBS Shared Service organizations across the globe and Corporate Expertise Finance Team (e.g. Treasury, Tax etc.).

Reporting to the job holder is one Financial Analyst – who provides the day-to-day financial analysis support to Malaysia and Indonesia business and functional teams to ensure business operation in line with the subregion strategy, required reporting fully executed and support to achieve the financial target.

Principal Accountabilities

• Primary finance partner to the General Manager – Southeast Asia and the Malaysia and Indonesia Business teams by providing daily financial and business counsel through active participation in ongoing strategy formation, business planning and decision making, acting jointly with Manager as the business interface with all finance disciplines and supporting business partner on executive level communication. Be able to incorporate the GM thinking into a finance structure to drive business excellence.
• Lead one BDS analyst to provide operational as well as sub-region level investment BDS support to sub region business team across all supply modes.
• Ensure the financial integrity of the business decision process by implementing analytical policy in the sub region, participating in the analysis, review and approval of investment and business transactions, ensuring proper documentation, managing operational analysis and reporting, and facilitating the development of the operating plan targets.
• Support the Asia CFO to ensure functional independence and appropriate management and financial controls for Southeast Asia sub region through complying with corporate policies, taking contrary positions where necessary.
• Contribute directly to the financial results of the sub region through close business support, involvement in productivity projects, and participation in key customer facing negotiations as appropriate.
• Responsible for sub region to deliver on-time and good quality reporting for Asia consolidation.
• Lead sub region analyst to support all new assets on-stream process, prepare supporting analysis, performance metrics and identify business operation risks to facilitate daily business decisions.
• Lead sub region analyst to complete all support capital, small onsite & franchise, contract rolls and productivity type of investment project analysis requests.
• Support Sub Region GM in ad hoc strategic/marketing/pricing initiative exercise.
• Act as bridge between sub region business team and other finance functional teams to coordinate communication and support problem solving.
• Support all sub region ad hoc tax, external & internal auditing and local finance analysis requests.
• Support Manager for any ad hoc financial analysis request.
  
  

Job Requirements

• Possess a broad-based business background and orientation coupled with a technical or business undergraduate degree plus an MBA or further financial qualification graduate level financial education.
• At least 10-12 years of financial business decision support experience.
• Skills necessary to successfully carry out the responsibilities of the position include big picture and outstanding business acumen to identify the linkage across different supply modes to develop solutions for financial performance;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, solid understanding of accounting principles, strong interpersonal and team leadership skills to inform, instruct and influence across multiple functions and financial disciplines;
• Managerial ability to direct broad departmental responsibilities and drive personnel planning and staff development and an ability to work with and communicate with all levels of the organization and a variety of functional areas.
  
  

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