Commercial Finance Manager

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare including dental cover for employees and dependents.
• Our employees can participate in the Provident Fund. The company contribution starts at 5% of employee's salary.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Private Life Assurance and Total Permanent Disability cover.
• Product allowance so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands with your family and friends.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim funding each year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

Job Introduction

To support and manage the financial management, reporting, planning and analysis of commercial performance for a major global region with a wide range and diversity of markets. To support the Head of Finance - SEA with interfacing both internally and externally for all financial management matters. To provide analysis and insight and make recommendations to support decision making and the roll-out of key strategic, marketing and commercial decisions in the Thailand and Indochina markets. To meet reporting and planning deadlines and manage processes as detailed within the Finance Calendar.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the monthly management accounting and providing support for the Thailand and Indochina markets – A&P, Customer Discount, Overheads, depletions and others, accruals, provisions and releases as required. Liaise with markets, distributors, commercial owners and accountants as required, to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information flows.
• Support the Head of Finance - SEA on the provision of aligned strategic plans ensuring the Thailand and Indochina markets follow a common strategy and approach.
• Lead and support planning cycles in the Thailand and Indochina markets - Budget, LE1 and LE2. Ensure planning timetables are aligned and communicated to key stakeholders, and that key deadlines are met in completion of the detailed bottom up build.
• Be a Commercial Business Partner to the Thailand and Indochina Commercial team. Instigate and manage the monthly business area reviews with the teams in accordance with the Finance Calendar. Use functional expertise to challenge the numbers, generate insights, and consolidate Risks & Ops to Budget / LE.
• Be a Commercial Business Partner to the regional/local Marketing and Supply Chain Managers, supporting the team on analysing commercial data (market share data and internal financial data) to speed up the decision process and generate recommendations.
• Provide finance support, ad hoc analysis and meet project requirements to the regional team as required, with a focus on supporting delivery of the Commercial Finance Team agenda.
• Review Regional finance and business processes on an ongoing basis. Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and propose / implement these with input / authorisation from the Head of Finance – SEA and SEA FP&A as appropriate.
• Responsible for specific additional areas such as analysis and monitoring of Thailand and Indochina markets’ overheads including T&E spend, International Agreements. Provide finance support, ad hoc analysis and meet project requirements to the regional team as required.
• Support decision making through building a solid understanding of the range of systems, processes and capability across the Thailand and Indochina markets, with a view to optimising cross market initiatives.
• Assist with implementing and embedding the William Grant Way to help incorporate the new Regional structures and ensure that ODC reporting requirements are included in key BBU reporting.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

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We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.