Salt is hiring a Finance Procurement/ Business Partner responsible for partnering with business leaders to drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making across the APAC region. This role serves as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing financial insights that support business growth, operational efficiency, and investment decisions.
This is a contract role based in Singapore.
Key Responsibilities
- Be an embedded business partner for our APAC Marketing teams.
- Ensure the operational excellence of the Finance Procurement Operations team and systems supporting the goals of our regional Marketing Teams.
- Drive projects that help to simplify and automate manual workflows. Actively participate in system features development and user acceptance testing.
- Partner closely with the business and legal to support supplier sourcing decisions and contract reviews and renewals to build a resilient and diverse supply chain that keeps pace with the evolving needs of our regional business.
- Own finance-related tasks (supplier sourcing, reviewing contracts, creating and reviewing purchase orders, facilitating change orders, reviewing invoices, supplier management, management reporting, etc.) that drive financial accuracy.
- Own the month-end accrual process and partner with the operations accounting team to address any significant period-over-period variances in spend.
- Ensure accurate coding of expenses to provide meaningful reporting, help track actuals to budget/forecast, and communicate any expected variances.
- Review trends in invoicing volume and partner with the accounts payable team on the volume of non-PO and manual invoices, non-OCR invoices, etc.
- Identify process gaps and drive projects to simplify and automate finance and payment workflows within regional statutory and tax landscapes.
- Perform other duties and ad hoc tasks contributing to the organization's goals.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years partnering with Marketing teams or other similar fast-paced functions in a Finance/Accounting/Procurement role with a working knowledge of US GAAP accounting frameworks.
- Experience working with a high volume of key stakeholders and building strong working relationships.
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering financial information.
- You are a service-oriented person who focuses on quality communication and attention to detail.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of the Source-to-Pay process workflow, including supplier sourcing, contract reviews, and procure-to-pay process.
- Strong familiarity with regional compliance or tax operational mechanics (such as GST administration or withholding tax nuances relevant to Singapore or India operations).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
(CEI No: R1223390 | License No: 07C3147)
