Overview
Marketing and Innovation Finance Manager Foods
Responsibilities
- Lead financial analysis, planning, and forecasting for Innovations and their performance, KPIs for the Thailand Foods Market Unit
- Drive the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), budget management, and strategic planning processes for marketing innovations in the Thailand Foods Market Unit.
- Be a Finance Business Partner for PepSpark Business, Horizon 2/3 innovations.
- Act as a strategic business partner, providing financial decision support to drive brand and innovation performance.
- Deliver actionable insights and proactively identify risks and opportunities from a P&L perspective, considering market dynamics and commercial trends.
- Support the execution of strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with company goals and maximize business impact.
- Conduct financial simulations and provide recommendations to key stakeholders in Commercial, Consumer Marketing, Marketing, and Trade Marketing functions, ensuring financial implications are well understood.
- Act as a business partner by collaborating with Channel & Category teams in Commercial and Marketing functions to drive strong performance through analyzing results against plans, identifying improvement opportunities, and supporting decision-making via scenario analysis
Qualifications
- Bachelor's and Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related fields.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the Finance Manager position, preferably within the FMCG industry, with exposure to people management.
- Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Strong background in business case development and project financial analysis.
- Expertise in evaluating the effectiveness of trade and marketing spending and analyzing channel and brand P&L performance.
- Familiarity with SAP, Tableau, and Power BI is a plus.
- Solid technical knowledge in Finance and Accounting principles.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Office tools.
- Excellent communication skills in both Thai and English.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate across functions.
