Key Responsibility:
Financial Intelligence & Executive Reporting Strategy
- Lead the design and development of Group-level financial intelligence, management reporting, and executive performance dashboards.
- Build reporting frameworks that connect financial performance with business drivers, including sales, margin, inventory, working capital, cost-to-serve, productivity, capex, and profitability.
- Develop CEO performance packs, Business Unit performance reports, strategic review materials, and decision-support analysis for senior executives.
- Shift finance reporting from historical number reporting to insight-driven, forward-looking, and action-oriented performance management.
- Ensure reporting outputs provide clear business implications, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Performance Analytics & Business Insight
- Analyze business performance across Group, Business Unit, store, channel, category, customer segment, and investment portfolio levels.
- Identify key performance gaps, margin leakage, cost pressure, productivity opportunities, working capital risks, and business improvement areas.
- Lead deep-dive analysis on sales trend, gross margin, operating expenses, stock movement, promotion effectiveness, store profitability, and operational efficiency.
- Provide actionable recommendations to support revenue growth, margin improvement, cost optimization, and sustainable profitability.
Data Governance, Reporting Standards & Unified Source of Truth
- Define reporting standards, KPI definitions, finance data logic, and performance measurement frameworks across the Group.
- Partner with Finance Excellence, Accounting Standards, Finance Controller, IT/Data, and Business Units to improve data quality, consistency, and reliability.
- Drive the development of a unified source of truth for financial and performance data used in executive reporting.
- Establish governance for report ownership, data validation, version control, reporting cadence, and issue escalation.
- Ensure management reports are accurate, timely, consistent, and aligned with business and finance decision requirements.
Forecasting, Scenario Planning & Strategic Decision Support
- Lead financial forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and driver-based planning to support strategic and operational decisions.
- Provide financial insights for key business initiatives such as store expansion, new channel development, cost transformation, pricing, promotion, and productivity improvement.
- Develop early warning indicators and performance signals to help leadership anticipate risks and opportunities.
- Support Corporate Finance and Investment teams by providing performance data, assumptions, and business insight for business cases and post-investment reviews.
- Partner with FP&A and Business Units to align forecast assumptions, business drivers, and performance expectations.
Dashboard Development & Stakeholder Enablement
- Lead the design of BI dashboards and self-service reporting tools that support senior executives, Finance, Business Units, and Operations teams.
- Work with IT/Data teams to translate business questions into data models, dashboard requirements, automation logic, and reporting solutions.
- Promote dashboard adoption and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
- Coach finance and business users on how to interpret financial insights, KPIs, and performance dashboards.
- Track reporting effectiveness and continuously improve dashboard usability, relevance, and business impact.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, or related fields.
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, management reporting, business intelligence, financial analytics, commercial finance, corporate strategy, or performance management.
- Strong experience in wholesale, retail, consumer goods, distribution, supply chain, or large-scale operational business is highly preferred.
- Proven ability to develop executive reporting, dashboards, performance analysis, KPI frameworks, financial models, and business insight materials.
- Strong understanding of wholesale business drivers, including sales volume, margin, stock, working capital, cost-to-serve, productivity, and store/channel profitability.
- Advanced analytical skills with ability to connect financial data, operational data, and business strategy.
- Strong capability in Power BI, Tableau, Excel, financial modeling, data visualization, and reporting automation.
- Good understanding of ERP, EPM, data warehouse, finance data structure, and business intelligence tools.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex data into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder management, business partnering, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Fluent in Thai and English, with strong executive presentation and storytelling skills.
CP AXTRA | Lotus's
CP AXTRA Public Company Limited.
Nawamin Office: Buengkum, Bangkok 10230, Thailand
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