Finance Business Partner

Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 8 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centres, an accredited laboratory and a Centre of Excellence focused on sustainability. The company has 2,000 employees serving customers across 120 countries.

Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.

Location : This role is based in Surabaya.

Role and Responsibilities

The Finance Business Partner, Operations will provide timely, relevant and accurate information and insightful analysis to facilitate decision-making of senior management. Develop the capability to drive swift data extraction and visualization, bringing visibility and transparency of key business metrics. Focus on finding meaningful insights to support continued and sustainable profitable growth of the Filtrona business.

• Drive improvement in the conversion cost and site fixed overhead vs budget and historical periods. Bring actionable insights, identify focus areas and run simulations for site management to optimize cost levels, in line with forecasted business activity. Require monthly tracking and action monitoring, working collaboratively with site teams across different functions, and create visibility with the global manufacturing team on the improvement actions.
• Drive the digital transformation journey of the finance function and increase utilization of BI tools, especially Power BI. Develop the dashboards and Power Query models required to achieve efficiency in data extraction and visualization.
• Understand diverse internal and external data sources and their architecture. Integrate various data sources for seamless automation of business analysis resulting in optimization of core financial workflows, enhancing efficiencies.
• Perform analysis using large complex datasets, enhance reports to improve performance tracking against targets and trend identification.
• Contribute effectively to annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes, such as developing templates for end-to-end budget planning and forecasting.
• Build and foster strong cross-functional relationships across business constituencies and stakeholders, especially group support functions like Supply Chain, Manufacturing Ops and Procurement. Help the company understand how the pieces fit together to drive performance and strengthen the team’s partnership and influencing skills in pursuit of growth.
• Price, Mix and Volume Analysis for Margin Improvements
• Proactive participation in various business improvement / ad hoc projects.
• Manage the overall Financial Reporting and Analysis activities in the production and delivery of all standard reporting (including templates and chart updates), ad hoc reporting, presentation materials; and non-pricing / profitability (costing) analysis for the business, in accordance with defined standards.

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Preferred Skills

Key Relationships with internal and external stakeholders

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