Asst Commercial Finance Manager
15 Oct 2026Job Description:
1. Deliver high quality financial analysis for product category, brand, and market using data to deliver commercially relevant insights.
2. Perform advanced financial modelling, profitability analysis, monitoring business issues and impact to the bottom line, as well as analyzing proposed introduction of new products and actionable insights is expected.
3. Collaborate with business directors to track business goals, prospects/pipelines and client profitability, and provide timely and relevant reporting and insights in these areas to the business.
4. Performing monthly variance analysis of financial results, review with commercial business leaders to ensure understanding of the drivers and corresponding risk, controlling of selling and distribution expenses.
5. Prepare and manage of budgets and rolling forecasts (sales and selling expenses) and management of business reviews of actuals vs forecasts.
6. Managing customer’s contracts, liaison with Legal Counsel and Business Directors, and also managing contracted sales targets, incentive programs.
7. Ensure overseas sales entities (and Singapore market) are managing at right level of operation controls and governance requirements.
8. Leveraging Bl tools (Tableau) to provide visibility of business performance and for better risk controls.
9. Ad-hoc duties assigned as deemed appropriate.
Requirements:-
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline. A professional qualification such as CA, ACCA or CPA is preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience in commercial finance, FP&A or business finance, with some experience partnering senior business stakeholders.
- Strong financial modelling and profitability analysis skills, including product, brand, market and customer-level analysis.
- Proven experience in budgeting, rolling forecasts and monthly variance analysis, with the ability to explain performance drivers and risks clearly to non-finance leaders.
- Experience reviewing commercial elements of customer contracts, including sales targets and incentive programmes, and working with Legal on contract matters.
- Good understanding of financial controls and governance. Exposure to overseas or regional entities is an advantage.
- Hands-on experience with BI tools, particularly Tableau, and advanced Excel skills.
- Background in FMCG, consumer goods, distribution or a similar product-based business is preferred.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to turn data into commercially relevant insights.
- Confident communicator who can influence and challenge business directors constructively.
- Detail-oriented, able to manage competing deadlines, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.