Job Purpose

Acting as the Finance Business Partner for the strategic account in APAC, having the following primary objectives:

• § Support to drive the overall performance and profitability of the account in all APAC countries

• § Lead all financial activities on the account with the support of the Corporate Finance teams: internal control, planning, risk management, cash management

• § Ensure contractual compliance, while respecting Company’s internal control standards and local country statutory regulations

• § Organize together with the legal team regular training sessions to ensure the commercial aspects of the country agreement are well understood and assimilated by both Client and Company teams

• § Support all Company operational stakeholders to deal with financial issues and regular monitoring of KPIs required as per the contract

• § Manage relationships with Client’s stakeholders & attend Client meetings as required (monthly business reviews and any other ad hoc meetings)

• § Support internal business reviews: monthly regional reviews in APAC, monthly business reviews with the global team, and ad hoc reviews

• § Complete ad-hoc Finance-related studies/ missions/ presentations as requested

Main Responsibilities

• External Reporting to Client

  • Ensure Operations/Admin teams on site provide accurate, complete and the right level of details (i.e. supplier invoices and other costs incurred on site allocated to the correct profit center, service line and service category) on a timely basis, facilitating the monthly closing of accounts by the transversal finance team

  • Challenge the Operations teams in order to enhance their understanding of the commercial model and spend categorization (Core/Variable/Projects) – regular trainings will be provided to all analysts and operations teams on site

  • Validate the monthly financials prepared by Operations/Administrative teams on-site before their upload in Sodexo Connections

  • Ensure the consistency of financials reported in Sonar and Sodexo Connections (reconciliation analysis will be required on a monthly basis, i.e. the regional CS APAC finance team will provide a template with the applicable commercial model for each Strategic Account and the bridge from Sonar data to Sodexo Connections data)




• Internal reporting in Sonar

  • Provide the bridge between operations on site and India Transversal Finance teams for all questions specific to strategic accounts

  • Ensure the right profit centers are set up in Sonar by the transversal finance teams for each strategic account site, customized for each contract specification: GMP/ non-GMP/ Projects for Strategic account, Core/ Variable/ Discretionary for Strategic account, etc.), facilitating the reporting of revenues and corresponding costs by category of spend

  • Monitor of performance (variance analysis) and KPIs reported to client

  • Escalate Loss Making Sites and assist country account manager in the implementation of action plans aimed at performance improvement




• Invoicing

  • Ensure adequate format and content of invoices by category of spend

  • Ensure timely invoicing (reduce unbilled revenue as much as possible) and reversal of accruals

  • Escalate Collections and DO/PO issues




• Debt monitoring

  • Provide Debtors Report as per the current requirements to Country FP&A teams

  • Keep a tracker of the invoices raised by type (GMP/non-GMP) at each site level, indicating estimated collection date and follow-up on actual collection date

Profile:

• Bachelor degree or above, major in accounting and finance management

• Proven track record in finance (minimum 3 years’ experience), ideally in an international environment

• Significant commercial exposure to be support and business partner to operations –gravitas and experience to challenge

• Relationship builder both internally and externally, with ability to influence and negotiate externally

• Process orientation and implementation experience

• Hands on pro-active approach with an ability to work well in autonomy

• Fluent English (written and spoken)

• This position is based in Shanghai

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