Senior Finance Analyst

What makes this a great opportunity?

As a world leader in premium spirits, Suntory Global Spirits inspires the brilliance of life by delivering great consumer experiences through its world-class portfolio of brands. Known for its craftsmanship of premium whiskies, including Jim Beam®, Maker's Mark®, Basil Hayden® and Knob Creek® bourbons; Japanese whiskies, including Yamazaki®, Hakushu®, Hibiki® and Toki™; and leading Scotch brands including Teacher's, Laphroaig® and Bowmore®, Suntory Global Spirits also produces leading IMFL brand Oaksmith in India.
A global company with approximately 6,000 employees in more than 30 countries, one of Suntory Global Spirit's core values is Growing for Good and through its Proof Positive sustainability strategy, the company has committed to ambitious goals and investments to promote environmental sustainability in its operations, ensure the company has a positive impact on the communities where employees live and work, and programs to educate and inform consumers to make the right personal choices about drinking. Headquartered in New York City, Suntory Global Spirits is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan. 
For more information, on our brands and commitment to social responsibility, please visit www.suntoryglobalspirits.com and www.drinksmart.com. 

Role Responsibilities

Commercial Finance

• Key business partner to Commercial and Marketing teams based in Thailand and Philippines.
• Partner the commercial team in building promotional plans, evaluating and approving ROIs, validating customer claims and ensuring proper documentation in place
• Drive value chain analysis and understand channel level strategy within each Market
• Drive conversations between Marketing, Trade Marketing and Commercial teams in optimizing trade investments
• Collaborate with Demand Planning team to review for market opportunities and mitigate risks in conjunction with every forecast cycle
• Review inventory depletion performance against shipment forecast with understanding of market share
• Support annual joint business plan and distributor target setting
• Instill commercial discipline and upholding compliance standards, proactively reviewing current processes to address control deficiencies

Month-end Closing

• Reconcile and support market specific BI accruals
• Monthly journal entry preparation for Trade Investment accruals. Ensure timely and accurate recognition of accruals of trade spends. 

Qualifications

• Degree qualified with finance or accounting qualification and 5-7 years relevant industry experience in similar capacity.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management – demonstrated experience in influencing and managing multiple stakeholders across geographies, building mutually beneficial, profit-focused business relationships.
• Systems/software – experience in using advanced Microsoft Excel (essential), as well as previous exposure to ERP and management reporting/consolidation systems (preferable).
• Experienced in writing succinct and insightful business performance reports, and summarizing business analysis.
• Strong in building financial models and understanding value chains
• Cross Functional Working – proven experience in working proactively across commercial functions to deliver total business performance solutions.
• Fluent in English.