Company Description
Santen is a specialized life sciences company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on ophthalmology. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries, we are dedicated to delivering innovative treatments and digital solutions for eye health and addressing vision-related social issues for people around the world.
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
The Regional FP&A Analyst plays a critical role in financial planning and analysis for the Asia region. This individual supports monthly management reporting, annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and project execution while partnering with key regional and global stakeholders as well as local country Finance managers.
In addition to robust analytical and management reporting duties, the role oversees the maintenance of essential financial planning systems (AFO / BPC), ensuring that mapping requirements such as cost center structures, cost element groupings, standard costs, FX runs, and royalties’ calculations are completed on a timely and accurate basis. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented professional who thrives on financial modelling, managing interrelated financial systems and delivering reliable, timely insights.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Business Partnering:
- Business partnering and decision-making support for driving performance to achieve strategic and financial objectives.
- Prepare materials for monthly and quarterly management meetings by partnering with the regional finance and regional management team as well as country Finance managers.
- Collaborate with other functions to understand and assist Regional Finance and Regional Management team in addressing internal and external challenges and potential business opportunities.
Management reporting:
- Prepare comprehensive financial reports including RHQ function cost reports and P&L review reports.
- Prepare monthly Sales reports by SKU by Country for Asia Corporate Planning.
- Ensure accuracy and on-time delivery of monthly actual data by coordinating post-AFO system load processes.
- Work across departments and countries to prepare budgets and forecasts, consolidate and present the information in a meaningful and business friendly slide deck.
- Assist Regional Finance in cost saving, projects, and initiatives.
Project execution and support
- Support Head of Finance, Asia and Regional Head of FPA on various finance related projects to drive efficiency and effectiveness of finance processes (e.g., new SAP launch project etc.)
- Support projects initiated by other functions from finance perspective, on an ad-hoc basis.
Finance system control
- Monthly systems and BPC/AFO mapping maintenance
- Harmonize expense line items, ensure standardization of expense reporting code between accounting systems, Reporting Module alignment across Asia Region, Countries and Global Finance team.
- Assist in the implementation of Global Pricing Database and other projects, participate in the UAT and work together with the project team to resolve system issues.
- Assist in implementation of Global FP&A projects, contribute to setting up new Global, Region and countries KPIs.
Business partner for Singapore market
- Act as key business partner to Country Head of Sales who manages sales activities of Singapore market, support new product launch analysis, work with commercial team on pricing strategy, margin and SG&A calculation to ensure sustainable profit for the market.
- Perform annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting for local Singapore market with detailed analysis and commentaries for variances, supporting monthly reviews, and providing valuable inputs for their decision-making.
Business partner for Healthcare Function such as SCM and QA
- Prepare SCM CAPEX listing for Global GPS Finance.
- Provide flux analysis and commentaries for QA variances for Global GPS Finance.
- Perform annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting for Healthcare functions with detailed analysis and commentaries for variances, supporting monthly reviews, and providing valuable input for their decision-making.
Qualifications
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or related professional qualifications (e.g. CPA, ACCA, CA)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in FP&A and business partnership,
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, strong team player and with growth mindset.
- Good business acumen, excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively across functions and geographies.
- Advanced proficiency in financial systems (e.g. AFO, BPC) and Excel modeling.
- Deep knowledge on SAP, SAP analysis for Office (AfO), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation software (BPC) and exposure to Microsoft Power BI is a plus.
- Prior experience in Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry is preferred
- Experience in working with country teams across APAC as a RHQ member.
Top Skills
What We Do
As a specialized company dedicated to ophthalmology, Santen carries out research, development, marketing, and sales of pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products, and medical devices. Santen is the market leader for prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals in Japan and its products now reach patients in over 60 countries. With scientific knowledge and organizational capabilities nurtured over a 130-year history, Santen provides products and services to contribute to the well-being of patients, their loved ones and consequently to society.
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