2019-07-31准备面试

不管成与不成，把JD和能想到的匹配经历贴在这里做个记录。

需要表现的能力是：

1） Business partnering :重点介绍做产品和PLD line的经历 重点在于support line manger的能力和沟通能力

2）financial planning&analysis:重点在做过的几个成本分析 重点在于表现能力而不是内容，能力包括，细致、追查到底，可以讲reduce claim的例子 

职位描述：

JOB PURPOSE

The Controller's primary role is to support business control team on various initiatives and reports so that the department can provide efficient and effective business partnering to SA China

Furthermore, the controller is responsible for providing counsel and support to respective business line managers. Understand business/economic/environmental drivers of Actual results versus Budget and Forecasts. Supporting, monitoring, measuring the operation with analysis, advice and tools to optimize business line performance.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Reporting

•Validate the financial result at each month end and work closely with accounting team to ensure data accuracy and timely;

2 steps towards closing, first is the pre closing, which is 1-2 days before actual booking close, checking the booking result and make sure all the JV submitted like accrual JV are well booked and without mistake. Also make a simple compare with forecast to make sure the big deviation is under expectation and without surprise. In case any missing, make the correction on time.

Then is the closing, after actual closing, check again the booking to make sure everything is correctly booked.

•Monitor cost and work closely with accounting team for costing and profitability check, including but not limited to standard costing; provision & accruals; Inventory valuation; AS cost etc. to ensure all the cost items are timely booked and financial reports are accurately stated;

checking SAP and make sure standard cost is well booked without mistake so that the cost is well maintained to get the correct profitability. In S company, there is data management team to maintain the standard cost and occasionally there could be mistake like maintain 100 pcs price by using 1 pc price so the cost is only 1% of what it should be. Or could be the SAP system issue. Usually it could be found by analysis the gap between actual and forecast or the past period data. Like which product profitability seems not usual, which variant, is it due to pricing or due to cost? QlickView is a good tool to do this kind of analysis and could easily get the view needed once data is pulled in.

•Work closely with accounting team on BS review especially on warranty, overdues, OSMI, claims, consignment stock, etc and ensure accounting hygiene;

overdues: overdue invoices 到期未收之应收款项，

consignment stock: 寄售库存

OSMI: old stagnant material inventory 过期呆滞原材料存货

I reconcile the balance every month to make sure the excess inventory is properly accrued with the exact amount. That needs an analysis on the status of the inventory, if still having demand to consume or not, if no then we need to accrual the excess cost, if yes then amount deducting demand should be accrued if still excess. 

•Support on implementation of group financial reporting policies and procedures on Division level;

•Interpret / Maintain / Train local sales team on management info systems, such as Qlikview, BI and PowerBI etc. 

I used Qlickview for several years and is company poweruser, I attended training for PowerBI, and understanding how to do data cleaning, getting the format needed for further analysis; how to build models needed for analysis and how to make graphic of different types

•Attend local external and internal audit;

we have external and internal audit 4 times a year, and also SOX audit since S is US listed company. Making sure all documents are well maintained, daily operation according to key control points/process and save all the evidence needed for the audit purpose, meeting auditors and explained to them how the process is executed, why the process is designed like this, how the key control points could cover the risks and show the evidence

Financial Planning and Analysis

•Responsible for monthly closing and review all the financial metrics;

tracking the actual result for the key financial metrics, identify the ones unexpected and find out reasons. Is it a pure increase/decrease or is it a shift from other month so that the yearly P&L will not be impacted

•Perform timely analysis, clear explanations and comments regarding sales area actual results, forecasts and targets, indicate any deviations to support financial performance improvement;

Comparing actual with forecast and budget, find the gap and reason behind. Clearly explain for consolidation purpose and to business line mgmt.

•Work with operation team to validate all the open projects as well as jobs and ensure the Orders / WIP are well tracked;

tracking the open sales orders/WIP to identify the unfinished sales and impact for the further month. 

•Co-ordinate and prepare rolling forecast and latest estimation, perform timely review and early warning on any major deviations;

Prepare the rolling forecast within the financial year. Identify the deviation vs budget set at year end and explain the reasons clearly. Due to timing shift or pure increase/decrease, what is the reason for the change and what can we do to improve

•Participate in demand planning meeting to ensure proper planning is agreed upon;

Demand planning and changes will directly impact sales forecast so tracking the changes per month and reason for the change as an explanation for sales forecast update

•Support SA Business Controller to define the local departments structure and cost allocation according to attributive effort for relevant teams;

Working together with global team on cost/OPEX allocation

•Actively involved and contribute to long range sales and profitability planning;

Long term plan support, based on certain portfolio and projection

•Validate forecasts and support SA business controller to ensure planning accuracy is in good manner;

Planning accuracy is one of the key points of control, especially focus on the next month or current quarter result. 

Business Partnering

•Support selected business lines in analyzing the financial KPIs and provide needed financial insight in collaborating with SA and Division management;

Prepare the financial KPI and analysis the gap between forecast/budget or target.

Checking the variance and identify the key areas to dig further. which product, which channel or which customer having major variance and checking with business what is the reason behind. including company internal, external environment, seasonal reasons, order unfinished etc

•Lead preparation on Monthly Business Review package for the relevant business lines, actively participate in the MBR meeting to support respective business line managers;

Prepare the monthly business review package and go through with business managers. Listen to their feedback and plan actions to improve. 

•Collaborate with local business line organization in delivering sound financial result, be an active advisor to action plans that drive business in the right track;

Provide scenarios to reflect different assumptions, show past successful product experience or product itself past history as compare. 

•Maintain the Business Activity Plan (BAP) for relevant business lines and follow up / update agreed action until closure;

•Serve as finance partner to support overhaul workshop as well as service operation team in productivity and efficiency measures, as well as internal control effectiveness;

•Work closely with AR and sales team to track customer credit and collection, drive overdue improvement to ensure customer payment is made against agreed terms and any bad debt risk is early detected and well managed;

•Actively participate in any capital employed efficiency programs for local sales operations to improve NWC;

•Support SA Business Controller in implementing policies and guidelines across the frontline to ensure SA is operating in a compliant manner;

•Participate in discussions on customer contract conditions and ensure contract terms are well evaluated for the interest of SMRT by BLM and sales colleagues, including but not limited to price, credit, working capital; other liabilities etc.;

•Facilitate relevant business projects at an early stage to optimize and challenge business performance;

participant in product early stage to simulate product ROI. 

Governance & Risk Management

•Support in driving Internal Controls and ensure they are well embedded in in our processes and way of working;

•Ensure the quarterly IC self-assessment is well performed and follow up with responsible person on remediation closure if any;

•Escalate medium and high-risk items to management to avoid financial impact

Your profile: 

•10+ years relevant working experience

•Bachelor in Accounting or Finance

•Good communication skill

•Fluent English

•Open and keen to learn

•Be accountable and willing to take lead

•Solid and be careful on detail