Owns regional Cost of Sales financial control, budgeting, forecasting, monthly close, management reporting, variance analysis, cost insights, data quality, automation, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment across entities and functions.
EXPECTED END RESULTS
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
1. Own the financial control of the Cost of Sales portfolio
- Maintain a complete view of outbound logistics, End-of-Life battery, connectivity services, intercompany pricing for imported vehicles and other cross-entity cost of sales items.
- Coordinate financial inputs across entities and functions to provide an integrated view of the Cost of Sales portfolio.
- Ensure costs are classified, consolidated and reported consistently across the region.
2. Lead the budgeting and forecasting process
- Coordinate budget, outlook and forecast submissions across contributing entities and functions.
- Develop forecast models using relevant operational and financial drivers, including volumes, rates, contractual assumptions and foreign exchange impacts where applicable.
- Review and constructively challenge key assumptions, ensuring alignment with regional and global planning guidance.
- Identify, quantify and communicate risks, opportunities and forecast sensitivities.
3. Deliver accurate monthly closing and management reporting
- Review actual results, accruals, provisions and reclassifications with accounting and functional teams.
- Reconcile source data to financial systems and work with contributors to resolve material differences and data gaps.
- Prepare monthly reporting with clear variance analysis versus Budget, Forecast and Prior Year.
- Deliver accurate and timely reporting packages in line with regional closing deadlines.
4. Provide actionable cost performance insights
- Analyse cost evolution and identify the operational, volume, rate, mix, foreign exchange and timing drivers behind material variances.
- Develop cost-per-unit, trend and performance views appropriate to each cost stream.
- Translate complex cross-entity movements into concise management messages and recommended actions.
- Support scenario analysis, business cases and ad hoc management requests.
5. Improve data quality, reporting processes and automation
- Establish robust review controls and audit trails for data received from multiple entities and systems.
- Work with contributors to improve the quality, completeness and timeliness of financial inputs and resolve identified issues.
- Standardise templates, definitions and reporting methodologies across the portfolio.
- Drive simplification and automation using Excel, Power BI, Tagetik and other available finance tools.
6. Build effective cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Act as the key finance interface for the assigned cost streams across regional functions, entities and headquarters.
- Facilitate alignment on responsibilities, assumptions and follow-up actions across contributing teams.
- Facilitate performance reviews, communicate financial insights and coordinate agreed actions with relevant stakeholders.
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