Corporate Finance Manager - APAC

at  Archer Daniels Midland Company

POSITION SUMMARY

This role resides in Corporate Finance within the ADM Finance 3-legged stool structure. This is a dual scope role comprising the roles of financial planning and analysis, and statutory reporting and technical accounting.

Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Lead annual APAC Corporate Planning processes in the record-to-report process catalog.
• Coordinate preparation and consolidation of annual plan, monthly forecasts, key performance measures, and performance reporting to Corporate Function leaders and finance executives.
• Coordinate and consolidate annual plan for the APAC region with all regional BU Leaders and BU Finance leaders.
• Partner across the APAC finance organization with a focus on driving actions that improve the business units and regional performance.
• Assist with the annual business plan including operating, capital and financial components
• Support potential development of dashboards to support the regional finance lead and president
• Benchmark company’s regional financial and operating result against industry performance
• Participate and demonstrate leadership in cross-functional efforts within Finance to continually improve reporting, forecasting, planning, and analysis processes.
• Define, design and create driver-based planning and forecasting models and align models to monthly actuals management reporting.
• Develop and present financial plans, projections, and ad hoc analysis requests to senior management.
• Work with relevant business partners to provide instructions and direction into financial forecasts and plan requirements, including insights and opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to influence others within a matrix environment including senior management

Statutory & Technical Accounting:

• Develop an organisation strategy for APAC entities that directly supports Global Lead Statutory Reporting
• Oversight or preparation of statutory financial statements of regional entities, including statutory process coordination and planning with other members of GBS Record to Report, internal and external auditors.
• Understand the ADM structure and systems in order to properly assist local controllers and department leaders regarding statutory issues on taxation, pensions, legal entity restructuring, dividends, intercompany financing, M&A impacts
• Provide overall guidance on accounting and disclosure for several local GAAP’s
• Active involvement in Merger, Acquisitions, Liquidations and Tax Restructuring projects
• Lead the work to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of financial internal controls for Local GAAP Purpose