Business Controller

Role: Business Controller (Individual Contributor) Direct Manager: Vice President Controlling Brenntag Essentials Asia Pacific (BES APAC) Regions covered: SEA/APAC Job Description: - Lead, manage and consolidate reporting process for the assigned area of responsibility for actual result, forecast and budget process. - Coordinate and develop the periodic management reports/presentations to various business and functional leaders. - Close diligence including working with Finance team to review data to ensure accuracy of financial results. - Consolidate commentary on variances from plan and prior year. - Publish financial and non-financial results to division, highlighting trends and meaningful business insights to influence business decisions. - Investigation of variances and coordinating with other team members leading to understanding and resolution of issues - Business partner with Commercial team to support and drive performance, strategy, cost savings initiatives and working capital improvement - Deep dive with financial models, scenario analysis outlining problems and opportunities to support business in analysis for strategic decision - Drive implementation of policies, and adhoc projects from time to time - Analyze with business plans and write up proposals to obtain approval.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting. Experience: - 10+ years of similar working experience in financial analysis, data modeling, business partnering - Relevant controlling and FP&A experience in MNC (2 -3 years) - Experience in data analytics a plus. Technical Skillset: HFM, SAP, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Personality Fitment: - Resourceful, analytical, proactive, strong interpersonal skills - Hands-on, self-motivated, meticulous - Have a high tolerance for ambiguity and strong sense of business acumen