About this role
What makes this a great opportunity?
Suntory Global Spirits is a world leader in premium spirits with $5.5 billion in annual revenues and an ambition to become the World’s Most Admired Premium Spirits Company. We have a strong vision and strategy, an incredible brand portfolio grounded in quality and craftsmanship, an unwavering commitment to sustainability and top talent across the organization. We are focused on driving value across key priorities including American whiskey, Japanese Spirits, Scotch, Tequila and Ready-to-Drink. Headquartered in New York City, Suntory Global Spirits is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings, which is world renowned for delivering quality and excellence across a range of products and categories.
Role Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end manufacturing and plant finance activities, including month-end, accruals, reconciliations, overhead allocations and financial controls.
- Support COGS budgeting, forecasting and analysis, including Budget, LE, Strategic Plan and long-term COGS projections.
- Prepare and support SCF MIS, dashboards and monthly business reviews, while driving automation and standardization of reporting processes.
- Perform COGS and conversion cost variance analysis, covering material cost, PPV, FX, wastage, production volume and other key manufacturing cost drivers.
- Support inventory controlling and reconciliation across RM, PM, WIP and FG, including physical stock verification, ageing, ML close, E&O provisions and closure of GR/IR and MIGO/MIRO open items.
- Support CAPEX planning and governance, including Budget/LE, actuals and payout tracking, ROI analysis, capitalization and Fixed Asset verification.
- Support product costing and standard cost roll-ups for finished goods, raw materials and packaging materials, including annual and ad-hoc cost roll-ups.
- Work closely with the Shared Services partner to ensure timely and accurate execution of day-to-day plant finance activities, reconciliations and month-end deliverables.
- Provide finance support to co-manufacturing/co-packer operations, including costing, conversion/bottling costs, inventory, budgeting, forecasting and financial controls.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement and Planning teams to analyse production costs, PPV, losses, wastage and productivity initiatives, and identify risks, opportunities and corrective actions.
- Support internal, statutory and external audits, ensuring accurate documentation, timely resolution of audit queries and adherence to financial controls, policies and SOPs.
- Support 3-Year Plan, Strategic Plan, manufacturing footprint and other SCF initiatives, providing financial analysis for new manufacturing locations, cost optimization and business decision-making.
Qualifications
Experience and Academic base
- CMA / MBA / M.Com / CA Inter in Finance with 3-6 years of experience in Supply Chain Finance, Manufacturing Finance, Plant Controlling, Costing or Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Experience working in FMCG, spirits, beverages, consumer goods or a manufacturing environment
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and reporting accuracy
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced MS Office skills (Excel, Power Point)
- Working knowledge of Power Pivot, Power BI, Power Query is desirable
Key skills, competencies & experience
- Ability to work cross-functionally and in a collaborative manner.
- Ability to embrace values of the organization
- Good negotiation & analytical skills
- Results oriented approach
- Good communication and articulation skills; written and spoken
- High on Ethics and Integrity
- Approach work with team and partnership view