About this role
What makes this a great opportunity?
The Senior FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, business performance management, and commercial decision-making for Suntory Global Spirits Taiwan.
This Taiwan-based role provides broad exposure to P&L performance and meaningful business partnering opportunities. Working with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and regional stakeholders, the analyst turns financial data into practical insights and drives sustainable business growth.
Role Responsibilities
The role supports the Taiwan business across budgeting, forecasting, monthly performance analysis, management reporting, and decision support. It combines hands-on financial analysis with cross-functional collaboration and offers opportunities to strengthen commercial finance and regional stakeholder management capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Planning & Forecasting
- Coordinate annual budgeting, latest estimates (LE), monthly forecasting, and long-range planning, including financial consolidation and system submissions.
- Develop and maintain financial models to assess P&L performance, key business assumptions, and alternative scenarios.
- Work with local and regional stakeholders to align planning assumptions and identify material risks, opportunities, and performance gaps.
2. Performance Analysis & Reporting
- Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, and prior year, with a focus on revenue, gross profit, operating income, and relevant business KPIs.
- Prepare monthly business performance reviews and management reporting, explaining key financial and operational drivers clearly.
- Evaluate performance across key dimensions, such as brand, product, channel, and customer, including price, volume, mix, and cost analysis.
Long Description
3. Business Partnering & Decision Support
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and other functions to understand business drivers and support action planning.
- Develop scenario analyses and business cases for initiatives such as pricing, innovation, new product launches, investment proposals, and resource allocation.
- Translate complex financial information into practical recommendations for Finance and non-Finance stakeholders, constructively challenging assumptions where appropriate.
4. Data Integrity & Process Improvement
- Monitor brand investment and other relevant expenditures, providing variance analysis, spending visibility, and forecast updates to budget owners.
- Support COGS analysis, cost assumptions, and inventory provision reviews to improve financial accuracy and visibility.
- Maintain reliable reporting outputs and identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, or automate planning and reporting processes.
Success in This Role
- Deliver timely and accurate forecasts, reporting, and financial submissions.
- Identify and communicate core business performance drivers, risks, and opportunities to key stakeholders.
- Provide actionable analysis and business modeling to support commercial decisions and follow-up actions.
- Partner effectively with budget owners while driving continuous improvements in reporting efficiency and data governance.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline.
- Three to five years of relevant experience in FP&A, financial analysis, management reporting, or a related Finance function.
- Solid understanding of P&L structure, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the ability to prepare clear management presentations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Professional proficiency in English and Mandarin, with the ability to communicate effectively with local and regional stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in FMCG, retail, beverage, spirits, or another consumer-facing industry.
- Exposure to financial business partnering, commercial performance analysis, or business case evaluation.
- Working knowledge of SAP, Power BI, enterprise planning systems, or reporting automation tools.
- Experience improving financial processes, analytical tools, or reporting efficiency.