Assistant Manager Finance

Role overview

P&L and commercial finance

• Own the eCommerce P&L and monitor revenue, gross profit, contribution margin, OPEX, and EBITDA.
• Review profitability by customer, product/SKU, and category; identify margin improvement opportunities.
• Partner with business teams on budget, profitability, and EBITDA targets; provide recommendations to senior management.

Reporting and financial control

• Oversee eCommerce month-end closing and review revenue, COGS, inventory, accruals, provisions, rebates, discounts, returns, logistics, wastage, and OPEX.
• Review monthly MIS variances against budget, forecast, and prior year; ensure KPI and management-reporting accuracy.

Pricing, planning, and inventory

• Review pricing, promotions, discounts, and margin proposals; govern HORECA contractual buying dealsheets and annual pricing approvals.
• Monitor margins against approved targets and address margin erosion and commercial deviations.
• Lead and review annual budgets and periodic forecasts; challenge revenue, margin, OPEX, CAPEX, manpower, working-capital, and EBITDA assumptions.
• Conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses; identify OPEX optimization opportunities and analyze inventory ageing, wastage, expiry, shrinkage, damages, markdowns, and write-offs.
• Work with Operations and Supply Chain to resolve inventory variances and improve financial performance.

Procurement and business partnering

• Analyze Group procurement price variances, contractual versus non-contractual buying, procurement compliance, and financial impacts of buying-mode deviations.
• Manage Group incentive workings and approvals, coordinating with HR and Payroll.
• Lead and guide the commercial finance team responsible for MIS and analysis; partner with eCommerce, Procurement, Sales, Supply Chain, and other Group functions.
• Review business cases for initiatives, categories, channels, and investments; assess ROI, NPV, payback, break-even, and sensitivity as applicable.
• Translate complex financial information into clear commercial actions.

Candidate requirements

• CA, ACCA, CPA, MBA Finance, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Strong Commercial Finance, FP&A, Business Finance, or Financial Planning experience.
• 4–5+ years of relevant experience; eCommerce, Retail, FMCG, Food, Distribution, or another high-volume transactional business experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of P&L management, budgeting and forecasting, pricing and margin management, profitability analysis, inventory and working capital, and commercial finance.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and strong financial modelling skills.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power BI experience is desirable.
• Strong commercial acumen, business partnering, stakeholder management, cross-functional coordination, and team leadership; ability to challenge assumptions and deliver actionable recommendations.
• Strong review discipline and attention to detail.

Key competencies

• Commercial Finance, P&L Management, FP&A, eCommerce Finance, Pricing and Margin Management, Financial Modelling, Budgeting and Forecasting, Procurement Analytics, Business Partnering, and Commercial Decision Support.