Finance Manager

The Finance Manager is responsible for financial planning and analysis. He/she will lead financial strategies, process improvement, and system simplification to drive business growth. He/she will manage key profit and loss items such as gross margins, advertising and promotions and general & administrative expenses.

• Manages the company’s gross profit strategy and ensures timely implementation of plans to achieve the target gross profit.
• Analyzes and recommends cost savings opportunities.
• Collaborates with business partners to ensure timely implementation (i.e. R&D, Demand Team, SPG and Supply Chain)
• Monitors movement of Gross Profit and provides commentaries for variance analysis.
• Drives programs and projects that will help bridge the gap to reach target Gross Profit.
• Sets and governs guardrails to minimize unfavorable impact to Gross Profit during Sales and Operations Execution/Plans (S&OE/P) discussions.

• Leads product analytics and reporting.
• Builds proper principles on the right level of Gross Profit for product/marketing launches.
• Analyzes product category gross profit and creates levers to improve profit.
• Partners with various stakeholder to understand the drivers of cost of the product.
• Ensures the integrity of product costing database in various platforms (e.g. DSP) brand campaigns, trade marketing programs, etc.)
• Provides financial recommendations to ensure project targets are met.
• Creates financial models to analyze the profitability of various business model to drive sales growth in various channels.
• Partners with various stakeholder in managing and monitoring of Advertising and &Promotions budget.
• Provides business strategies in ensuring efficiency in A&P utilization.

• Manages main office and operations annual budget.
• Provides outlook and opportunities in cost savings.
• Timely escalation of business risks and opportunities to partners
• Drives main office and operations budget to ensure efficiency and target achievement.
• Provides insights to functional heads on how to properly manage their department budgets.

• Must be a graduate of any 4-year finance or business-related course.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in financial planning & analysis.
• Experience in managing key profit and loss items such as gross margins, advertising and promotions and general & administrative expenses.
• Willing to be assigned in Ortigas, Pasig City on a hybrid working set-up (2 days, 3 days work-from-home/week).

Jollibee Foods Corporation is the hiring entity for this requisition.