Supply Chain Finance Manager - Commodity Risk Management & Finance Transformation

This is a non-traditional Supply Chain Finance Manager role requiring a distinctive blend of finance, supply chain, industrial operations, and digital transformation expertise. The role acts as a bridge across finance, supply chain, agriculture (source), and industrial operations, with a focus on commodity risk management, capital governance, finance systems transformation, analytics, and decision support.

Responsibilities:

Commodity Risk Management

• Educate and influence senior stakeholders to embrace and support the adoption of the Commodity Risk Management Programme.
• Lead month-end close activities in relation to commodity accounting, hedge evaluation and reporting.
• Proactively partner with procurement to identify risk and opportunities for covered and uncovered commodities and establish program to mitigate inflation risk associated with Commodities (oil, metal, raw materials, paper, plastic).
• Ensure and maintain full hedge accounting compliance and application of IFRS 9.
• Perform Commodity Price Forecast, supporting with insights and analysis.
• Act as a key point of contact for commodity risk management between internal parties (procurement, corporate finance, division finance, internal audit) and external parities (external audit and consultants.).

Capital / Asset Management

• Drive CAPEX governance across source sites and commercial units in conjunction with Engineering.
• Setting up of new CAPEX forecast and management system enhancing forecast accuracy (+/- 5%).
• Periodic validation of Fixed Asset register in Source Sites.
• Adherence of accounting policies for provisions/accruals for Asset write-off.

Finance Systems & Digital Transformation

• Lead digital transformation initiatives across supply chain & procurement finance.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools from scratch using Power BI with ongoing improvements.
• Lead forecast simplification projects, including Hyperion standardization, data analytics, and visualization tools.
• Establish KPI frameworks and scorecards in supply chain/procurement finance.
• Conduct root cause analysis on ocean freight and logistics cost drivers.

Business Partnering

• Partner with functional stakeholders across source locations, procurement and operations.
• Drive adoption of systems and processes across regions.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor and/or Masters degree in at least two of the following disciplines: Finance, Engineering, Technology, or Information Technology. Masters degree is preferred.
• Relevant experience in Supply Chain Finance with exposure to agriculture and industrial operations
• Understanding of ocean freight and supply chain cost drivers
• Highly proficient in Power BI with experience building dashboards
• Proven track records in digital transformation initiatives
• Strong KPI management and root cause analysis capability
• Excellent stakeholder management and analytical skills
• Ability to travel to rural locations at least 20% of the time