The Investment Manager, now also serving as the FP&A Lead for the Meats Division, plays a pivotal role in preparing essential financial analyses, forecasts, and valuation studies that inform strategic financial and operational decisions across the organization, with a specific focus on the Meats Division. In addition to ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial data used in decision-making for the broader Food Group, this role now entails a concentrated responsibility for identifying and interpreting key trends and insights within the Meats Division, which could significantly impact investment performance and strategic direction. Their expanded expertise and insights are critical in guiding senior management and stakeholders, particularly in decisions related to the Meats Division, thereby enhancing the organization's ability to achieve successful
investment outcomes in this specific sector.
Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Ensures thoroughness, accuracy, and timeliness in the preparation and basic analysis of the financials of one or more divisions of Food Group to support reportorial requirements. These reports include but not limited to the following:
- Internal: BOD, EXCOM, MANCOM, etc.
- External: Banks, Government institutions, etc.
- Prepares thorough, accurate, and timely ad hoc reports requiring basic analysis and coordination with requesting departments ensuring integrity and confidentiality of data.
- Ensures thoroughness, accuracy, and timeliness of ad hoc reports requiring deeper analysis due to higher degree of complexity and confidentiality.
- Closely coordinates with different departments in the Food Group to ensure that relevant financial and operational information is reported and the integrity and confidentiality of the information is kept.
Valuation and Investment Analysis
- Builds financial models and valuation cases, and performs investment analysis for expansions, new businesses, initiatives to improve efficiency and productivity, and mergers & acquisitions.
- Provides analytical support to Executives, Business Development team, Corporate Strategy team, and other operational teams across the Food Group.
- Conducts post-mortem analysis and investment lookback after achieving milestones of investment projects.
- Prepares presentation materials and presents investment analysis and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders, and communicates key insights and findings in a clear and concise manner, ensuring that all parties have a thorough understanding of the investment strategy and potential risks and rewards.
Capital Budgeting
- Assists in the preparation/updating of the 10-Year Warchest grounded on the Food Group strategy
- Collaborates with the Country Teams in gathering inputs/updates to the long-term forecasts
FP&A Lead Specific Roles
- Supervise the FP& A Meats Analyst
- Leads the financial planning and analysis for the Meats Division, ensuring alignment with overall Food Group strategies.
- Develops and implements financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives in the Meats Division.
- Monitors financial performance of the Meats Division, identifying trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborates with F&N and Meats Division unit leaders to develop budgets, forecasts, and operational financial plans.
Others
- Provides support to CFOs, COOs, Country Directors and Controllers, Mill Managers, and other executives, particularly in running financial and scenario analyses for both tactical and strategic initiatives.
- Provides research support to Treasury, and Risk & Commodity departments, particularly in data gathering and analysis of key economic indicators that are regularly monitored by the Food Group.
- Provides cash, debt, and working capital analysis for one or more divisions of the Food Group.
- Attends meetings and discussions related to the Finance Investments function, and participate in cross-functional teams as needed to provide financial insights and recommendations to support business decisions.
- Performs other financial analysis/tasks assigned by the AVP Finance Investments/VP
- Corporate Finance as needed or as business conditions change.
