Total 2 lead buyer job vacancies in Sales / Marketing category in Muntinlupa City

Team Lead will support management of day-to-day operational activities within the global Fixed Asset team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures.

• Review Journal Entries, Quarterly report, and monthly depreciation calculation and posting
• Reconcile fixed assets transactions and monthly report
• Review the preparation and analysis of the monthly reconciliation of the fixed asset subsidiary ledger to the general ledger
• Ensure compliance in accordance with the principles for recording, disposing, transferring, impairing, and depreciating assets.  
• Monitor the status of CIP projects/assets and on-going communication with business partners to ensure assets are placed into service in a timely manner, recorded and tagged as such.
• Ensure that the risk of errors is minimized within the balance sheet and income statement when the financial statements and management accounts are produced
• Assist with annual audits
• Identify and analyze complex issues and recommend solutions or alternatives.
• Act as – first level escalation point for questions and issue resolutions ensuring issues are addressed on a timely manner Responsible for escalating the issues further as and when necessary.
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to managers to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensures performance/operational gaps are addressed.
• Responsible for the implementation of team’s business continuity plan.
• Recommends resource planning solutions for changing resource loading and work volumes.
• Sets performance and behavioral expectations.  Conducts regular review, provide feedback and coaching, and other developmental, training and learning opportunity plans to ensure the success of the individuals within the team.
• Lead short term projects and supports medium to long term projects and contribute to long term initiatives planning.  
• Develop strong stakeholder relationship by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating it further as and when necessary.
• Ensure team compliance to and delivery of service level agreements, policies and procedures as a agreed with the Manager.

KONE Philippines is embarking upon an exciting growth phase and as such we are seeking a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Team Lead to join our Delivery Operation team in Rockwell, Makati Philippines office.

He/she will drives and supports Front Line (FL) planning activities across New Business Solutions and Modernization, resulting in the agreed and aligned sales plan, installation resource plan, materials plan and financial forecast. S&OP Team Lead is accountable for S&OP process performance in terms of plan accuracy, cross-functional participation and proactive decision making by all stakeholders.

He/She is the expert go-to person for FL/Area/Global staff for all S&OP content, process, data and tools. Being part of a global organization that actively supports your career and internal promotions, means that for the right person, this critical role could be the next step in a fantastic career at KONE.

What will you be doing?

• Provide analysis of product mix trends, forecast accuracy root causes to identify forecast improvements, and lead time trends against assumptions used for the forecasts.

• Accountable for implementing and maintaining the process by training, coaching, influencing, and supporting all projects.

• Preparing meaningful, decision-making material for monthly Executive Meeting (incl. regional demand plan consolidation, mix/trend analysis, risk and opportunity identification, financial scenario analysis, explanation of historical variation to plan for all projects)

• Support Delivery Operations team

• Resolves any planning related master data inaccuracies or issues

• Ensures that order book is updated by the operations team

• Drive the In-Process Review (IPR) meeting with all stakeholders, prepare analysis after IPR review and forecast cost updated in SAP

• Pro-actively to liaise with Operations, Sourcing, CSE and Finance to understand the Risk and Opportunities of IPR selected projects. Also agreed on corrective actions, define responsibilities and deadlines, and share learnings

• Focus on all milestones planning by networks level, IPR status and financial impact, Cash to Cost, Project Costing by Networks and RE level (Actual + Commitment cost vs. Forecast) and take necessary action to close the gaps

• Ensures that other order booking absolutes have been met and quality of required deliverables is adequate for order booking

• Validate the Supporting Documents from Project Admins and Sales

• Installation resource planning - Collaborates with Project Managers by optimize installation resource utilization (sub-con, labour and tools) by preparing capacity and solving imbalances with Operations & Sourcing (Front Line, Area and Global)

Are you the one?

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Degree in Finance, Accountancy or equivalent.

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in financial analysis and forecasting role in a multinational working environment

• Prior working experience implementing cross functional processes.

• Proficient in Microsoft Application especially MS Excel and SAP.

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills to effectively communicate with every level of the organization.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, especially in English

• Able to work independently with minimal supervision and meet tight deadlines

What do we offer?

• Career progression in opportunities within a global organization

• Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work

• Comprehensive learning and development programs covering a wide range of professional skills

• You are surrounded by fun colleagues and a lively working environment. The best part is all leaders are great and open-minded

Note: Candidates must be a resident of the country location.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers