Cecil P.

Experience

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  San Miguel Corporation

  Oct 2005 - Apr 2010

  Finance and Costing Team Lead • Ensures that various business transactions are recorded in compliance with Philippine Accounting Standards.• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements including schedules for both internal management and external reporting. Financial statements and its schedules such as Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow and other reports that provide information on the companies’ financial position. Consolidates the financial operation of the group.• Prepares month end analyses and reconciliation used in monthly closing process and for supporting year-end requirements. Investigate variance of each account.• Analyze and reconciles all transactions and records such as schedule, official receipts, check vouchers, journal vouchers and accounts payable vouchers.• Computes and set-up standard cost and activity prices for the plant plastics operation.• Review and ensures that all required system set up for costing are correct e.g routing, bom components, scrap. etc• Woks closely with production and logistics counterparts to monitor plant product performance Show less • Leads the preparation, review, presentation and updating of the Plant’s Annual Capital Budgets and Long Range Plan (LRP).• Periodically prepares comprehensive and accurate monthly operating reports (MOR) in comparison with budgets and previous year’s figures of Domestic and International Plants to ensure that timely reports on the results of operation are provided to management• Preparation and analysis of price study, cost sensitivities, and other financial scheme• Monitor and control delivery of products thru checking of customers’ purchase orders to ensure compliance to approved selling prices, checking of credit limit to adhere with the company’s credit policy• Periodically prepares comprehensive and accurate CAPEX reports in comparison with budgets and historical figures of the plant to ensure timely and effective planning and control of costs and expenses• Monitors capital expenditures to ensure that all CAPEX disbursements/payments are correctly charged to the proper AACE.• Leads preparation and analysis of price study, cost sensitivities, and other financial scheme• Computation of required selling price increase Show less

  • Senior Finance Analyst - Team Lead

    Oct 2007 - Apr 2010

  • Senior Finance Analyst - Budget and Control

    Oct 2005 - Oct 2007
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  Johnson & Johnson

  Apr 2010 - Apr 2022

  • Manage financial reports, variance analysis, and insights to senior management to facilitate informed decision-making along with ensuring adequate resources are invested in the right areas• Analyse financial data, performance metrics, and key performance indicators to identify trends, Manage month-end and quarterly closing and reporting activities of AU, NZ and SG entities.• Support preparation of statutory report for tax and audit purposes for AU, NZ and SG legal entities.• Collaborate with business partners in identifying the business actual performance, future plans, risks and opportunities • Improve forecast accuracy and monitoring achieving targets focusing on Cashflow, SG&A, OIE and Tax• Assess risks involved in implementation of new processes and initiatives and ensure deadlines are met• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports – P&L and BS in accordance with J&J procedure Show less Lead for finance reporting matters for Asia Pacific Supply Chain, working with various teams to ensure that required submissions to regional FP&A are accurate, complete and timely- Provide financial technical advice and ensure continuously up to date with reporting standard and consider appropriate implementations relevant to the MRC- Accountable for the consumer IT budget and financials- Active month-end close involvement to ensure books closure are timely and accurate with robust analytics and providing good updates to management- Connecting with business stakeholders/partners to ensure reporting for their results (actual and forecast are accurate, with good business understanding of fluctuations against forecast, prior month and prior year - Facilitate and lead discussions to resolve IT finance issues with IT managers and local finance related to IT SG&A- Active communication with the compliance and tax team on reporting and tax updates. Execute new accounting and reporting changes as directed by Worldwide procedure- Working with both internal and external auditors to ensure controls are effective- Champions continuous automation and simplification for current processes and best practices Show less • Cluster Lead for Japan, Malaysia and Compliance, responsible in supervising costing and inventory management and ensures processes are delivered with right level of excellence• Support key Supply Chain stakeholders to proactively and efficiently administer their financial obligations, budgets, latest forecasts and strategic plans• Develop policy and procedures to ensure service levels are met• Lead for Compliance• Subject Matter Expert for Costing supporting regional initiatives for learnings and knowledge retention• Steward of the market, collaborating to all stakeholders in ensuring all controls are in place• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, as well as implementing business process improvement initiatives and best practices• Leads standardization and automation projects of the team• Manages direct reports by providing coaching, capability building, supervising calls with stakeholders and ensuring deliverables are met with operational discipline and excellence Show less • Oversee processing, reporting, transactions, re-evaluations and closing process for Asia Pacific Supply Chain , ensuring that proper procedures are followed in accordance with corporate company accounting policy• Identify, rectify and follow-up errors and causes of errors; ensure high quality and accuracy of work by team through regular review, checks and approval• Maintain thorough knowledge of all aspects of Costing and Inventory Management; resolve process issues which go beyond team member's capabilities• Make sure that monthly, quarterly and year-end closing process and requirements are met in a timely and accurate manner as well as generation and analysis of reports• Assist in policy and procedure development to ensure service levels are met• Provide comprehensive analysis on product flows and highlight impacts on cost of goods produced and inventory valuation• Compliance activities like auditing support on inquiries and provide data for internal & external auditors, Update SOX documents as DCM, SOP's and Flow Charts Show less

  • Regional Finance Manager

    Apr 2018 - Apr 2022

  • Associate Finance Manager

    Jul 2014 - Mar 2018

  • Associate Finance Manager - Cluster Lead

    Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  • Associate Finance Manager - Country Lead

    Apr 2010 - Jul 2013
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  Kenvue

  Apr 2022 - Aug 2024

  Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

  • Led 1 direct report (remote analyst), managing commercial FP&A and financial reports to provide insights to senior management to enable informed decisions to be delivered, this included:• Mentoring, coaching and developing • Determining individual development program which assisted in analyst receiving promotion• Managed the forecasting, reporting and quarterly closing across the business and, this involved:• Ensuring all account balances correct across the various business units• Consolidating all account entries and cross-checking correct codes entered• Completing all statutory reports for Australia, New Zealand and Singapore• Successfully deployed OneStream, a new consolidation tool/system for reporting and planning • Recognised as subject matter expert for OneStream providing advice to finance groups around the region on utilisation of the system, this includes• Providing adhoc analysis and insights • Trouble shooting system issues for users.• Guiding and training team members across the region on correct use of the system• Member of team managing the separation of Kenvue from Johnson & Johnson, this included:• Completing actual versus budget reporting • Managing project costs for functional area and ensuring these costs are transferred to the project correctly• Ensuring assets are reflected correctly into the relevant business Show less