Total 3 job vacancies by Bridgestone Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.

The incumbent is a member of Bridgestone’s Legal and Compliance Team based in the Regional Head Office, Singapore. In this role, s/he will be responsible for managing a variety of legal, compliance and risk related support across APAC geographies as designated.

S/he should have a broad foundation of corporate commercial experience in contract review, legal advisory, legal support for day-to-day operations and compliance initiatives.

This role would require the incumbent to have a solutions-oriented, accountable and ethical mindset.

Key Deliverables:

• Act as lead counsel, trusted advisor and strategic business partner

• Draft, review, and manage negotiation of commercial agreements, including procurement, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), distributorship and dealer agreements, ensuring all legal obligations are met and risks are mitigated

• Liaise with external parties including managing external counsel and contract negotiations with customers, channel partners and vendors

• Develop and train internal stakeholders in their review of commercial contracts

• Provide legal guidance and support to internal stakeholders in the areas of procurement, logistics and supply chain, brand marketing, labour & employment, information and technology, debt collection, dispute resolution, intellectual property, corporate communications, corporate governance and strategic transactions

• Provide support on all compliance and risk matters and activities, including collaborating with the compliance team to carry out investigations, and to implement initiatives, policies and procedures to promote a culture of compliance and ethical conduct in the areas of antibribery, antitrust, sanctions and data privacy

• Provide training and guidance to internal stakeholders on legal and regulatory issues

• Partner with stakeholders at all levels of the organization across geographies and regions

Job Requirements
• Degree in Law (LL.B) or its equivalent

• Professional legal qualification (e.g. Bar Admission, Solicitor’s qualification) or its equivalent

• 7 to 10 years of relevant post-qualification experience within a law firm and corporate in-house legal department (MNC preferred)

• Ability to handle multiple ad-hoc priorities, assignments with a sense of urgency to accomplish objectives in time frames necessary to support business objectives

• Experience in the management and negotiation of commercial contracts and transactions

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels across regions.

• Ability to present ideas and concepts, in an easy-to-understand and concise manner, and appropriately tailored for varying audience

• Demonstrated counseling and decision-making skills with the penchant in appreciating the overview of business strategy and operational needs in the preparation of legal advice

• Practical hands-on experience with a strong collaborative and receptive approach to teamwork and providing resolutions

• Excellent communication skills and proficiency in any South-East Asian language is an advantage

• MS Office proficiency and savviness in technology tools

This role entails strong supporting role to BSAPIC Management and Regional Head Office (RHO) Functions to coordinate within all BSAPIC Functions and GCs to provide high quality financial management reporting to BSAPIC management covering budgets, plans and quick simulations, with specific focus on 27MBP (budget and plan coverage for five years from 2027-2031). This role will first and foremost work closely with the RHO FP&A, RHO Corporate Planning (CP)/ Business Planning (BP) teams, as well as BSJ Finance to ensure smooth progress and connection throughout the roadmap for 27MBP. This position will play a critical role to ensure smooth processes and efficient connection between all the stakeholders, including all departments in the RHO and group company finance, leading towards financial and management reporting for strategic and operational management purposes, and meeting reporting deadlines and requirements to GHO for Quarterly Forecasts, R&O and 27MBP.

Key Responsibilities

·      Coordinate BSAPIC 27MBP enterprise process for budgets and plans covering mid-term to long-term):

• Be up-to-speed and understand reporting requirements from global functions
• Work with RHO FP&A to understand inputs required to develop financial figures, simulations and scenarios
• Propose the appropriate process and level of involvement of Functions and GCs to meet the requirements and drive the discussions with BSAPIC CEO and CFO, and RHO CP towards timely decision making
• Coordinate with all Functions to ensure alignment of process and deadlines, and monitor progress to ensure compliance with plan, and develop revised plans to handle unplanned events or situations
• Work closely with CP, BP, RHO FP&A and RHO Functional teams to plan, arrange and revise if required for appropriate BSAPIC internal reporting and meeting schedules and calendar
• Coordinate with RHO Supply Chain (SC) on timing of inter-SBU/intra-SBU plan revisions for agile and efficient updates, including Factory Cost updates, throughout 27MBPfinancial plan life cycle
• Align with RHO Human Resources (HR) for efficient and accurate reporting for Headcount, Payroll assumptions, Rebuilding items in 27MBP

·       Promote digital transformation for forecasts, budgets and plans (mid-term, long term)

• Contribute to the system development for data driven approach by reflecting the required insight from enterprise perspective
• Develop efficient & effective report that users & CAP management could easily access
• Be core member of Global projects relating to digital transformation for financial planning

·      Design models to provide repetitive quick financial simulation and scenario to support Management with financial impact for determination of action and decision-making:

• For regularly updated factor, including but not limited to volume (both sale and production),RMI, FX assumptions
• Plan and organize updates of factors with BSJ, Functions and GCs as required
• Monitor accuracy of model and identify areas to revise and improve simulation formulas and assumptions

·      Design and improve the BSAPIC R&O process with close coordination with RHOFP&A, CP and Corporate Strategy (CS)

·      Other activities:

• Provide guidance to senior/junior staff to improve capability of finance team
• On request to participate in any projects to improve entity/group companies job functions and processes (e.g. system automation, streamline work procedure, policies etc.)
• Provide guidance and support to group companies Finance
• Liaise and support to RHO accounting team, consolidation team

Job Requirements

• Degree in accountancy/professional accounting qualification or its equivalent
• At least 10-15 years of commercial FP&A and Accounting experience
• MNC experience and exposure, especially working with the APAC region
• Fluent in English writing and communication
• Dynamic personality with positive attitude and self-motivated
• Strong planning skills and well organized
• Team player and proactive attitude

This role entails strong supporting role to regional consolidation and Regional Head Office (RHO) entity reporting/FP&A to provide high quality financial management reporting to the RHO management covering actuals, forecasts, budget and plans. This role will work closely with all finance team and all departments in the RHO as well as group company finance and this position will play an important role in providing valued information to help all the business operations in achieving their corporate objectives.

Key Responsibilities

- Assist in the development and preparation of financial reporting / budget / forecast of Regional Headquarter company.

- Work closely with Sales companies and Japan Headquarter to provide support to deliver financial results.

- Monitor financial performance, identify trends, and highlight potential risks or opportunities for Regional Headquarter company.

- Provide support in OPEX management and monthly consolidation across Sales Companies, ensuring data integrity and consistency.

- Responsible for the analysis of P&L for BSAPIC region in actual, budget and forecast.

- Perform simulations to evaluate the impact on P&L.

- Perform FX rate calculation to support the closing, budget, forecast and lead the analysis of FX impact across APIC region.

- Support the implementation and improvement of financial planning and analysis tools, systems, and processes.

- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within the FP&A function.

- Participate in digitalization projects harnessing BI and AI tools to improve analytical outputs of FP&A to support business and Management decision making

- Maintain profitability calculation system and upload and process SAP data into the system for Region Headquarter company.

- Responsible for the assigned accounting tasks related to Group reporting.

- Support all ad-hoc analysis related to FP&A functions and Management’s request.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy/ Professional Accounting Qualification or its equivalent discipline.
• At least 4 years of proven experience in the commercial accounting and/or FP&A. Experiences in working in MNCs, especially with the exposure to APAC region would have added advantages.
• High proficiency in MS Excel technical skill is mandatory. Experience with Power BI tool and/or financial analysis tools/software (e.g. SAP) is preferred.
• Management accounting is preferred.
• Strong initiatives, organized, meticulous and detail in figures.
• Fluent in English writing and communication, with the ability to convey complex messages to a diverse audience.
• Dynamic personality with positive attitude and self-motivated.
• Strong planning skills and well organized.
• Team player and proactive attitude.