Position Snapshot (Business Unit Controller - Purina Petcare, MYSG)

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Company: Nestlé Products Services

Permanent – Full Time

8+ Years Experience

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestlé career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestlé, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Business Unit Controller to act as a co-pilot to the Business Executive Manager, driving the business through insightful financial analysis and fact-based decision making. The role ensures Business Unit strategy and performance are aligned with market and SBU objectives, while leading the Business Planning and Forecasting processes and ensuring compliance with F&C guidelines.

A day in the Life of a Business Unit Controller

• Proactively influence and facilitate strategy formulation through the MBS process by evaluating and formalising strategies using financial modelling.
• Drive the Monthly Business Planning process, ensuring transparency, target achievement, discipline and compliance.
• Provide quality financial insights to support fact-based decision making while identifying and anticipating business risks and opportunities.
• Review monthly business performance, identify risks and opportunities against targets, and support action plans and ATNWC reduction where applicable.
• Analyse and challenge Procurement, Supply Chain and Factory performance using key financial indicators, while promoting Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and CAPEX optimisation.
• Support Business Innovation and Renovation initiatives through financial analysis and business partnering.
• Analyse the product portfolio to optimise pricing, resource allocation, TTS/PFME/CAPEX investments, eliminate value destroyers, and maximise ROIC.
• Support ad hoc strategic initiatives such as manufacturing and sourcing strategies, restructuring, M&A, and continuous business improvement.
• Contribute to people development, succession planning, and promote financial awareness among non-finance stakeholders.
• Act as the Compliance Champion by driving compliance awareness, maintaining ownership of relevant compliance documents, and coordinating updates to the Compliance Matrix with Legal & Compliance.Top of Form

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Job Requirements

• Experience in one or more Finance & Control (F&C) roles with team management responsibility (MANCOM exposure is an advantage).
• Prior experience in Accounting or Finance, preferably as a Sales, Factory or Supply Chain Controller.
• Experience in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.
• Experience working within a network organisation, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting, with a professional accounting qualification preferred.