Finance Business Partner

Who we are:
Remember the last time you opened a bottle of cold beer after a hard day's work or a refreshing nice-tasting bottle of soft drinks, or a bottle of our world-renowned fish sauce - a must-have in every household's kitchen in Vietnam, well it was probably made by us.
O-I BJC Vietnam Glass Limited is a leading glass container manufacturer in Vietnam, which is jointly owned by Owens-Illinois Incorporation (O-I)- world largest glass containers manufacturer; Berli Jucker Public Co. Ltd (BJC) -Thailand's leading commercial conglomerate; and Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Company (SABECO).
With one furnace and four production lines the company has an annual production capacity of nearly half a billion of returnable and one-way premium glass containers for Vietnam's beer, soft drink, food, wine, spirits, and pharmaceutical products.
From engineering and manufacturing to brand development, design, and innovation, we provide unique solutions to exceed our customers' expectations and fuel consumers' desire for top quality, is proven to come first from glass before any other packaging choices.
Grow your career with us? Join our Life in O-I BJC Vietnam.
Your role:
As the Finance Business Partner, you are responsible for leading the partnering agenda for the Supply Chain and Manufacturing department, whether in terms of long-term business cases, benchmarking exercises, or short-term financial evaluations and driving gap closure initiatives.
This position is responsible for providing annual budgeting, monthly financial forecasting and insights for manufacturing & SC and support Manufacturing Leadership team & SC Head to manage the performance management.
You report directly to the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager.
Work location: HCM and Ba Ria Plant
Key responsibilities:
1. Forecast: Consolidate the overall forecasting inputs for factory production forecast, SC forecast, etc. and to provide explanation on variance between actual & forecast production cost, purchased pricing, etc.
2. Business Partnering
• Be a key partner coordinate between FP&A with SC and Manufacturing, helping to translate Supply Chain and Manufacturing strategies into financial plan and monthly financial forecast/target.3wxc ds.
• Be responsible for monthly reporting to Manufacturing leadership team & SC team for performance as well as support weekly / monthly finance operating processes, including inventory deep dive, plant financial ops reviews.
• Tracking and validating TSC savings (cost savings) and lead GM improvement project with SC and Manufacturing.
3. Cost Controlling & Capex investment.
• Consolidate the overall forecasting inputs for factory production forecast, SC forecast, etc. and to provide explanation on variance between actual & forecast production cost, purchased pricing, etc.
• Monthly reporting to Manufacturing leadership team & SC team for performance tracking (e.g. Cost per ton, efficiency, variance report (BOM vs. FACT), productivity, PPV, etc.).
• Prepare monthly cost centre report and work with cost centre owner to identify & analysis variance between target and actual spending, forecast expenses. In liaise 0th accounting team to allocate the cost is appropriated following internal control, accounting standards.
• Analyse business case for new investment project (Capex investment) and deploy financial planning for 3-5 years for Capex projection,
• Provide leadership in controllership related to inventory accounting/processes (physical inventory controls, costing & production order accounting)
4. Others:
• Support Finance Controller & FP &A Manager to drive the finance agenda and bring initiatives for automation improvement.