Finance Manager – Business Planning

About the role

The Business Planning Manager combines forward-looking business planning (validating assumptions, tracking performance, and driving cost optimization and process improvements) with strong financial governance (internal controls, compliance, reporting integrity, and risk management). This role serves as the financial and operational backbone of the regional branch, enabling efficient, transparent operations aligned with corporate standards.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and continuously validate branch business-model assumptions, including vendor funding processes, operational expenses, revenue projections.
• Develop and maintain scenario models (base, upside, downside) to support leadership decision-making under uncertainty.
• Partner with regional leadership to assess whether forward-looking projections are realistic and achievable.
• Develop and validate expense models across product categories and regions for overall marketing and operational expenses.
• Maintain real-time visibility into actual, committed, and approved spend; proactively flag overruns and budget-lapse risk to leadership.
• Lead the rolling forecast process for the region, improving accuracy and ensuring alignment with corporate planning cycles.
• Coordinate with FP&A and Accounting to ensure regional results are accurately and timely reflected in consolidated reporting.
• Identify and eliminate operational inefficiencies across branch workflows, including order management, deal approvals, services scheduling, and financial reporting.
• Design and operate the branch spend-control framework, including budget guardrails, commitment tracking, approval workflows, and reforecast triggers.
• Support decision-making on Sales investments, including advertising, sell-through programs, and inventory management.
• Maintain a deep understanding of ASUS product roadmaps, key technology transitions, and platform relationships.
• Perform detailed financial analyses of profitability drivers, including services and logistics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (or equivalent) and 7+ years of relevant experience in Finance and/or Business Planning.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and complex projects while maintaining day-to-day operational rigor.
• Strong understanding of business and management principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Prior proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders; tactful, adaptable, and professional.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish credibility, exercise sound judgment, and align actions to company priorities.
• High attention to detail and a strong sense of urgency aligned to business needs.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision and consistently deliver high-quality results.