T&T Manager - Finance Transformation - Japanese Client Services - SEA

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Work you’ll do

Japanese Companies’ Businesses in Southeast Asia are Entering a New Phase.

Traditionally, Japanese companies have achieved business growth in Southeast Asia by expanding geographically and growing their businesses with other Japanese firms, all while being mindful of local regulations and business customs. However, going forward, there is an increasing need to gain local customers and secure a competitive advantage over local companies. This requires a deeper and faster understanding of the market, and a business strategy that goes beyond simply applying capabilities cultivated in Japan. Companies will also need to drive business strategies using M&A and alliances, all while managing an increasingly uncertain and diverse business environment.

In light of these changes, Japanese management teams are now required to make more precise, flexible, and swift management decisions compared to before. Establishing a solid management and operational foundation has become a critical action for survival in the Southeast Asian market.

To address these management challenges, it’s essential to develop not just individually optimized organizations, operations, and systems, but also regionally optimized foundations. In addition to efficiency improvements such as process standardization and consolidation for stronger governance, businesses need mechanisms that enhance the speed and quality of data generation. Furthermore, it is necessary to build analytical platforms that can use this data to drive business growth.

In response to these demands, Deloitte SEA’s Japanese Client Services (JCS) is actively hiring talent capable of improving and strengthening not just individual processes, but the overall business and management infrastructure. This includes utilizing digital technologies for management tasks to fully automate operations and automatically generate performance analysis and business forecasting information.

Key Background Factors

Increasing Demand for Tech-Driven Services

In Southeast Asia, it is critical to restructure value chains for optimal efficiency across the region, ensuring healthy cash flow and profitability by integrating various business functions such as sales, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, and logistics. Accurate performance assessment and the generation of high-quality future forecasting information through data utilization have become key success factors (KSF), and we are actively looking to bring on experts in these areas.

Two Key Aspects of Tech Utilization: Complete Operational Automation and Advanced Analytical Functions

The first aspect focuses on paperless operations and the automation of routine processes using technologies like RPA, OCR, and BPM:

• RPA: Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath
• OCR: Abbyy, Kofax, WorkFusion
• BPM: Pega, Appian, Newgen, Concur

The second aspect involves automating business and management data visualization, budget/performance analysis, and forecasting using BI, EPM, ML, and AI:

• BI: Tableau, Power BI
• EPM: Anaplan, OneStream, Jedox, Tagetik
• ML/AI: DataRobot, Celonis, Alteryx, H2O

Increasing Repatriation of Japanese Expatriates in Southeast Asia

It is anticipated that the roles of Managing Directors and CFOs at Japanese companies in Southeast Asia will expand. CFOs will be expected to go beyond traditional responsibilities like finance and treasury to include HR, IT, and procurement, providing data analysis and insights to enhance corporate value.

Acceleration of Delegation of Authority due to COVID-19

The pandemic has accelerated the delegation of authority due to physical movement restrictions, a trend that continues. While business expansion among Japanese companies could be somewhat controlled by headquarters in Japan, handling competition and entering the local market requires swift information gathering and decision-making on the ground. This has increased the need for a strong management cycle within Southeast Asia.

Finance Transformation (FT) offers consulting services in accounting and management to Japanese companies operating in Southeast Asia, primarily targeting CEOs and CFOs. Based on business strategy and structure, the Finance Transformation (FT) team focuses on optimizing business functions across the region, redefining responsibilities and authority, and refreshing operational and system infrastructure. Key services include:

• Reconstructing operating models across Southeast Asia
• Building Global Business Services
• Establishing shared services and outsourcing
• Designing and restructuring regional headquarters
• Realigning functions between Japanese headquarters, APAC, and local subsidiaries
• Creating business plans for regional headquarters design and restructuring
• Promoting digital finance
• Streamlining end-to-end operations (cross-functional processes such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay)
• Implementing and replacing accounting systems
• Defining requirements for operational automation tools (BPM, EPM, AI, etc.)
• Defining requirements for accounting systems (for standalone, c