Role Objectives:
The FP&A Senior Manager – CAPEX is responsible for the financial governance and oversight of Breadfast’s CAPEX portfolio, including expansion, new fulfillment points, coffee locations, kitchens, warehouses, factories, and offices. The role owns the financial assessment of CAPEX business cases, monitors spend against approved budgets and authority levels, oversees project payment and variation controls, and maintains accurate visibility of committed, paid, and remaining CAPEX across the portfolio.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Manage the CAPEX governance cycle by reviewing business cases from sponsoring functions, preparing the FP&A CAPEX Project Assessment for qualifying projects, and coordinating each request through the applicable approval matrix.
- Own the CAPEX Summary as the central source of truth for committed, paid, and remaining spend by project, ensuring all data is accurate, complete, and up to date.
- Prepare the monthly CAPEX Overview for the Head of Finance and COO, covering project status, variances against approved amounts, and the rolling 12-month payment forecast.
- Control project cost variations by tracking cumulative variation orders against approved costs, ensuring required re-approvals are obtained, and reviewing contractor claims with the sponsoring function.
- Coordinate CAPEX outflows with Treasury’s cash plan and identify potential cash-flow concentration risks before commitments are made.
- Validate payment milestones with Site and Operations teams before payments are released by AP & Cash Operations, and ensure compliance with applicable advance-payment limits.
- Develop CAPEX cost benchmarks, including cost per sqm, seat, or unit of capacity, using completed projects to support the assessment of future business cases against Breadfast actuals.
- Conduct post-completion reviews comparing actual project costs and performance against the approved business case, and incorporate findings into future CAPEX assessments and approval decisions.
Required Education, Knowledge, And Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, financial analysis, business partnering, project finance, or real-estate development finance.
- Experience in environments with frequent site development or expansion, such as FMCG manufacturing, retail, F&B chains, e-commerce/q-commerce.
- Strong financial modelling skills, including budgeting and forecasting, budget vs. actual analysis, payback analysis, unit economics, and scenario analysis.
- Proven experience owning financial processes end-to-end and driving process improvements.
- Strong understanding of CAPEX planning, project financial management, and cost control.
- Ability to work effectively with operational, project, and contractor stakeholders and operate in fast-paced, project-driven environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to constructively challenge financial assumptions and proposals.
- Strong judgment, analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
