Primary Functions and Responsibilities
Business Partnering
- Support with monthly business reviews preparation and driving the process, industry and market trends and analysis, SWOT analysis, scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis.
- Business partnering with regional/country BU team including but not limited to ROI analysis, forward looking decision support, inventory and incentive review, controlling A&P and trade spend.
- Monthly analysis of financial results and rolling forecast. This includes monitoring of achievement of financial performance vs KPIs.
- Provide financial insights and work collaboratively with the commercial team to support the business to grow with available resources.
- Stakeholder management and work with Regional functional heads on projects that are critical for regional success.
- Transparent reporting of risks and opportunities in business to senior management.
- Takes part and challenges key business decisions using relevant reporting and analysis, and presenting data in a commercial way, to optimize costs and efficiency of activities.
- Analyze the marketing spend, review vendor selections, and provide recommendations.
- Contribute to the effectiveness internal control of FP&A function
Actuals
- Participate to monthly closing in relationship with Operational Team & Accounting
- Analyse the overall delivery of the financial targets monthly and report back to the business/joint venture/ global with recommendations as necessary (Outlook, Sell Out, Sell In, monthly P&L closing)
- Monthly measure & analyse discrepancies between actual & targets by customers
- Support Monthly reporting to HQ, local Finance & Sales team & marketing team
- Analyze the overall delivery of company financial targets on a regular basis and report back to the business with recommendations as necessary
- Evaluate profitability of the brand, analyze the profitability by customer and by subsidiary in accordance with brand management needs
- Analyze the business risk and preparation of back-up plan for business target achievement
- Check and analyze monthly P&Ls, and prepare the monthly management report
- Handle local reports requested by the regional and HQ teams
- Support Australia market in the absence of a local controller.
Forecasts (Budget, Revision, Landing, …)
- Prepare budget revisions in accordance with parent company requirements and timetable, working with the local management and controlling teams to gather information in a timely and accurate way
- Manage entire budgeting process, coordinating with all internal stakeholders for inputs
- Build bottoms up budget for each business division and all back-office cost central including Finance, HR, IT, marketing and legal
- Maintain cost control responsibility; provide relevant reports and rationale, with recommended action plans to the business for tight budget control
- Support the brand in preparing the 3 years plan
- Prepare budget deck for presentation to senior management
Projects
- Participate in the implementation of finance / IT projects for the controlling functions
- Continually seek to improve processing efficiency and controlling capabilities of the company
- Reinforce internal control requirements and implement procedures as necessary
Candidate Profile
Profile
- At least 5-8 years of Business Controlling and/or Audit experience
- Business Financial or Accounting degree or related
- Experience in luxury, FMCG, beauty or retail and regional role will be preferred
- Strong experience in a financial position within an international group
Key Competencies
- A team player and leader with excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently, highly autonomous, work under pressure for tight deadlines
- Possess good business acumen with an analytical mind
- Ability to adapt and be flexible to changing environment and business needs
- High level of persuading and influencing skills
- Proactive, meticulous with strong analytical thinking and business mind-set
- Excellent communication skills
- Well-organized, sensitive to figures, detail-oriented and commitment to accuracy
Technical Skills
- System oriented (strong Excel and Access skills)
- Accounting and controlling knowledge