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Job Mission:

To enable the growth of our Fragrance & Beauty Division to its full potential and to enhance the financial governance of our Corporate Functions (e.g. Supply Chain, IT, HR, Legal, Finance) we are looking for a dedicated Business Finance Senior Manager, based in HCMC, Vietnam.

With the aim to deliver a competitive advantage to our company, the Business Finance function needs to be agile and dynamic, founded on insights and proactive business partnering to influence and even shape strategic decisions.

We shall no longer just report the news but help making the news. Connect the internal and external insights and proactively drive and shape the governance of the local, regional or global agendas for business discussions.

The job also requires providing Smart Analytics that can be turned into actionable insights and enables management to effectively solve their business problems. Smart analytics are:

  • Relevant: it makes a difference, especially with regard to making predictions
  • Timely: it's relevant now
  • Faithful: it's complete, neutral, and error-free
  • Verifiable: it can be replicated and verified
  • Actionable: it' true to what it claims to represent and is deemed beneficial to the user
  • Understandable: it's quickly comprehensible by those familiar with the situation

This is a multifunctional role: performed as Risk professional, BI expert, Manager driving on risk management, Modeler, Idea-generator, and Business Partner, shaping the strategic vision with enormous analytical capabilities.

Business skills and leadership attributes:

  • Transformational: The position shall have the attributes to challenge the status quo, be creative and innovative.
  • Visionary: able to develop and implement a strategic vision for the Fragrance & Beauty Division & as Finance Business Partner for Corporate Functions. Be sensible to changes in marketplace, upon which predicting impact to our House.
  • Agile: Work independently and be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity. Be curious to find out what we don’t know, a proactive and continuous learner.
  • Relationships-focused: Be collaborative with various teams including Trade Partner as necessary, Finance, Business, and other corporate functions at Local, and Regional levels. Proactively provides solutions, recommendations, and supports to stakeholders

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contributes to build and plan the Strategy for the Fragrance & Beauty Division
  • – The position is actively involved in shaping a strategic Vision and goals with management teams for the Fragrance & Beauty Division
  • – Forward thinking, utilize robust and advanced analytics to derive mid/long term business scenarios, predictive and prescriptive analysis to come up with possible actions and guide stakeholders towards a solution
  • – Monitors external environment such as macro factors, competitors’ movements, assess the impact to our business (short term, mid/long term) and recommend appropriate course of strategic actions where applicable
  • Drives business performance management of the Fragrance & Beauty Division & Corporate Functions
  • – The position provides value-added financial/predictive analyses, modelling, advisory and insights into business & functional performance and, whether at regional, divisional, or local level to influence management decision making.
  • – Profitability and productivity scope 360 – by customer/by area, by division, cost center and consolidated. By channel of distribution / point of sale and product category. The focus is qualitative profitability growth while never compromising on our brand equity
  • – Collaborates with Divisions, budget owners and coordinate with Trade Partner and Regional Finance teams on developing analytical KPIs and automated reports to support business decision making and enhance work efficiency. Ensure adopting regional developed reports and templates where applicable, and focus local templates/analysis on value adding to business, prescriptive with insights and proposed actions
  • – Leads the establishment of regular cadence with business partners, drive the monthly FBP division performance meeting for monthly actual vs budget variance analysis, sales and expense forecast updates as well as improvements to operating expense efficiency and forecasting. Recommends appropriate course of action when results differ from plan
  • – Leads inventory management with FBP division through reviews with commercial teams, sales forecast, follow up on Stock Obsolescence and write offs
  • – Understands, makes sense and provides recommendations based on the interdependencies & links between different functions and the FBP division
  • Drives efficient tracking, planning/budgeting for the Fragrance & Beauty Division & Corporate Functions
  • – Leads the process and development of Monthly/quarterly tracking, forecasts, Budgets, Latest Estimates and 2-year plan and MTP where applicable
  • – Contributes to the development of Annual Business Review and Strategic Alignment Meetings
  • – Supports in streamlining planning and forecast processes:

Forecasts efficiently and effectively, i.e. forecasting process balances speed with accuracy, work closely with business partners to develop a “lighter” operating budgeting process to minimize reworks. Proactively provides feedbacks on the design of planning Systems, software, and tools: Our financial systems and software are designed to integrate historical and predictive financial information and reduce time spent on manual data manipulation.

  • Provides ad hoc financial analysis and presentation as required by senior management
  • Builds complex Business Cases with multiple scenario analysis and modeling to support decision making. Provides recommendations
  • Co creates capital expenditure request with business and budget owners and provide its expertise on the subject, ensure financial and qualitative KPIs are met, carry out post-mortem review to ensure actual project outcome as per plan.
  • Helps to shape the right business model, the right organization, and the relevant governance for each of the export markets, navigating between our internal organization, our trade partner’ organization and the local tax and regulatory landscapes.

Role Specifications:

Academic / Professional Qualifications

  • University degree in Business Administration with major in Finance, Accounting, Management Systems, or Economics, or Quantitative Finance
  • Thorough knowledge of accounting / financial concepts and principles

Work Experience

  • Minimum 8-10 years working experience, inclusive of 3-5 years of managerial experience
  • Solid experience in the FMCG, retail industry, manufacturing, or Fragrance & Beauty / Fashion / Watches & Fine Jewelry industry
  • Some experience of doing business in multinational / APAC environment would be ideal

Required Competencies

  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Agile, commercial curiosity and business acumen
  • Strong Excel skills required
  • Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models
  • Strong interpreter of data
  • Entrepreneur, motivated and driven – mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”
  • General knowledge of tax and regulatory environment
  • Ability to see both the big picture and the details
  • Innovative: This is the paramount skill
  • Strategic thinking: able to shape a 3–5-year Vision and how to get there
  • Personality types that thrive on new ideas and creative thinking, rather than just number crunching

Key Interactions / Stakeholders:

Internal

  • Local/Regional Finance
  • Local/Regional Divisional Teams
  • Local/Regional Budget Owners

External

  • Project consultants
  • Trade Partner(s)
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