Business Controller, SEAO

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