Senior Finance Manager
Coty · Hong Kong
Drive the financial performance and strategic direction of Coty's Hong Kong business. As a trusted advisor to the leadership team, you will lead financial planning, commercial finance, governance, and business partnering activities, ensuring sustainable growth, profitability, and operational excellence while shaping key business decisions across the market.
THE ROLE
OPTIMIZE, ENABLE, INNOVATE!
As our Senior Finance Manager, your role is responsible for driving business performance through robust financial planning, insightful analysis, risk management, and strong financial governance. The successful candidate will provide both strategic and operational finance leadership, ensuring sustainable growth, profitability, and compliance while partnering closely with Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Regional Finance stakeholders.
You will be reporting to CFO Asia, and you will manage:
Strategic Business Partnering
- Act as the key finance business partner to Hong Kong leadership team, providing strategic and operational support to achieve business objectives and financial commitments.
- Support commercial decision-making through profitability analysis, ROI evaluation, scenario modelling, and business case assessments.
- Identify business risks and opportunities proactively and recommend actions to maximize performance and profitability.
- Provide financial leadership on key strategic initiatives, organizational transformation, and business growth opportunities.
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Lead the Annual Budget, Rolling Forecast, Strategic Plan, and Monthly Net Revenue Forecast processes for Hong Kong.
- Deliver timely and accurate financial reporting, analysis, and insights to support management decision-making.
- Drive performance management through regular review of revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and profit delivery.
- Develop scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to support business planning and resource allocation decisions.
- Ensure early identification of risks and opportunities against budget and forecast commitments.
Commercial Finance
- Own customer, channel, category, and brand profitability analysis.
- Monitor and optimize Gross-to-Net, trade investment, promotional spending, discounts, rebates, and pricing strategies.
- Lead RSP and pricing reviews to ensure competitiveness while protecting margin performance.
- Evaluate new product launches, promotional activities, commercial investments, and distributor performance to ensure optimal return on investment.
- Partner with Marketing and Commercial teams to assess A&CP investment effectiveness and improve ROI.
Financial Reporting & Governance
- Oversee monthly closing activities, financial reporting, and HFM submissions in compliance with corporate timelines.
- Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial statements, forecasts, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Lead monthly business performance reviews and provide actionable recommendations to management.
- Maintain strong financial controls and governance processes in compliance with SOX, US GAAP, and company policies.
- Coordinate internal and external audits and ensure timely remediation of audit findings.
Team Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Coach and develop finance team members, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
- Drive continuous improvements in financial reporting, forecasting methodology, systems, and business processes.
- Collaborate effectively with Asia Finance, Shared Services, Global Finance, and cross-functional stakeholders to enhance business performance and operational efficiency.
Special Projects
- Lead or participate in regional and global finance transformation initiatives, system implementations, and process optimization projects.
- Support strategic evaluations including business model changes, distributor transitions, organizational restructuring, and investment decisions.
YOU ARE A COTY FIT
As a commercially-minded finance leader with strong business partnering capabilities, you thrive in a fast-paced and diverse environment. You are strategic, analytical, influential, collaborative, and driven to deliver results while leading teams through change and growth.
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline.
- Minimum 8-10 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, and Business Partnering.
- Prior FMCG, Beauty, Consumer Goods, Retail, or multinational company experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of financial planning, reporting, internal controls, and working capital management.
- Experience with SAP, HFM, Power BI, or similar financial systems is highly desirable.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into business insights.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive business decisions.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage cross-functional leadership teams.
- High level of agility, ownership, and accountability.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities with a hands-on and collaborative approach.
- Fluent in English and Cantonese; Mandarin is an advantage.
WHAT WE OFFER
This is a unique role with a genuine opportunity to make an impact. You'll get to work in a diverse environment with a team of professionals who are passionate about the work they do and know how to have some fun along the way.
Coty's global omni-working policy provides the option to work up to 50% of your month remotely. We believe that a more flexible philosophy of remote working will give everyone the freedom to choose what works for their individual circumstances and empower them to always perform at their best.
ABOUT US
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