Finance Manager - Perfume & Beauty

Hermès · Hong Kong

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Responsibilities:

Business Controlling

Prepare, challenge and consolidate budgets and forecasts in collaboration with local and central teams.
Act as a key business partner to the General Manager, drive achievement of financial targets and proactively communicate risks and opportunities versus objectives.
Lead monthly closing processes in coordination with central accounting.
Analyze variances between year-to-date results and budget, and prepare year-to-go analyses.
Monitor and control all regional budgets.
Analyze and report sell-out performance.
Define, implement and monitor key performance indicators.
Design and optimize tools and processes for accounting and finance topics.
Follow up on the regional investment process.

Tax and Accounting

Partner closely with the central accounting team to ensure timely supplier payments and effective customer payments and credit control.
Contribute to the production of financial statements.
Serve as the regional contact point for headquarters on customer and vendor contracts.

Internal Control & Compliance

Implement and adapt Group internal control rules and procedures to local and business requirements.
Communicate internal control standards and provide training to local teams.
Ensure transparent reporting to headquarters and drive related action plans.

IT & Systems
•    Act as the primary regional contact for headquarters IT teams to support the smooth rollout of IT projects
o    Interfaces with customers (EDI)
o    Interfaces with central systems, and external providers

Pricing

Ensure a coherent pricing strategy across the region, balancing local and global requirements.
Maintain and formalize the customer price structure database.
Issue price lists in collaboration with central controlling team.

Team Management
• Manage 2 collaborators to be in line with Hermès management values

Profile:

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
Minimum 10 years of experience in business controlling
Fluent English and proficiency in French is an advantage
Experience in the Perfumes & Cosmetics sector, retail or wholesale is a strong asset
Solid understanding of retail principles and practices
Good knowledge of basic accounting principles
Strong analytical skills combined with commercial acumen
Highly organized, proactive and able to work effectively under tight deadlines
Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative team-player approach
Strong IT proficiency, including advanced Excel, PowerPoint, TM1 and SAP

Reporting to the Asia Pacific General Manager, with a dotted line reporting to the Chief Financial Officer based in Paris. The Finance Manager is responsible to ensure alignment between global strategic objectives and the Asia financial goals, accountable for P&L integrity, cash management, internal control and compliance, IT business process ownership and pricing process.

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