Finance Manager

Blackmores Group is an ASX 200 publicly-listed company, with an extensive presence across Asia Pacific. Our vision is to connect every person on earth to the healing power of nature by combining our knowledge of nature and science to deliver quality health solutions to people and their pets everywhere, every day. Recognising that you can’t have healthy people without a healthy planet, we’re strongly committed to embedding sustainability across our business and giving back to the communities in which we operate.

As a purpose-led, performance-driven organisation, Blackmores Group strives to create remarkable employee experiences through supporting a diverse and inclusive culture, creating leadership that inspires high performance, and providing everyone with opportunities to achieve their professional, personal and wellbeing goals supported by our flexible work practices and family friendly policies.

Blackmores Group operates in 12 markets, with global headquarters in Sydney, Australia an international HQ in Singapore, an Innovation Centre in Shanghai and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Victoria, Australia.

**Purpose of role:
As Blackmores continues to accelerate behind key growth pillars and an exciting strategy to unlock future opportunities. We are looking for a Finance Manager to lead our locally based Singapore team. Reporting into the Finance Director of South East Asia this position will have ownership of all aspects of financial accounting and reporting, governance and controls, business performance analysis and strategic partner to management team, ensuring a stable platform of financial and administrative capabilities, systems and processes to support business objectives.

**Responsibilities include**:
Work with Business Unit heads and Finance team to build their timely annual budgets and re-forecasts if necessary, based on regional guidelines and completion of budget with group signed off. Maintain robust rolling 18 month forecast. Accuracy and timeliness in management reporting
- Performance Catalyst & Advisor

Analyse financial and operational results/budget forecast and KPI against forecast/budget/target/YOY/CAGR to better understand reporting market’s performance and with insights and advises for Country head/s and regional Functional heads towards achieving business strategy and forecast/budget. Highlight risks and necessary actions for monthly forecast to avoid surprise slippage in meeting the forecast
- Strategic Partnering

Industry & Commercial Engagement. Develop a good understanding of the market of vitamins and mineral supplements in Asia. Appreciation of different sales channels and go-to-markets models
- Treasury Function

Review monthly cashflow forecast of BI, and Int'l markets with objective of understanding and communicating cash positions, execution and processing of foreign exchange & hedging transactions and analysis of FX gains & losses.
- Regulatory & Stewardship

Preparation of annual statutory accounts in accordance with all relevant accounting standards

**Who are you?**
- Qualified chartered accountant with a Degree in Accountancy and or equivalent professional qualifications.
- With at least 10-12 years of relevant experience in audit firm/multinational corporations
- Well-versed in performing internal control and sound knowledge of risks and controls in an organization.
- Familiar with Financial reporting in Singapore, and Asia markets.
- Experience in Taxation laws in Singapore and various Asian countries (desirable), budgeting and forecasting.
- Experience in multi-currency treasury & cashflow management, foreign currency revaluation and analysis.
- Process Improvement and re-engineering, including ERP Optimization
- Good understanding of Cross-cultural issues faced by companies operating in Asia
- Excellent commercial awareness & business acumen. looks beyond Finance boundaries.
- Strong in critical thinking and analytical ability, proactive in articulating ideas
- Finance and Data Visualization Expertise
- In Depth Performance and Risks Driven Data Analysis
- Troubleshooting and Problem-Solving Skills
- Clear and fluent Business English language ability (written and spoken)
- Agencies please note: this recruitment assignment is being managed directly by Blackmores Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners if required. Your respect for this process is appreciated._