Regional Business Controller

Company Description
**H&M is on a journey to becoming the leading destination for style, creativity and culture. We want to enable, empower and engage teams while building on our passion for being the truly customer-centric company we are. On this journey we want to encourage our teams to learn and grow meaningfully, unleashing their full potential - fulfilling our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), we are a place of possibilities and where you can Be Yourself & More**

**Job Description**:
The H&M Group operates more than 5000 stores in more than 70 countries with 8 different group brands. We continue to expand worldwide as one of the largest fashion companies in the world.

The Expansion function is here to support in adding meaningful growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. We add new stores and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, relocations and consolidations.

Region South Asia - AUNZ consists of seven retail markets with 218 stores (all brands) and includes Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Australia and New Zealand.

On this journey we´re all collaborating to create the best omni customer offer for our customers and as a Business Controller Portfolio you will be a key player in making this happen. You are a part of the Regional Expansion team and work closely with the Regional Head of Expansion Controlling to set the expansion strategy and portfolio management for the region.

**_ Key responsibilities include:_**
- Supporting the strategy for growth, consolidations, negotiations, and portfolio management in the region.
- Analysis of cannibalization, sales transfer, omni development, club data customer insights, and cost developments to support in strategic planning.
- Portfolio analysis to identify key success factors, targets and areas of opportunity.
- Analysing and visualising data in excel and power BI.
- Creating methods for budgeting, building up P&Ls, and sales forecasting.
- Driving improvements and actions in tools, methods, and processes for the region.

**Qualifications**:
We see that you are a result driven person with strong analytical skills and the ability to structure data. You are good in communicating and presenting information, in order to transfer knowledge and insights to the regional team and the sales market teams. You work strategically and always have a multi-brand and multi-channel perspective. You effectively collaborate with groups of diverse people and you communicate in an inspiring way to motivate colleagues and teams.

**_Besides your personality we see that you have:_**
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience.
- Experience form working in controlling, preferably within the retail sector.
- A degree in business administration or engineering.
- Advanced skills in Power BI, MS Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Great teamwork and collaborative ability.
- Knowledge about common accounting principles.
- Can understand, read, speak and write English at an advanced level.

**_ Your Leadership_**
- You have a positive growth mindset, you are inspired by challenges, you love learning and you truly believe that resilience is essential for great accomplishment.
- You lead with vision and you make relevant decisions to achieve long-term results, by setting priorities and following up your results.
- You are a driver, you take the ownership to set challenging goals for the business, others and yourself and you are motivated from the achievements.
- You motivate the team members and fellow colleagues within the global functions and countries to drive a knowledge based commercial plan approach.

Additional Information

This position is based Singapore and reports to the Regional Head of Expansion Controlling for Region South Asia - with Australia and New Zealand.