Finance Analyst, Asia-pacific

**Ready to bring passion into your career?** - A global leading skincare and make-up company, Clarins group is the embodiment of a committed family history, with a fierce passion for innovation and spirit of independence. Its raison d’être is "making life more beautiful, passing on a more beautiful planet". - Operating in more than 150 countries, we are now the number one skincare company in Europe and are accelerating our development on all other continents, particularly in Asia and the Americas. - Because our 8,000 talents are unique, we are committed to promoting diversity in all its forms. - Do you want to help write the next chapter of our story? We are looking for a Business Analyst, APAC - based in Singapore. The Business Analyst, Asia-Pacific is part of the APAC FP&A team supporting Singapore Regional Hub and our subsidiaries within APAC region (Australia & New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan). This position is located in Singapore and will report to our APAC Financial Planning & Analysis Director (RFPAD). - The Business Analyst, Asia Pacific is a key business partner, whose daily mission is to deliver added value to the regional organization through a rigorous controlling expertise angle and through a palette of strategic studies. These studies are conducted to develop the business sustainably, give a clear vision of actual performance, identify the potential axis of improvements and accompany the decision makers with meaningful insights. - Acting as the interface between finance functions and business stakeholders, the Regional FP&A Team has four distinct roles as per below: - Reporting & Analysis: ability to explain the numbers, tell the business story in numbers, variance analysis, management report - Business Partnering: focus on value creation, act as business advisor and integrator, provide input into decision making process - Performance Management: track KPIs and provide insights to improve profitability and efficiency - Co-ordination and alignment : act as a bridge between global corporate FP&A and local country finance teams, ensuring regional plans align with global objectives **Regional Office (Singapore) Finance Business Partner** - On this part of the role, the Business Analyst will be responsible for the FP&A activities of the APAC regional office itself (cost centre control): - Acting as a key finance partner to Regional functional leads (e.g., marketing, supply chain, HR), as well as the Brand functional leads based in Singapore in the preparation and monitoring of their budgets - Responsible to co-ordinate the regional office budget, forecast, and business plan processes - Prepare the Budget/Re-estimate/BP P&L of the regional departments and take responsibility for relevant submissions in the Group consolidation tool (HFM) - Participate actively in the month-end closing, in close collaboration with Corporate Finance team, ensuring the necessary accruals are documented and appropriately reported in the correct cost centres - Perform variance analysis on a monthly basis vs budget/expectation and investigate with each department head the reasons for the variance - Prepare monthly and quarterly reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior management. - Liaise with Finance counterparts at central office (Paris) in relation to intercompany recharges to/from regional and brand departments **Balance Sheet & Working Capital Analysis** - On this part of the role, the perimeter extends to 9 markets for which the Business Analyst, Asia-Pacific will prepare analysis and reporting as well as make recommendations relating to Working Capital Management, including: - Prepare monthly consolidated reporting on Balance Sheet & Working Capital for APAC region - Monitor actual vs budget/re-estimate balance sheet and working capital submissions, analyzing actual against expectation and investigating any deviations or challenging any assumptions which are inconsistent - Collaborating with Treasury team to publish monthly APAC Balance Sheet deck for Senior Management - Consolidate CAPEX submissions across all APAC markets on a monthly basis (and for budget/re-estimate process), including analysis of actual vs expectation and obtaining explanations for any deviations **Strategic Market Analysis** - On this part of the role, the Business Analyst, Asia-Pacific will be responsible to: - Collaborate with Travel Retail team as well as Domestic Market teams to analyze the consolidated business view of the different channels, with a specific focus on China. Prepare monthly reporting and presentation for senior management summarizing the key trends, internally and vs competitors. - Develop and implement monitoring tools, as well as prepare analysis and recommendations across the APAC region - including but not limited to pricing, promotions, discounts etc. - Gather and consolidate other relevant market information and prepare analysis for regional management, to use in ide