Business Controller, South East Asia

**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 Controller, South East Asia & Agents Asia Pacific - based in Singapore. **FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS - BUDGETING AND STRATEGY** - Process owner of the budget cycle (Budget N+1 and bi-annual revisions) as well as for the year-long reporting (actuals) in order to provide the EVP South East Asia, APAC FP&A Director and all stakeholders with a proper objective framework and instant performance picture. - He/She provides guidance, coordination and consolidation on all FP&A matters, allowing for quality variation analysis in a timely fashion with the businesses and regional teams to produce monthly reporting and define necessary corrective actions. - Forges an independent opinion of the financial statements, allowing for clear cut risk and opportunities assessment, alongside with constructive and innovative financial advice on any business matters. Protects the value at any given time allowing to deliver a landing within set budget framework boundaries. - Assists management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction. **REPORTING EXCELLENCE AND VALUE ADDED TO THE BUSINESS** - Constantly reviews business operations and financial processes, identifies needs to support stakeholders and focuses on strengthening financial intelligence to serve business growth. - Partners with Singapore Domestic and Agents Teams to gather their insights related to the business performance and proposes improvements in the operational processes to ensure compliance and agility to the organization. - Ability to simplify esoteric financial information to develop a collective sense of financial responsibilities across departments. - Rigorously aims at improving work productivity and reporting efficiency. - Aims at maintaining communication dynamics among stakeholders, finds the right measures and reporting format for the business. - Organizes regular overall financial review (involving all stakeholders) or punctually targeted audience meetings (specific launch, P&L line focus, geographic zone ) always aiming at empowering collective ownership and management decision-making. **GETTING THE BASICS RIGHT - TIME MANAGEMENT & TOOLING** - Enables the timely processing of transactions, ongoing coding education, and accruals spread management and expense tracker alignment to produce the closest to reality MTD/YTD P&L upload possible. - Facilitates books closing in the most effective and timely manner to allow qualitative time for variation analysis and dialogue. - Financial dashboard custodian ensures about the collective responsibility to maintain constant information feed while improving sustainability, simplicity and accessibility. The dashboard encompasses the following reporting tools among others: - Net invoicing by franchise and by channel of distribution - Top line provisions follow up - Expense Budget Tracker monitoring - P&L by channel (e-commerce, retail, domestic) with focus on cost allocation - P&L by customer - A&P investments and COGS mix tracking - Price structure and retail coefficient by type of product - Forecast valorization and S&OP finance KPIs - Billing price management - ROI analysis (e.g. new boutiques opening) - Sell in/Sell out trend comparison - 3-year business plan update **OPTIMIZATION**: - Track the financial status and performance to identify areas for potential improvement. - Embark stakeholders in a perpetual cost optimization journey in all business areas to reallocate financial means where leverage is. - Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement authorities to engage dialogue and collective responsibility. - Take an active role in constructively challenging forecast meetings and methodology ahead of S&OP sign-off meetings. - Assist pricing/distributor margin determination to protect value despite external constraints (Competition, Forex, Retailers / Geographic Mix). **COMMUNICATION - EDUCATE, ENGAGE, CIRCULATE**: - Circulate tooling, methodologies across structures and exchange with Regional and Global counterparts for best practices inspiration. - Permanently challenging the status quo, anticipate projections and invite to corrective actions thinking. - Educate on “Why / How” tools implementation and maintain a documented system of working policies and procedures. - Ensure tooling sustainability in accordance with tea