Finance Director

Location
SHANGHAI
Salary
Competitive
Posted
12 Feb 2018
Closes
05 Mar 2018
Job role
Finance director
Experience level
Director
Responsibility: • Overall responsibility for FP&A, and work with LMS Shared services to deliver set objectives in Internal Controls, Tax, Accounting and GL and working with LMS • Formulate Service Level Agreement with LMS and drive fulfilment of service level by LMS Shared Service • Lead financial analyses, forecasting and planning • Coordination and lead the following financial business process for the CHINA SU - Annual business plan/forecasting; financial reporting, strategic planning, quarterly updates and latest thinking, Monthly Flash & Sales Forecast & Mid-month Reviews, Weekly Sales Forecast calls, Funnel Management etc • Lead the monthly closing activities (coordinate with LMS Shared Service for financial accounting), such as gather inputs, perform data analytics, prepare the management review deck (including powerpoint decks) • Lead the streamlining monthly, quarterly and yearly process to ensure accurate P/L reporting and forecasting • Drive adoption of standardized reporting, analytics and data management • Formulate dashboards, benchmarking and other analytics to proactively alert the organization about performance and issues. • Business Partnering - Provide strong commercial/financial decision support to CHINA SU team and ensure financial discipline in business decisions • Document Standard Works, Drive Continuous improvements, ensure 100% internal controls and SOX compliance and always challenge status quo • Review and Challenge Funnel, Demand Forecast & Financial Forecast by Business • Drive Distributors (via Operations) to collect and analyse In market Sales, Distributor Inventory accuracy and reporting • Oversight responsibility in Pricing analysis & Pricing Targets • Recruit the best, motivate and develop Finance Team in China Requirement: • Minimum Bachelor degree / ACCA (> 13 years' experience) with CPA • Strong Integrity and Technical Skills • Excellent Leadership & Interpersonal Skills • Independent and experience in Building a team • Strong in Internal Controls and able to build Standard works and process re-engineering • Experience in managing a Commercial Operations of >US$100M • Strong in Business Partnering & financial planning and analysis (for Commercial Operations) • Experience in managing and coordination with Shared Service Center (including understanding of Compliance, Tax, Audit and Financial Accounting) • Excellent systems skills- MS office, SAP BW/ Business Objects and SAP rollout/design experience • Cognos, TM1, Qilkview, Lucanet or any Reporting/ Planning tool experience