Business Finance Manager, Corporate

Job Mission:

To support the House’s growth and long-term performance, the Business Finance Manager acts as a strategic finance co-pilot at market level, combining forward-looking analytics, business insight, and strong governance.

The role goes beyond consolidating performance to shape the market financial narrative, connect insights across divisions and functions, and contribute to informed, data-driven decision making. Leveraging digital tools, automation, and AI, the role ensures efficient, scalable, and high-quality financial processes, enabling a focus on value creation rather than manual reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

Market FP&A & Performance Steering

• Lead consolidation of market financials across divisions and corporate functions (budget, forecasts, strategic plans)
• Own the market performance narrative, integrating financial and business insights into coherent analysis
• Deliver forward-looking analysis, scenarios, and risk/opportunity assessments to support decision making
• Drive monthly performance cadence, variance analysis, and alignment across stakeholders
• Ensure consistency, quality, and relevance of KPIs, reporting frameworks, and planning assumptions

Finance Business Partner – Corporate Functions

• Act as finance partner to corporate functions (TDS, P&O, Supply Chain, Communications, Legal & Regulatory)
• Provide financial insight, guidance, and recommendations on costs, structure, and efficiency
• Support decision making through business cases, scenario analysis, and performance tracking
• Ensure alignment between functional strategies and overall market financial objectives

Planning, Governance & Process Excellence

• Lead and continuously improve planning processes (Budget, Forecast, LE, MTP) with focus on speed, accuracy, and simplicity
• Strengthen governance through robust frameworks, assumptions, and cross-functional alignment
• Ensure harmonization across divisions, functions, and regional expectations

Digital, Systems & Transformation

• Drive adoption of finance systems, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual work and enhance insight generation
• Act as a finance systems and data champion, leveraging tools to improve efficiency and scalability
• Lead or contribute to finance and business transformation initiatives

Projects & Strategic Initiatives

• Lead or support cross-functional business and finance projects at market level
• Build robust business cases with scenario modeling and post-investment reviews
• Contribute to shaping business models, operational frameworks, and governance

Role Specifications:

Academic / Professional Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration with major in Finance, Accounting, Management Systems, or Economics, or Quantitative Finance
• Thorough knowledge of accounting / financial concepts and principles

Work Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years working experience, inclusive of 3-5 years of managerial experience
• Solid experience in the FMCG, retail industry, manufacturing, or Fragrance & Beauty / Fashion / Watches & Fine Jewelry industry
• Some experience of doing business in multinational / APAC environment would be ideal

Required Competencies

• Strategic co-pilot mindset
• Strong business acumen and financial storytelling
• Planning & performance management expertise
• Digital, systems, automation, and AI proficiency
• Governance & control mindset
• Curiosity, agility, and continuous improvement mindset
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong Excel skills required
• Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models
• Entrepreneur, motivated and driven – mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”
• Ability to see both the big picture and the details
• Personality types that thrive on new ideas and creative thinking, rather than just number crunching