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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 team expectations and group internal audit recommendations.
• Understand, educate then ensure team’ adherence to internal finance regulation and local legislation compliance.

COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT LEGAL ENTITY AND APAC REPORTING:

• Provide inputs (e.g. numbers and comments) in relation to SEA markets to Regional APAC team for monthly and budget consolidation, including but not limited to Net Invoicing and P&L.
• Actively collaborates with Accounting team to ensure entries are correctly booked and comply with the Group analytical classification manual. 
• Act as custodian for pricing maintenance in the system in relation to the Singapore Domestic/Agents business.
• Support in annual audit and tax for matters in relation to Singapore Domestic/Agents.

You Have: 

• Business degree, technically skilled and mathematically inclined with an-all rounded business understanding and acumen
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in FP&A functions covering regional role for sizable companies preferably specialized in the beauty, retail or FMCG industry ideally in the APAC region.
• Display a high degree of responsibility, integrity, attentive to details with an investigative nature. 
• Capacity to lead projects with stakeholders from various expertise background and cultures.
• Ability to clearly explain financial concepts in lay terms for non-financial collaborators.
• High level of initiative with an ability to commission, deploy and monitor effectiveness.
• People, Communication and Leadership skills with an ability to influence management.
• Time management efficiency and capable of prioritizing, ability to balance the demands of work with study commitments.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel 
• Workday, M3, Beaute Research, HFM and/or Cognos 
• English Fluency while French speaking is a plus 

We Have:

• 71 years of expertise in beauty and spa, with the Clarins and myBlend brands
• Unique products and innovative services 
• A commitment to Social & Environmental Responsibility embedded in our raison d'être 
• A caring and inclusive corporate culture 
• Development and training opportunities
• Attractive compensation and benefits 
• A flexible work environment, with up to 2 days of remote working per week
• If you have a curious mind, a thirst to go further and the drive to boldly take on new challenges, join us. 

At Clarins Group, we believe in making life more beautiful for our employees and our customers. Inclusion and diversity are firmly grounded in our core values, which are part of our DNA.  We strive to achieve inclusiveness and we foster an equal-opportunity culture where everyone can reach their full potential and do their best work. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

If you have additional needs that require an adaptation of the recruitment process, you can contact us at hr.sg@clarins.com

To learn more about our group and our commitments to people and the planet, visit www.groupeclarins.com.