Senior Finance Business Partner

Are you energized by a finance role that allows you to engage senior stakeholders and build highly effective business partnerships?  If so, the Finance Business Partner role could be an excellent opportunity to explore.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will use your finance expertise to build partnerships with the business, and help drive the strategic business plan, supporting strategy and decision making with critical financial insights.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

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• Assist Commercial Team (BD, Trade Marketing, and Marketing,..) in developing and evaluating their promotions, pricing and trade terms plans.
• Drive post-promotion evaluation (NPD, ROI on promotion.), distilling the key learning and driving improved ROI.
• Prepare, control and monitor the spending of A&P (Advertising & Promotion) and G2N by brands and channels. Drive channel P&L review with each channel head.
• Analyze and manage company cash flow (debtors, stock, payment term,) by optimizing inventory in distribution and working with distributor to achieve Neutral Working Capital (NOC)
• Work with other functions (especially legal team) to prepare supplier, customer’s contracts aligned with company strategy and legal requirements.
• Co-ordinate with commercial, marketing and supply chain  in Core Commercial Cycle (pre DRM, DRM, BDOM). As part of CCC, drive Marketing Investment Review meeting
• Perform pricing for each product including analysis to assist Marketing or Commercial for decision making.
• Perform DAV price declaration and support DAV audit when needed
• Educate stakeholders groups on financial aspects of business decisions and resource allocations
• Validate costing on 3 party manufacturers to have better decision on yearly contract review if any.
• Monitor distributor activities
• Manage TSM (Trade Spend Management) in CERP with cross commercial team including HOD to ensure comply with SOP. Perform and drive Management Monitoring quarterly with Commercial champions and escalate to FD and GM if any issue on internal control.  
• Work closely with Local and Area Commercial excellence in setting, monitoring the NRM (Net Revenue Management) and deliver NRM targets.
• Working closely with C&C and P&F Finance service in KL on MEC and CMF/Planning including balance sheet management and monitoring related to finance commercial part.
• Drive alignment and discussion meeting with senior stakeholders including FD, GM to get decision
• Support internal and external audit, Tax & Stat, and other local compliance requirement according to local law.
• Key contact for Area FBP/ Finance HUB and local senior stakeholder in any FD’s absence case.
• Other ad-hoc tasks assigned by line manager

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University degree at Business/Accounting/Economics is preferred.
• Candidate must have recognized professional accounting certification (ACCA/CPA/CIMA),or is currently pursuing one.
• At least 5 years’ experience in the same role in a FMCG / Pharma industry.
• Strong commercial analytical skills, growth and enterprise mindset
• Pro active and self motivated and capable of working in a complex and challenging environment
• Positive and supportive attitude
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Power Point.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experienced in using SAP
• Effective knowledge of all accounting standards, including IFRS, US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley
• Developing highly effective working relationships and to achieve the partnership status with your business

Why Haleon?

Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.
• Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.
• Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.
• Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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