Business Finance Analyst - Taiwan

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Job Mission:In order to deliver a competitive advantage to our company, Business Finance function needs to be agile and dynamic, founded on insights from advanced analytics and tools, proactive business partnering with the aim to influence strategic decision where possible.With the ever changing business environment and technologies, there have been significant changes in the role of the Business Finance function, as it pivots towards a more predictive and analytical future as opposed to descriptive analysis.We shall no longer just report the news but help making the news. Connect the internal and external insights and proactively drive and shape the governance of the local, regional or global agendas for business discussions.Our job is to provide Smart Analytics that can be turned into actionable insights and enables management to effectively solve their business problems. Smart analytics are:

• Relevant: it makes a difference, especially with regard to making predictions
• Timely: it’s relevant now
• Faithful: it’s complete, neutral, and error-free
• Verifiable: it can be replicated and verified
• Actionable: it’ true to what it claims to represent and is deemed beneficial to the user
• Understandable: it’s quickly comprehensible by those familiar with the situation
  

Our role will be multifunctional: performed as Risk professionals, BI experts, Managers driving on risk management, Modelers, Idea-generators and Business Partners working side-by-side, creating synergetic teams with strategic vision and enormous analytical capabilities.Business Skills & Leadership Attributes

• Agile: The position would need to work independently and be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity. Be curious to find out what we don’t know, a proactive and continuous learner.
• Relationships-focused: Be collaborative with various teams including finance, business and other corporate functions at local, regional and global. Proactively provide solutions and supports to stakeholders
  

Key Responsibilities:The position supports Business Finance Manager on:

• Proactively provides value-added financial analyses, modelling, advisory and insights into business performance and, whether at regional, divisional or local level to drive business performance management and to influence management decision making.
• Profitability and productivity scope 360 – by customer/by area, by division and consolidated. By channel of distribution / point of sale and product category. The focus is qualitative profitability growth while never compromising on our brand equity
• Utilize robust and advanced analytics to derive business scenarios, predictive and predictive analysis to drive business decisions
• Coordinate with business partners and budget owners on monthly performance meeting for actual vs. budget variance analysis, sales and expense forecast updates, perform deep dive of expenses
• Preparation of planning and forecasts of various planning and reporting cycles
• Design necessary reporting templates for business and budget owners to achieve efficient and effective forecast
• Drive inventory management with divisions through reviewing “Open to Buy” proposals with commercial teams, sales forecast, follow up on Stock Obsolescence and write offs
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and presentation as required by senior management
  

The position also requires independently establishment of regular cadence with business partners for monthly budget vs actual analysis, sales and expense forecast updates and drive improvements to operating expense efficiency and forecasting.Role Specifications: Please explicitly describe the Functional and Business knowledge required for the roleAcademic / Professional Qualifications

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

Work Experience

• Minimum 3 years working experience
• Solid experience in the retail industry of F&BP / FA / W&FJ is preferred

Required Competencies

• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Agile, commercial curiosity and business acumen
• Strong Excel skills required, fluency in SQL or other big data querying languages would be an advantage
• A genuine interest in learning systems and becoming a ‘power user’
• Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models
• Strong interpreter of data
• Attention to details
• Innovative: This is the paramount skill
• Personality types that thrive on new ideas and creative thinking, rather than just number crunching
  

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.