SR Finance Manager, Global Direct E-Commerce

Role Description

This role involves supporting the Head of Global Direct E-Commerce (GDE) on a journey of consistent sales growth and profit improvement, while ensuring strong processes and controls are in place on financial planning & reporting.

• Support the Head of GDE and his team in making financially sound decisions, drive profitable sales growth and improve contribution margin.
• P&L ownership for the GDE Business.
• Business & financial performance analysis & reporting of the GDE business.
• Ensure plans reflected in the forecast submissions can be reasonably achieved and/or that material deviations to these plans are transparently communicated.
• Financial planning (short-term but also multi-year).
• Help improve communication & guidance with the Regions, to ensure harmonization in the way the GDE performance is being analyzed.
• Play a key finance advisory role in GDE development & expansion projects.
• Financial modeling of business opportunities.
• Business partnering with GDE teams.
• Guardian of GDE accounting rigor & compliance.
• Transform the way we collect, analyze & use underlying e-commerce data.
• Manage a small team of analysts who focus on the GDE underlying business drivers.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree, with a specialization in Finance or Accounting.
• 10+ years in FP&A or ‘Business Finance’ roles, in international environments like FMCG, Consumers’ Electronics or PC industry.
• Previous finance experience supporting an online business (Highly preferred).
• People management experience (Highly preferred).
• Solid business acumen and judgment.
• Sound analytical skills.
• Ability to interpret data.
• Ability to do financial modeling & build business cases.
• Expert MS Excel / Gsheet user.
• Familiar with FP&A tools like Oracle Hyperion, Anaplan, SAP Analytics, etc. and BI tools like Tableau, Qlik sense, Power BI.
• Used to working in matrix/functional structures.
• Enjoy fast changing business context in an informal culture.
• Capable of bringing structure while enabling pace and control.
• Self-motivated.
• Familiar with multicultural context.
• At ease in communication with management.
• Fluent in English; any other language(s) a plus.

Benefits