Head of Business Finance, Fashion, SEAA

About the Role

The SEAA region includes Australia and New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and the export markets of Indonesia and the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The SEAA region will comprise the markets that demonstrate tremendous potential for growth, and will focus on deepening our footprint, brand growth through enhanced clienteling, and strengthened capabilities and infrastructure.

To bring to life the strategic intent of SEAA, the 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 make the news - connecting the internal and external insights and proactively drive and shape the governance of the local, regional and global agendas to inform business decisions.

Being the Head of Business Finance for Fashion, SEAA, you will be acting as the Divisional CFO in working with the regional Fashion division by acting as their sounding board, advocate and challenger and building a strong understanding of their business strategies. You will also be working in strong partnership with the market Business Finance team in delivering their mission of the function.

Impact You Can Create In The Role

• Partner with market business finance to ensure the global guidelines are cascaded to the markets by taking into consideration local relevancy.

• Lead the effort around Medium-Term Planning (MTP) and responsible for the heavy lifting.

• Explain the Budget and MTP guidelines, why certain decisions are being made, share best practices etc.

• Be the sounding board and challenger to the markets and offer coaching to them in delivering their mission.

• Partner with the regional Fashion division to develop and maintain financial modelling, perform ROI analysis, provide forecasts, and budgets to support operational and strategic planning.

• Provide dedicated support on Property & Portfolio through the lens of business finance.

• Stay abreast with industry trends and intelligence, and best practices such as macro factors and recommend appropriate course of strategic actions.

• Break down Global guidelines into more simple regional guidelines and targets.

• Consolidate and submit all the different reports to the global teams of good quality and accuracy and in a timely manner.

• Challenge the sales Forecasts, and OP to drive regional targets.

• Work in strong collaboration with the Sustainability Performance team for North Asia and SEAA to enable CSRD for SEAA.

• Assess and improve financial processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

• Prepare presentations for regional / global leadership teams and stakeholders communicating financial performance and strategic recommendations.

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators and financial metrics to identity trends and opportunities for improvement.

You are Energised by

• Working in strong collaboration with the market business finance teams to establish systematic approach in performing financial modelling, to maintain consistency in tracking data and translating insights for decision making.

• Being the advocate to the regional Fashion division and acting as the key enabler to their business strategies.

• Fostering a strong business finance community with the market business finance teams for Fashion and acting as the sounding board and challenger to them.

• Supporting market business finance to elevate their capabilities, from executional to being a truly strategic partner to the business.

What You Will Bring

• Concrete experience with proven track record in the capacity of Business Finance gained from sizeable companies.

• Demonstrate strategic financial planning and leadership skills in coaching and fostering professional growth of the team.

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a team-oriented environment along with strong stakeholder management skills.

• Self-motivated, flexible, and adaptable to changing priorities and new challenges.

• Outstanding analytical skills and strong attention to detail.

• Ability to think critically and creatively, and exercise good judgment.

• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and work in a high-performing culture with time-sensitive deadlines.

• Well-developed oral and written communication skills in English, including an ability to communicate complex subjects to a less technical audience.

• Good commercial awareness and business acumen.

• Well versed with data and to ride on data to inform decision making.

• Visionary, holistic thinking and able to connect the dots.

• Be innovative in looking for new ways of doing things with out-of-the-box thinking.

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.