The Opportunity
At Mot Hennessy, We Don't Just Create Exceptional Experiences - We Live Them.
For generations, our 27 Maisons, including Dom Prignon, Veuve Clicquot, and Hennessy, have defined luxury. Now, it's your turn. Imagine a career fueled by passion and creativity, where you redefine what's possible. We seek individuals who thrive in collaborative environments, sharing our love for craftsmanship, elegance, and integrity. We celebrate diversity and the pursuit of excellence.
The Mot Hennessy Finance team steers the business to greater sustainable profitable growth. Inherently connected to our business, we act as strategic business partners, while also ensuring reliable and timely financial data and insights on which to make decisions. As storytellers, we bring to life the financial results in ways our business partners can leverage. It is our duty to ensure that everyone contributes to the protection of our assets through high levels of internal control across our organization. Focused on efficiency and agility, we are relentlessly improving the way we operate, promoting best-in-class tools and continuous learning, as well as enabling change for our entire organization.
How you will contribute
- Business partnering with assigned markets & Maisons
- Lead Financial Analysts to support the finance planning/reporting for markets
- Facilitate and coordinate smooth and efficient relationships between Region/Markets and MH & Maisons, to ensure that key messages on the Region's business performance are received and understood, and conversely that MHAO is well equipped with global information & tools required to run and develop the business.
- Liaise with assigned Markets & Maisons on a regular basis for all financial matters (reporting, analysis, budget/planning,), and provide necessary support and assistance
- Develop sound knowledge of assigned markets covering economy, business, competition, and financial matters and become a key go-to person to the assigned markets
- Lead and participate in monthly business review meeting
- Deliver timely, accurate & qualitative communication of business performance
- Elaborate financial simulation for business strategy
- Consolidation, Analysis and Reporting of Markets performance (actual and forecast)
- Pricing - liaising with respective Maisons to ensure regional and global consistency and alignment
Management Reporting, Planning and Analysis
- Support Head of FP&A in animating the financial planning process for Asia Pacific domestic business, with dedicated attention on MH Private and E-commerce.
- Prepare and automate Actual & Forecast reporting packages including analysis on Volumes, Net Sales Income, Pricing, Marketing spend, Overheads, down to Operating Profit
- Participate on the design, preparation, and automation of a manual Profit Variance Analysis tool for the region.
- Provide accurate & thorough commentary to explain the business performance versus budget/forecast and last year results(Year to date & Year to go)
- Investigate any significant monthly variances to forecast and take corrective actions/ feedback when appropriate
- Analyze and provide insights on strategic business dynamics & trends, analyze the changes & factors affecting business performance and highlight any financial issue requiring management attention
- Consolidate and prepare the Mid-Month Forecast Report with relevant commentary
Animating the regional controlling community
- Be a key player in the Regional Controlling Community, and provide support by facilitating / leading financial community activities
- Be the regional functional expert on Overheads and A&P topics: ensure clear communication and documentation of regional/MH/LVMH guidelines within the region & alignment of local processes with these guidelines, encourage sharing of information and best practices between markets controllers.
- Be the regional contact for MH central team in the deployment of the global monitoring tool for A&P within Asia Pacific
Presentations and ad-hoc analysis
- Preparation of the supporting templates for presentation of the results to the management and headquarters (MH & Maisons business reviews)
- Support Regional management on company strategy projects and perform necessary financial simulations for management review and decision
KEY SELECTION CRITERIA
- At least 8 years of experience in Financial Controlling in a multinational FMCG or luxury company
- Education - University degree in Business / Commerce / Economics
- Good knowledge of current accounting and financial practices
- Excellent analytical and interpretive skills
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Good presentation skills - able to prepare and deliver impactful presentations to senior management
- Strong in project management and ability to plan, organize and prioritize well
- Able to work under pressure and to adhere to strict deadlines
- Ability to manage complexity and to simplify and recommend practical solutions
- Change manager - enjoys identifying improvements and is practical in making changes happen
- Integrity and Trust - widely trusted and honest. Adheres to MH Values
- Curious, action-oriented, motivated, energetic and enthusiastic
- Fluent in English with proficiency of other language(s) will be an advantage
- Willing to travel and to make frequent and sometimes unplanned travels to the markets
