Japanese Speaking Regional Senior Commercial Manager (ID: 657618)

Our client, a well-known company, is looking for candidates for the position of Regional Senior Commercial Manager (Japanese Speaking).

Responsibilities:

• Supervising and making appropriate decisions and direction regarding all the Back Office Functions; FP&A, HRGA, Legal, and IT.
• The strategic planning, implementation, managing and running of all the finance activities of a company, including business planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk and governance as well as negotiations.

Back-Office Team Management:

• Provide leadership and guidance to the subordinates, ensuring that they are aligned with the company's goals and values.

FP&A Management & Operation:

• Draw up and manage the yearly budget (Sales Revenue, Returns, Inventory, COGS, Expenses, PL etc.).
• Manage Business Performance tasks (Progress Management / Data Analysis / Proposals / Reporting of Sales Revenue, Returns, Inventory, COGS, Expenses, PL etc.).
• Perform monthly tracking and analysis of the in-house company's budget and actual results (analyzing sales by product, customer, and geography).
• Optimize the use of financial and business information, develop and prepare local management reports to support business in decision making.
• Lead the company monthly close process with accounting team and supporting financial analysis and reporting.
• Generate monthly business review package and manage the company’s finance expectation through deliverable.
• Analyse monthly / quarterly P&L, Profit Contribution, all kinds of reports and discuss the deviation from budget with relevant business managers; discuss / monitor action plans to overcome negative deviations.
• Being the local planning Coordinator and responsible for local internal planning calendar (budget, forecast, mid-term financial plan).
• Support the Business during the planning process with tool support, reviewing and questioning planning result.
• Frequent communication with business function to drive strategy forward and achieve target planned.
• Periodic forecasting and concrete gap analysis compared to actual result to meet bottom line finalized.
• Manage the inventory and order figures from financial perspective based on business performance.
• Draw up the P&L of both new store opening and store closure by collaborating with stakeholders.
• Cope with internal audit tasks.
• Provide support for the in-house company's transactions with client.
• Perform risk management and internal/external and accounting audits as a legal entity by collaborating with the Finance team of parent company.

Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience in FP&A.
• 3+ years’ experience in team management.
• Japanese language proficiency to liaise with Japan HQ.