LVMH

Global luxury goods conglomerate owning brands

Business Controller

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSingaporeNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5–8 years of business controlling and/or audit experience.
A degree in business finance or accounting, or a related field.
Strong experience in a financial position within an international group.
Experience in luxury, FMCG, beauty, retail, and regional roles is preferred.
Ability to work independently and autonomously under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Strong business acumen, analytical thinking, and influencing skills.
Strong Excel and Access skills.
Knowledge of accounting and controlling.

Responsibilities

Support the preparation of monthly business reviews and drive the process, including industry and market trends, SWOT, scenario, and sensitivity analyses.
Partner with regional and country business-unit teams on ROI analysis, forward-looking decision support, inventory and incentive reviews, and control of advertising and promotion and trade spend.
Analyze monthly financial results and rolling forecasts, including monitoring financial performance against key performance indicators.
Provide financial insights and collaborate with the commercial team to support business growth within available resources.
Manage stakeholders and work with regional functional heads on projects critical to regional success.
Report business risks and opportunities transparently to senior management.
Challenge key business decisions using relevant reporting and analysis, and present data commercially to optimize costs and efficiency.
Analyze marketing spend, review vendor selections, and make recommendations.
Contribute to the effectiveness of internal controls in the financial planning and analysis function.
Participate in monthly closing in coordination with the operational team and accounting.
Analyze monthly delivery against financial targets and report recommendations to the business, joint venture, and global teams, including outlook, sell-out, sell-in, and monthly profit-and-loss closing.
Measure and analyze monthly discrepancies between actuals and targets by customer.
Support monthly reporting to headquarters, local finance, sales, and marketing teams.
Regularly analyze company financial-target delivery and report recommendations to the business.
Evaluate brand profitability and analyze profitability by customer and subsidiary according to brand-management needs.
Analyze business risks and prepare contingency plans to achieve business targets.
Check and analyze monthly profit-and-loss statements and prepare the monthly management report.
Handle local reports requested by regional and headquarters teams.
Support the Australia market in the absence of a local controller.
Prepare budget revisions in line with parent-company requirements and timelines, gathering timely and accurate information from local management and controlling teams.
Manage the entire budgeting process and coordinate inputs from internal stakeholders.
Build bottom-up budgets for each business division and central back-office costs, including finance, human resources, information technology, marketing, and legal.
Maintain cost-control responsibility; provide relevant reports and rationale, and recommend action plans for tight budget control.
Support the brand in preparing the three-year plan.
Prepare budget presentations for senior management.
Participate in implementing finance and information technology projects for controlling functions.
Continuously improve processing efficiency and the company's controlling capabilities.
Reinforce internal-control requirements and implement procedures as needed.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in luxury, FMCG, beauty, retail, and regional roles is preferred.

Job Description

Primary Functions and Responsibilities

Business Partnering

Support with monthly business reviews preparation and driving the process, industry and market trends and analysis, SWOT analysis, scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis.
Business partnering with regional/country BU team including but not limited to ROI analysis, forward looking decision support, inventory and incentive review, controlling A&P and trade spend.
Monthly analysis of financial results and rolling forecast. This includes monitoring of achievement of financial performance vs KPIs.
Provide financial insights and work collaboratively with the commercial team to support the business to grow with available resources.
Stakeholder management and work with Regional functional heads on projects that are critical for regional success.
Transparent reporting of risks and opportunities in business to senior management.
Takes part and challenges key business decisions using relevant reporting and analysis, and presenting data in a commercial way, to optimize costs and efficiency of activities.
Analyze the marketing spend, review vendor selections, and provide recommendations.
Contribute to the effectiveness internal control of FP&A function

Actuals

Participate to monthly closing in relationship with Operational Team & Accounting
Analyse the overall delivery of the financial targets monthly and report back to the business/joint venture/ global with recommendations as necessary (Outlook, Sell Out, Sell In, monthly P&L closing)
Monthly measure & analyse discrepancies between actual & targets by customers
Support Monthly reporting to HQ, local Finance & Sales team & marketing team
Analyze the overall delivery of company financial targets on a regular basis and report back to the business with recommendations as necessary
Evaluate profitability of the brand, analyze the profitability by customer and by subsidiary in accordance with brand management needs
Analyze the business risk and preparation of back-up plan for business target achievement
Check and analyze monthly P&Ls, and prepare the monthly management report
Handle local reports requested by the regional and HQ teams
Support Australia market in the absence of a local controller.

Forecasts (Budget, Revision, Landing, …)

Prepare budget revisions in accordance with parent company requirements and timetable, working with the local management and controlling teams to gather information in a timely and accurate way
Manage entire budgeting process, coordinating with all internal stakeholders for inputs
Build bottoms up budget for each business division and all back-office cost central including Finance, HR, IT, marketing and legal
Maintain cost control responsibility; provide relevant reports and rationale, with recommended action plans to the business for tight budget control
Support the brand in preparing the 3 years plan
Prepare budget deck for presentation to senior management

Projects

Participate in the implementation of finance / IT projects for the controlling functions
Continually seek to improve processing efficiency and controlling capabilities of the company
Reinforce internal control requirements and implement procedures as necessary

Qualifications

Candidate Profile

Profile

At least 5-8 years of Business Controlling and/or Audit experience
Business Financial or Accounting degree or related
Experience in luxury, FMCG, beauty or retail and regional role will be preferred
Strong experience in a financial position within an international group

Key Competencies

A team player and leader with excellent communication skills
Ability to work independently, highly autonomous, work under pressure for tight deadlines
Possess good business acumen with an analytical mind
Ability to adapt and be flexible to changing environment and business needs
High level of persuading and influencing skills
Proactive, meticulous with strong analytical thinking and business mind-set
Excellent communication skills
Well-organized, sensitive to figures, detail-oriented and commitment to accuracy

Technical Skills

System oriented (strong Excel and Access skills)
Accounting and controlling knowledge

Additional Information

About the Company

LVMH

Global luxury goods conglomerate owning brands

LVMH is a French luxury group that owns about 75 brands, called Maisons, across five divisions. Each Maison keeps its own identity while LVMH provides capital, expertise, and a global retail network, and it designs, makes, and sells products through its own boutiques, department stores, wholesale partners, and e-commerce, plus it invests in emerging brands via LVMH Luxury Ventures. Its portfolio covers Wines & Spirits, Fashion & Leather Goods, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Watches & Jewelry, and Selective Retailing, with brands such as Moët & Chandon, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co. The goal is to grow and sustain value of its luxury brands worldwide by expanding distribution, supporting new labels, and maintaining a leading position across its portfolio.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1923

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