Financial Controller

• Manage the financial planning process including budget / forecasting and month end closing. • As a business partner, to work closely with regional departments and country heads / country finance in-charge to conduct business review and make recommendations. • Provide key business insight to management with the objective to highlight opportunity or risks for management decision making. • Lead Open to buy process (OTB) by partnering with Merchandising team and keeping track of the performance to manage the inventory effectively. • Manage the balance sheet including optimizing working capital utilization and maximizing cash flow for the country particularly for inventory / capex projects / depreciation execution of inventory. • Reviewing and assisting with investment proposals (SOP) and the subsequent assessment of the effectiveness of investments. Coordinate with Paris to validate the SOP according to SOP procedures. • Interface with country, HQ, regional team for various projects related to SAP, OTB, POS information systems and finance related projects. • Interact with other management team members to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendation. • Coordinate with countries to ensure compliance with local regulatory, tax, audit and reporting requirement. • Support the Regional Chief Operating Officer to develop and coach the regional finance team and country finance team.