Ice Cream - Finance Business Partner Manager

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

Finance Business Partner/Manager to drive IC Transformation. Building a sustainable & winning business model,

 maximizing their strategic investment for growth, decision support, strategy formulation and putting strategy into action.

PIC would require good business senses & analytical thinking, strong communication & partnering skills to give financial advices to the team to drive business.

Main Accountabilities

• Work with Business leader to develop business model for short term and long-term business success.
• Commercially shape the medium to long term direction of the business Lead the Transformation P&L covering end to end operations (SC, CD, Marketing and MT/DT Operations)
• Lead the finance business partnering role in relation to CD regarding to Customer performance management, decision support, performance analytics and intervention.
• Define trade terms of customers to ensure fair and equitable (TTS, credit limit, distributors’ collateral…) and partner with CD for the trade terms negotiation with customers.
• Work with National Finance team (Controller) to set up the end-to-end Finance operation with the new business model.
• Identify and drive the development and implementation of Gross Margin roadmaps across the business
• Drive the development and implementation of Profitability and Cash management.
• Maximize the translation of external environment (customers/retailers/competitors) into internal intelligence for the business.
• Lead team to support delivery, including many layers of delivering through others (direct team, other finance teams)
• Together with CD Excellence Function to analyse big data to identify more growth opportunities.

Requirement

• High levels of drive & determination to deliver tangible results improvement
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Ability to work with cross functional team environment
• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience required

• Over 5+ years experiences in business partnering roles preferably within Marketing or CD, with strong strategic thinking and strong engagement to stake holders.
• Ability to balance the big picture / long term aspect of country strategic plan, with key in-year performance interventions required to ensure the business remains on the right path  
• Experience of working in cross functional teams within a matrix environment desirable.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in and outside Vietnam
• Manage & inspire team with new way of working, new capabilities and drive insights to actions
• Some M&A and business Transformation experience as a plus

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