COMPANY OVERVIEW
At Marou, our mission is to connect the world with award-winning Vietnamese chocolate. We are a vertically- integrated chocolate company dedicated to crafting the finest artisanal chocolates using only the highest quality ingredients. With a commitment to exceptional taste, sustainability, creativity, and design, we aim to provide a unique and indulgent chocolate experience to our customers. Our products are distributed worldwide, and we pride ourselves on maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
ROLE PURPOSE and OVERVIEW
Our Finance Team is responsible for all Legal Entities (currently HK, Vietnam, Singapore and France) & Business Units (Maison Marou, Domestic Wholesale and International Wholesale) within Marou. In Vietnam, our Head Office is in Thu Thiem, Ho Chi Minh City, our main manufacturing site is based in Binh Chieu, Ho Chi Minh City, with 4 regional central kitchens, and 20 Maison Marou retail/caf/patisserie locations.
Our Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, reporting to the CFO, works directly as a trusted business partner to drive breakthrough performance. They understand, anticipate and are proactively responsive to internal stakeholders expectations & needs. They encourage behaviors & actions to embrace future, growth, excellence & innovation. They embrace digitalization and maximize value creation and value protection. They drive the development of talent to deliver value-adding activities & fulfill new roles.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis Leadership
- Drive the strategic planning and support strategic initiatives of the company, including acquisitions and investment appraisal, by providing financial planning and financial models.
- Drive and manage the annual and periodic financial planning, forecasting, reporting and performance analysis across the business.
- Drive business unit, supply chain, cost center performance reviews. Provide commercial and financial insight and analysis of results, identifying underlying trends, risk and opportunities and partnering with internal stakeholders on actions to drive breakthrough business performance.
- Responsible for producing accurate, complete, timely and value-add management reports.
- Manage, communicate and implement company / functional KPIs. Define targets and monitor the actual KPI performance. Partner with internal stakeholders to drive Outstanding Key Results and drive positive actions to improve business and KPI performance.
- Provide training to internal stakeholders on business financial principles, budgeting, interpretation of business/financial results and performance management.
- Support internal Finance Team stakeholders to improve the accuracy, compliance, completeness and timeliness of accounting and financial reporting.
- Ensure the integrity of financial data supplied by the financial accounting team to other areas of the business and to external stakeholders.
- Drive the validation of investment and capital expenditure proposals. Prepare investment and capital expenditure proposals as required.
- Support internal stakeholders in business development, sales and pricing strategies, marketing and promotional activities, cost optimization, and overall through collaboration and business partnering drive value creation, value protection and breakthrough performance.
- Build a fit for purpose Financial Planning & Analysis team, with a collaboration & business partner mindset, built on a foundation of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Support the CFO in additional activities as required.
Digital Transformation
- Finance Key User for Financial Planning & Analysis
- With a data & digital mindset, drive the digital transformation implementation for Financial Planning & Analysis, including the design and implementation of dashboards and reports within a Power BI platform.
- Drive the standardization and implementation of Business Information Groupings & Hierarchies, Organization and Operational master data to support Business and Financial Performance Management
- User training on Planning, Reporting & Analysis.
- Design and implement Performance Management for Marou Group Finance and business units.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
- CMA, CFA, ACCA, or other relevant certifications required.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive finance experience, specifically in F&B, manufacturing / supply chain industries. At least 8 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Expertise in management accounting, business finance, financial planning, modelling, and performance management.
- Expertise in end-to-end business processes related to Marou business activities.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
- Expertise in MS Office and Power BI
- Expertise in financial & data analysis skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Bi-lingual in Vietnamese and English.
Working time: Monday - Friday
Working location: Green Building, 160 B2 Street, An Loi Dong Ward, Thu Duc City, HCMC.
