Finance Director, China Sales

About the role

We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science. We do this through our Win as One strategy, which puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities

• Perform finance partnering activities at a management level to support strategy and decision making with critical business insights, supporting China Sales VP and China Sales teams.
• Support development of a strong Finance Business Partnering organization.
• Lead finance business partnering team to support the end-to-end offline sales operations across Wellness and OTC with the responsibility to deliver £800m Net Sales and £370m Profit for Haleon China (2024 plan reference).
• Assist in developing an offline sales strategy that leverages high growth and high return opportunities to deliver both short-term and long-term business commitments for the respective categories.
• Drive trade spending efficiency and harmonization of trading terms between Wellness and OTC categories.
• Keep key stakeholders informed of changes impacting the business.
• Collaborate with business partners to investigate requirements and problems and to seek effective business solutions through improvements in data management processes and procedures.
• Demonstrate cross-functional matrix navigation and management.
• Support people development and manage a team of 3 to 5 senior managers/managers.

Requirements

• MBA, preferably in Management, Finance, or Accounting with approximately 15 years of MNC commercial finance working experience.
• Strong analytics training or experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing or working with a global team and global stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and compare complex data from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated ability to determine and communicate the legal, financial, and ethical interpretation of industry-regulated principles.
• Ability to effectively influence commercial and finance partners with strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills; challenges and questions how things are done to drive for results and provides a range of options.

Preferred Qualifications

• Finance business partnering experience in a leadership position from the consumer industry.
• In addition to Mandarin and English skills, Cantonese speaking skill is desired.