Finance Business Partner

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

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.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

Are you looking for an opportunity to utilize your financial, analytical and system support skills in the Consumer Goods environment?  If so, this could be the role you are looking for.

The Finance Business Partner role-holder will work with the dedicated market commercial business units as well as other functions to address the requirements for financial analysis for strategic and business planning, budgeting, reporting as well as other ad hoc requests.  The role-holder will ensure a high level of service is provided and will help stakeholders and management to drive the business to meets its objectives. This role reports directly to Finance Director

 This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Finance:

• Assist Commercial Team (CD, Trade Marketing, and Marketing) in developing and evaluating their promotions, pricing and trade terms plans for decision making. Review STP proposed by commercial team before route to FD approval for relevant category.
• Drive post-promotion evaluation (NPI, ROI on promotion.), distilling the key learning and driving improved ROI.
• Control budget and monitor the spending of A&P and G2N by brands and channels with Commercial team.
• Analyze and monitor company working capital (debtors, stock, payment term) by optimizing inventory in distribution and working with distributor to achieve Neutral Working Capital (NOC). Improvement/ simplify AR WoW with Distributor
• Develop and perform business cases to support commercial decision making and present the business case to GM and ILT for decision making.
• Drive and perform channel P&L review meeting to improve investment efficiency and support on channel investment strategy. 
• Support Net Revenue Management project for cost optimization and investment efficiency including field force efficiency with commercial team.
• Develop and perform pricing for each product to assist Marketing or Commercial for decision making. Perform the DAV price registration for finance part for OTC related products.
• Support for TSM (Trade Spend Management) and monitor G2N efficiency with reconciliation.
• Closely partnership with Distributor to monitor distributor’s activities.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders on financial aspects and way of working to comply with tax and local pharma laws especially trade investment.
• Support on Finance LSOP or process guidance to commercial team if any.
• Support for other business projects if any.

Operation Finance:

• Partnership with FCRA and P&F Finance service in KL for month end closing, forecasting and planning, balance sheet management and other financial matter investigation.
• Support MPR/Plan deck with more business insight and analysis for relevant category in charge .
• Key role player in Core Commercial Cycle (pre-DRM, DRM)
• Support on annual Transfer Price process with FCRA team
• In charge for related to ICFW control (Finance control) and other internal control.
• Support internal and external audit.
• Other ad-hoc task assigned by FD.

Key Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University degree at Business/Accounting/Economics and any professional finance certification (ACCA, CIMA) is preferred. 
• At least 3-5 years’ experiences in similar Finance position in a FMCG or consumer healthcare industry.
• Good English Written and Spoken Communication skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Power Point.
• Experienced in using SAP/TSM/Bison 
• Relevant FMCG / OTC experience will be added advantage.
• Proactive and self-motivated and capable of working in a complex and challenging environment including hard work.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.

Competencies:

• Having knowledge about Vietnamese tax law and accounting standard, pharma law knowledge is an advantage. 
• Drive for results through an understanding of the dynamics of the market, and how to exploit trading opportunities through innovative thinking.
• Strong business and customer focus. Ability to create a business plan which brings together commercial and cross functional elements in a manner which is clear and practical to implement.
• Work well under pressure and can deal effectively with ambiguity.
  Demonstrated problem solving skills and flexibility, to drive excellent performance.

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.