Job Description
Key Purpose of the Job
As part of the Asia Operations Finance Team, the Senior Financial Analyst will support Finance Leaders and Business Partners in delivering Monthly and Quarterly Analytics Reports, proactively streamlining and re-engineering the current way of doing things (including interaction with stakeholders, analytical framework, coordination within the team) through involvement in individual or groupwide projects and being a subject matter expert for the team in key reporting/analytical areas.
The individual will have the opportunity to gain a diverse experience in both technical and soft skills with areas in sourcing finance, financial modelling, dashboard visualization and project management. These experiences will provide a good foundation to grow into a leadership role or finance business partner role with more exposure to senior stakeholders.
Key Areas of Responsibilities
The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for:
- Coordinating with the remaining of the team to produce monthly and quarterly analytics report to US HQ and regional FP&A team, which includes analysis of internal and macro factors impacting COGS, assessing cost mitigation initiatives, understand movement/changes in COGS forecast and writing commentary to support the overall product cost headlines from a supply chain organization perspective.
- Re-engineering and streamlining the analysis framework to improve the process efficiency and insights quality to the stakeholders
- Being a Subject Matter Expert for the team for a designated topic (depending on the strengths of the individual)
- Coaching and supporting other Financial analyst including role modelling key behavioral qualities required for the role to be successful.
- Supporting in any ad hoc analysis and ad hoc projects.
Key Stakeholders
To develop a strong relationship with key stakeholders which includes multiple teams across Supply Chain Central Finance (US), PSO Finance (Panama), Finance Controllership (HK), Global Material Supply (HK), FP&A finance (HK), Designated Sourcing Divisions* (HK) and Brand Finance teams across US, EMEA and APAC.
These stakeholders are across multiple levels up to Senior Manager / Directors.
Major Challenges:
- Independent problem solving and capability to identify the “real problem” and comfortable with ambiguity or incomplete data to provide a reasonable assessment/output/conclusion.
- Prioritization of key deliverables, team projects, coaching and training wider team and managing own development areas.
- Strong communication/presentation skills with senior stakeholders.
- Overcome system limitation/constraints to provide analytical perspectives that supports business partners in making effective business decisions.
- Cross functional/team collaboration within a matrix organization across geographies and time zones.
- Agility and responsiveness to support finance leaders and other business needs
- Empowered to operate independently for further growth and development
Job Requirements
Minimum Relevant Experience:
5+ years of experience at a multinational company, with strong experience in Financial Planning and Analysis
Minimum Academic Requirement:
Degree holder in Finance / Economics / Accounting / Business Administration preferred, but other disciplines considered
Party of Internal Communication & Degree of Difficulty:
Cross-functional, global teams at all levels of VF
Required Written Language:
Fluent to native-level English
Required Oral Language:
- Fluent to native-level English
- Cantonese and /or Mandarin an advantage
Required Competencies and Behaviors
Expected to demonstrate most (but not necessarily all) of the following qualities: Independent problem solving and capability to identify the “real problem” and comfortable with ambiguity or incomplete data to provide a reasonable assessment/output/conclusion
- Advanced Excels skills to develop financial models for consolidation, forecasting and budgeting, scenario and sensitivity analysis, dashboard visualization and data manipulation.
- Analytical curiosity and application to solving a problem statement. Demonstrating proactiveness to learn, being inquisitive and linking information / data points to provide perspective on a problem or business requirement.
- Strong communication skills in communicating the insights to the business/regional finance team in a clear, easy-understandable way · Continuous learning and improvement mindset to lead or drive a change initiative (project) involving other stakeholders.
- Collaboration with others by sharing ideas, active participation in projects, take the lead in group discussions, provide training and presentations to a wider audience.
- Leading with empathy to provide coaching and guidance to other Financial Analysts.
- Cultural sensitivity and respecting different perspectives, values and viewpoints of all individuals.
Required Special Skills:
- Very strong knowledge in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Table, Financial Modelling), PowerPoint and Word
- Knowledge on Tableau/Knine/Excel Macro would be an advantage