Senior Financial Planning Analyst

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/café/patisserie locations.

Our Financial Planning & Analysis Team, 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 skills to deliver value-adding activities & fulfill new roles.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Planning & Analysis - General

• Support the strategic planning and strategic initiatives of the company, including acquisitions and investment appraisal, by providing financial planning and financial models.
• Support the annual and periodic financial planning, forecasting, reporting and performance analysis across the business.
• Drive business unit and 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.
• Produce accurate, complete, timely and value-add management reports.
• Monitor 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.
• Support 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.
• Support the CFO and FP&A Manager in additional activities as required.
• Prepare supply chain COGS budgets and forecast updates. Correctly identify fixed costs, variable costs, direct costs, indirect costs and correctly allocate these costs against products/product categories.
• Analyze actual vs budgeted COGS, and proactively partner with internal stakeholders to assess variance drivers, communicate and manage associated implications.
• Assist in the analysis of Gross Margin, partnering with internal stakeholders, and proactively identify action plans for Gross Margin protection.
• Provide accurate costing estimates for new products.

Procurement Cost Management

• Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and forecasting for procurement related costs
• Assist in the analysis of procurement spend vs budget, partnering with internal stakeholders
• Assist in the analysis of vendor and product spend analysis, identifying opportunities for consolidation and cost optimization.
• Participate in the review of vendor selection assessments.
• Prepare/support the preparation of CAPEX budgets.
• Proactively support the management of CAPEX budget costs.

Digital Transformation

• With a "data" & "digital" mindset, support the digital transformation implementation for Financial Planning & Analysis, including the design and implementation of financial planning & analysis business processes, systems and dashboards and reports within a Power BI platform.

QUALIFICATION & 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 5 years of progressive finance experience, specifically in F&B, manufacturing / supply chain industries. At least 3 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Expertise in management accounting, business finance, financial planning, modelling, and performance management.
• Strong understanding in end-to-end business processes related to Marou business activities.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 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