About Us
Established in 1972, Guardian Health & Beauty is Singapore’s Number 1 Health and Beauty retailer. With more than 126 stores nation-wide, it retails a comprehensive range of health & beauty products. Guardian has evolved from its pharmacy roots to a holistic one-stop solution for customers’ health and beauty needs. It continues to expand its products and service range to meet the redefinition of beauty by today’s customers – where health meets beauty.
With a strong health heritage, it has the largest network of award-winning pharmacists and a wide selection of health products. Professional services such as patient-care counselling, dispensary services, beauty and personal care solutions are offered at stores as a convenient one-stop for health and beauty. Guardian also operates its online store with more than 9,000 products available and offers the “Click & Collect” services. For more information, please visit www.guardian.com.sg. Follow Guardian Health & Beauty on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Youtube and TikTok.
Guardian Health & Beauty is a Progressive Wage (PW) mark accredited company.
Role Purpose
Your role will focus on driving business performance discussions by delivering relevant reports and commentary that provide valuable insights. These insights will play a critical role in influencing the Finance team and supporting stakeholders with meaningful analysis.
You will need to demonstrate strong financial acumen and foster collaborative partnerships with commercial leaders across Asia, positioning yourself as a trusted and integral member of their teams.
Additionally, you will identify and pursue opportunities for innovative analysis of merchandise and category trends, as well as emerging market issues, to support Commercial Finance and Strategy initiatives in the region.
Responsibilities
- Shape the role of financial business partnership in Asia, working closely with senior commercial leadership team to lead and develop the annual budget and re-forecasts including commentary for regular business review
- Lead and support development the financial strategy needed to support category and business objectives
- rovide complete, accurate and timely management reporting and business insights to senior management
- Lead the budget and forecasting process including planning, budgeting and forecasting of sales, margins and working capital
- Responsible for providing enhanced commercial reporting and insights of key KPIs, including deep dive root cause analysis, identify cost savings opportunities
- Provide analytical support to other functions as requested
- Support financial and strategic projects as requested
- Supervise business cases for any new business initiatives
- Lead and initiate enhancements to reporting and insight generation
About You
- A CA/CPA/CIMA/CFA qualification
- Experience in leading and managing a team
- 5+ years of relevant commercial finance experience working with complex organisations, turnaround, face paced environment, preferably within supermarket retail, big4 and strategy consulting
- Proven experience in structured problem solving with the ability to identify financial opportunities / issues and implement continuous improvement
- Strong management and influencing skills
- The ability to review processes to understand impacts on financial outcomes and make recommendations for improvement
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills
- Exceptional in engaging, collaborating and influencing both financial and non-financial stakeholders such as Commercial / Merchandising / Buying, Supply Chain, Operations functions
- Strong culture awareness in Asia, a good command of English and Asian language (verbal and written)
- Strong strategy and project manage experience, including project planning, scheduling and accountability management
- Ability to facilitate and orchestrate complex discussions, engage participants in collaborative, drive meetings forward whiles effectively handling conflicting opinions
- A “gravitas” so as to hold the business to account in delivery its performance objectives
Benefits
- Team Member Discount
- Subsidized Medical and Dental Benefits
- Training Opportunities
- Career Advancement
Working Location: Tampines North
