Job Mission:
To support the House’s growth and long-term performance, the Business Finance Manager acts as a strategic finance co-pilot at market level, combining forward-looking analytics, business insight, and strong governance.
The role goes beyond consolidating performance to shape the market financial narrative, connect insights across divisions and functions, and contribute to informed, data-driven decision making. Leveraging digital tools, automation, and AI, the role ensures efficient, scalable, and high-quality financial processes, enabling a focus on value creation rather than manual reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
Market FP&A & Performance Steering
- Lead consolidation of market financials across divisions and corporate functions (budget, forecasts, strategic plans)
- Own the market performance narrative, integrating financial and business insights into coherent analysis
- Deliver forward-looking analysis, scenarios, and risk/opportunity assessments to support decision making
- Drive monthly performance cadence, variance analysis, and alignment across stakeholders
- Ensure consistency, quality, and relevance of KPIs, reporting frameworks, and planning assumptions
Finance Business Partner – Corporate Functions
- Act as finance partner to corporate functions (TDS, P&O, Supply Chain, Communications, Legal & Regulatory)
- Provide financial insight, guidance, and recommendations on costs, structure, and efficiency
- Support decision making through business cases, scenario analysis, and performance tracking
- Ensure alignment between functional strategies and overall market financial objectives
Planning, Governance & Process Excellence
- Lead and continuously improve planning processes (Budget, Forecast, LE, MTP) with focus on speed, accuracy, and simplicity
- Strengthen governance through robust frameworks, assumptions, and cross-functional alignment
- Ensure harmonization across divisions, functions, and regional expectations
Digital, Systems & Transformation
- Drive adoption of finance systems, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to reduce manual work and enhance insight generation
- Act as a finance systems and data champion, leveraging tools to improve efficiency and scalability
- Lead or contribute to finance and business transformation initiatives
Projects & Strategic Initiatives
- Lead or support cross-functional business and finance projects at market level
- Build robust business cases with scenario modeling and post-investment reviews
- Contribute to shaping business models, operational frameworks, and governance
Role Specifications:
Academic / Professional Qualifications
- University degree in Business Administration with major in Finance, Accounting, Management Systems, or Economics, or Quantitative Finance
- Thorough knowledge of accounting / financial concepts and principles
Work Experience
- Minimum 8-10 years working experience, inclusive of 3-5 years of managerial experience
- Solid experience in the FMCG, retail industry, manufacturing, or Fragrance & Beauty / Fashion / Watches & Fine Jewelry industry
- Some experience of doing business in multinational / APAC environment would be ideal
Required Competencies
- Strategic co-pilot mindset
- Strong business acumen and financial storytelling
- Planning & performance management expertise
- Digital, systems, automation, and AI proficiency
- Governance & control mindset
- Curiosity, agility, and continuous improvement mindset
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong Excel skills required
- Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models
- Entrepreneur, motivated and driven – mentality is one of creative “solution provider” and not “problem giver”
- Ability to see both the big picture and the details
- Personality types that thrive on new ideas and creative thinking, rather than just number crunching
Skills Required
- University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Management Systems, Economics, or Quantitative Finance
- Thorough knowledge of accounting and financial concepts and principles
- Minimum 8-10 years working experience, including 3-5 years managerial experience
- Solid experience in FMCG, retail, manufacturing, or Fragrance & Beauty / Fashion / Watches & Fine Jewelry industry
- Experience doing business in a multinational / APAC environment
- Strategic co-pilot / finance business partner mindset
- Strong business acumen and financial storytelling
- Planning and performance management expertise (budget, forecast, LE, MTP)
- Digital, finance systems, automation, and AI proficiency
- Governance and control mindset
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong Excel skills
- Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large datasets from multiple systems and building financial models
- Entrepreneurial, solution-oriented mindset and creative thinking
What We Do
CHANEL is a private company and a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, CHANEL offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewelry and Watches. CHANEL is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialized suppliers, collectively known as the Métiers d’Art. CHANEL is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship. It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, CHANEL promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D and innovation. At the end of 2019, CHANEL employed more than 28,000 people across the world.
