About the role
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Annual Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning (40%)
• Lead the annual budget, forecast and long-range planning processes, including timelines, coordination, consolidation, analysis and management summaries.
• Work closely with the DAP General Manager, APAC leadership and business stakeholders to build financial plans that support market priorities and regional growth objectives.
• Review business submissions and help identify key risks, opportunities and actions needed to deliver financial commitments.
• Build positive working relationships across commercial, operations and functional teams to improve communication, alignment and accountability.
• Prepare clear management reports and commentary that explain key business drivers and support leadership discussions.
• Provide financial guidance and practical recommendations to support investment decisions, resource allocation and profitable growth.
• Partner with business owners on follow-up actions when plans or results require adjustment.
2. Financial Analysis (25%)
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages, including P&L, balance sheet and inventory analysis, with clear commentary on results versus plan and forecast.
• Analyze material variances with finance and business teams, and summarize key drivers, implications and potential improvement actions.
• Support business development and investment reviews with financial evaluation, scenario analysis and recommendations.
• Support cash, balance sheet and inventory reporting and forecasting, working with business units and Integrated Planning teams where needed.
• Contribute to Board materials and ad hoc leadership requests, with a focus on accuracy, clarity and opportunities to improve reporting efficiency.
3. Business Partnership, Investment Analysis & Decision Support (25%)
• Serve as a finance partner to the DAP General Manager, commercial leaders and APAC functional teams, providing financial insight for business priorities, investment choices and resource allocation.
• Prepare business cases, ROI analysis and scenario modeling for key initiatives such as distributor market investments, wholesale growth, channel development and brand opportunities.
• Turn financial analysis into simple, practical recommendations that clearly explain options, trade-offs, risks and expected financial impact.
• Track investment performance against approved plans and work with business owners to identify follow-up actions when results differ from expectations.
4. Management, Reporting Governance & Ad Hoc Support (10%)
• Coordinate routine communication between local FP&A, APAC FP&A, Corporate FP&A and GAS teams to support smooth reporting and planning processes.
• Help ensure reporting requirements, timelines and ownership are clearly communicated to the appropriate teams.
• Support timely and accurate submission of key financial information.
• Act as a point of contact for selected ad hoc reporting or process improvement requests involving HQ, APAC FP&A and local teams.
• Identify opportunities to use tools and templates to simplify, automate and standardize recurring reporting and analysis.
• Support process and reporting improvements that make analysis more consistent, insightful and easier to use.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and support to team members as needed.
Qualifications
Education Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field required. MBA preferred.
Experience Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, business finance, reporting or financial analysis. Experience with budgeting, forecasting, planning or business performance analysis required. Retail, consumer goods, footwear, apparel or distributor market experience is a plus.
Skills Strong Excel and financial analysis skills. Comfortable using reporting systems such as Hyperion or similar tools. Good communication and business partnering skills. Fluent English required.
