Founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people's lives with our high quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all - a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment.
As a company driven by purpose and strong corporate values we pride ourselves to be listed among the World's Most Ethical Companies since 19 consecutive years. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do - acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation and treating each other with trust and respect.
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The Senior Finance Analyst will be a vital member of our team, playing a key role in analysing data and guiding decision-making for our sales and marketing teams. In this role you'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with the Global Hotel, Ecommerce, and EMEA Distributor sales teams, offering valuable financial insights to help them reach their targets as well as build robust forward forecasts and budgets.
In addition to partnering with the channel sales teams, you'll work hand-in-hand with marketing to ensure that spending is accurately tracked, forecasts are robust & align with business objectives.
This role will also be responsible for ad hoc analysis & one off projects including ROI on key investments (marketing and sales), scenario planning and developing/ refining financial models to support strategic initiatives and assist in decision making.
What you will do:
Strong business partnering - build strong relationships with commercial teams and foster an environment of supportive commercial challenge to ensure delivery against agreed targets. Analyse current and past trends in key performance indicators in order to highlight commercial opportunities and risks in particular to revenue, margin and profit.
Own the preparation of accurate and timely reporting of monthly and YTD financial performance for the B2B, Hotel & Ecommerce channels as well as Marketing including tracking & analysis of costs vs budget & forecast as well as analysis of variances and recommendations as appropriate.
Proactively, and on demand, prepare value added financial analysis and insights to optimize profitability of the Global Hotel, Global Ecommerce and EMEA Distributor channels (eg new markets financial feasibility, customer profitability analysis for eg across the Wholesale channel, ROI etc )
Support a 'one team' approach within EMEA finance, working closely with the shared service teams to identify areas of process improvement and ensure accurate reporting of results, maintaining adherence to accounting standards and compliance requirements.
What you will need:
Educated to a degree level or equivalent; ideally within a Finance related discipline. Advantage to have a recognized financial qualification such as CIMA or ACCA (or be working towards one).
Experience working in a Retail and/or FMCG environment (3+ years).
Experience of working in a matrix management environment (international/global exposure would be an advantage).
Experience of working across functions and various levels of seniority.
Experience with SAP and/or Power BI would be a strong advantage
Molton Brown is part of Kao founded in Japan in 1887, Kao is passionate about making a difference in people's lives with our high-quality products and services to create a Kirei Life for all - a beautiful life that respects the needs of our consumers and customers as well as the planet. Our corporate philosophy, the Kao Way, guides us in everything we do - acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation and treating each other with trust and respect.
How we work: Having been selected among the World's Most Ethical Companies for 19 consecutive years, we are a company with a purpose and strong corporate values. We never compromise on quality and craft our products with care for the consumer and the environment. At Kao, each employee can actively shape their job and their career. We work collaboratively to achieve our common goals, always aiming to deliver the best for our customers.
Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.
Want to learn more:If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit