Job Description

This role is critical to ensure PC GA financial performance management. As the current incumbent transitions to another role, backfilling is essential to protect the business delivery.

Job Title: PC Greater Asia Performance Management & PC Thailand Finance Lead

Location: Vietnam
Reporting to: Personal Care Greater Asia Finance Lead & Head Of Finance Vietnam

Business Context & Main Purpose of the Role

This role combines Regional Performance Management for Greater Asia Personal Care with finance leadership for Thailand Personal Care, bringing together enterprise-wide financial governance and in-market business partnering. It is accountable for driving performance transparency, standardization, insight generation, and decision support across Greater Asia PC, while serving as a strategic finance partner to the Thailand PC leadership team to deliver P&L performance, integrated business planning, and disciplined execution. The role is critical in translating regional strategy into rigorous financial management and operational framework to enable sustainable, profitable growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Long-term and Annual Strategic Planning

• Lead the Greater Asia PC long-term FGM and annual FGM refresh, underpinned by robust financial assumptions, scenario modelling, and a clear roadmap to deliver BU’s ambition.
• Co-lead business group-facing FGM alignment to ensure strategic coherence and financial credibility.
• Partner with the BULT to shape Greater Asia PC OKRs, monitor delivery, and recommend corrective actions where required.
• Lead the annual IOP process to build the full-year P&L plan in close coordination local BUFs.
• Own the construct and cascade of the market target framework

2. Regional Performance Governance

• Lead the S&OP review process for Greater Asia PC, ensuring comprehensive visibility of financial and non-financial performance against target and framework, and facilitating gap-bridging discussions.
• Provide in-month performance analysis versus forecat across topline and bottom-line, highlighting YTG implications and required interventions.
• Bring an objective, data-led perspective to performance discussions, constructively challenging the business to unlock step-change improvement.
• Lead BG-facing monthly forecast and cash forecast submissions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and proper supporting materials

• Own innovation performance tracking for total GA PC, providing targeted diagnosis and actionable insight at project level.
• Own delivery of Greater Asia PC-specific overhead budgets, ensuring disciplined cost management and clear accountability.
• Facilitate topic-based, data-driven discussions to strengthen operational plans, including areas such as TTS analysis, BMI deep dives, and mix maximization.

3. Capability Building & Process Excellence

• Own the Greater Asia performance dashboard agenda, driving adoption of systems, tools, and governance frameworks to improve consistency and decision quality across markets.
• Build finance and cross-functional capability in performance management through best-practice sharing, coaching, and structured capability development.
• Drive continuous improvement in dashboards, tools, and core financial processes to enhance efficiency, insight, and control.

4. Personal Care Thailand BU Finance Lead:

• Partner with Thailand PC leadership to co-create strategic and annual business plans that balance growth ambition with financial discipline.

• Provide strategic financial input into category strategy, pricing, mix, and investment choices.
• Shape and challenge business decisions to deliver sustainable, profitable growth.
• Drive delivery of revenue, profitability, and market share ambitions through rigorous performance management.
• Shape up strong gross margin improvement plan with robust action plan to bring GM above 50%
• Develop and coach local finance talent, maintain a robust succession pipeline for PC Finance in TH

Key Stakeholders

• Business Unit Leadership Team, Business Group Finance, and Performance Management stakeholders
• Market leadership teams and Greater Asia Personal Care finance teams
• Greater Asia Finance Excellence and Centre of Excellence teams
• Thailand Finance teams, including BUF, CDF, SCF, and FET

Critical Experience & Qualifications

• Strong experience in finance business partnering and performance management within a complex commercial environment
• Proven track record of managing cross-market and cross-category P&L and translating insights into business results
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a regional, multi-market environment
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across multiple organizational levels

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