Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner for Merchandising Department

The role is primarily responsible in providing strong Finance business support to Merchandising department through value adding financial reporting and insights.

The role will also support Merchandising in addressing both operational and finance concerns and at the same time identify areas for improvement, recommend process simplification and automation to come up with a more efficient and effective Merchandising process that can better help the organization attain its goals and objectives.

Provide Merchandising Reports

1. Prepares margin analysis per subclass on a weekly basis to closely monitor the actual impact of the margins results per week
2. Closely monitor the merchandise on hand per subclass on a monthly manner and work with Merchandising on the ageing inventories
3. Prepares comparative actuals vs forecasted margins to ensure alignment with the overall BU targets
4. Prepares GM Bridge Analysis to identify the specific drivers of the margin results per subclass per month both for concess and outright items
5. Prepares an exception report for all ageing item with corresponding new POs per SKU

Finance Business Partnering

1. Provide valuable insights to further improve the business performance per category
2. Participate in the business reviews discussion with the vendors and provide valuable insights on new strategies for business growth
3. Recommend and lead process improvement initiatives and projects