Finance Business Partner

• Provide senior level finance business partnering support for the NIQ Japan business. Finance business partnering key accountabilities:
  • Driving performance
    • Lead financial performance management & reporting ensuring clear accurate timely reporting (forecasts actuals OP 3YP)
    • Provide factbased actionable insights to drive value creation across the entire business
    • Drive a transparent clear narrative on performance drivers execution requirements risks and ops etc.
    • Lead continuous improvement in reporting forecasting and planning to drive simplification and standardization
    • Partner closely with regional FP&A to drive clarity simplicity & speed in all financial reporting and planning
    • Leading the development of the periodic forecasts collaborating with various departments to gather input and ensure alignment with strategic goals
    • Building and maintaining financial models to analyze different scenarios assess business performance and make informed decisions
    • Conducting indepth analysis of financial and operational performance identifying trends key performance indicators (KPI) and areas for improvement

• • Strategy development & execution
    • Partner with commercial leaders to develop a worldclass commercial strategy & supporting 3year plan (3YP)
    • Drive execution of the strategy develop manage performance communicate & cascade and proactively coursecorrect
    • Partner with key stakeholders to embed commercial strategic direction into key processes and ways of working
    • Providing financial insights and analysis to support strategic decision making such as investments cost optimization and resource allocation
  • Controls & Governance
    • Actively partner with other finance teams to create & maintain an environment of strong internal controls good governance and efficient financial processes

• Leadership and team management key accountabilities:
  • Talent development
    • Recruit and retain a team of engaged capable finance professionals
    • Ensure clarity in whats expected role definition performance development
    • Drive a growth mindset and performance culture among the team
    • Focus on personal and professional development throughout the downline
  • Leadership
    • Rolemodel critical leadership behaviors in particular collaboration active listening managerial courage standing alone powerful influencing
    • Leverage the matrixed organization to drive alignment and clarity
    • Actively enroll and manage all internal and external stakeholders and make use of subjectmatter experts
    • Develop financial acumen in others

Qualifications :

• Bachelor/Master degree in Accounting Finance or related field 
• Qualified finance professional with 7 years of finance leadership experience
• Highly experienced team leader comfortable with managing a remote team across China
• Experienced in managing critical senior level stakeholders across various functions
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex problem solving and structure white space to bring clarity and transparency
• Able to handle diverse agenda that spans outside of core finance in order to be able to provide a total business perspective

Additional Information :

Desired Characteristics:

• Able to thrive in a deadline driven fastpaced environment
• Ability to manage team well
• Experience working in a multinational corporation and a matrixed organization
• Outstanding analytical abilities strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels in the organization
• Excellent team player and ability to take ownership of tasks/projects
• Highly skilled at problem solving
• Experienced in using data insights to help drive decisionmaking and influencing stakeholders
• Expert in MS Office Tools MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of CRM systems such as Salesforce/MS Dynamics
• Comfortable in using BI tools and large datasets for financial modeling
• Professional written/verbal English communication skills

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023 NIQ combined with GfK bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through stateoftheart platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90% of the worlds population.

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