Finance Team Leader

Job Purpose:
- Deploy, continuously monitor & update, report & analyze the financial performance / operational efficiency of the Chains to provide effective advice/recommendations that ensure optimization of Financial and Business indicators. Ensure achievement of business targets and allocated revenue goals.
- Take overall responsibility for establishing and controlling the budget within the assigned scope to ensure it is always optimized and most effective.
Responsibilties:
1. Build, control cost norms, limits, budgets and financial authorization
- Coordinate in building cost norms and limits to support Business Plan preparation
- Forecast and prepare budget within assigned scope. Monitor and control budget preparation and execution to ensure cash flow for operations
- Propose solutions to control financial risks, develop action plans and coordinate implementation of solutions to reduce financial risks
2. Business performance analysis reporting
- Organize implementation of management reports according to the planned portfolio
- Organize review of the implementation of action plans/recommendations stated in the reports (if any)
- Analyze significant variances between actual and budget
- Refer to market benchmarks, prepare periodic or ad-hoc financial risk assessment reports as required by Leadership at each time
- Proactively trigger internal forecasts to help the business achieve defined targets
- Prepare presentation materials for the Board of Directors on Finance, ensuring complete content and present if required
3. Evaluate business operation efficiency
- Participate in building/appraising the Company's salary and bonus policies
- Deploy specific revenue targets for each Business Unit to ensure achievement of revenue growth plans for each Region/Area
- Calculate KPI achievement rates as the basis for the HR Department to process KPI-based salary payments
- Calculate KPI achievement rates as the basis for year-end performance evaluation of Divisions/Departments within the assigned scope
4. Cost optimization control
- Organize control to ensure expenses are within the approved budget and appraise out-of-budget expenditures
- Monitor, follow up, coordinate and support related parties to ensure solutions are implemented
- Propose cost improvement and optimization solutions
5. Evaluate investment efficiency, new openings and key transactions
- Evaluate and propose solutions to improve investment efficiency of upcoming projects; financial efficiency of new store locations based on pricing framework and investment rates; and financial efficiency of planned business programs/plans
- Deploy projects to optimize the Company's operational efficiency and system projects
6. Others
- Provide professional appraisal opinions when requested by related departments
- Support projects carried out by the Finance Department