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Assistant Finance Manager, Business Partner (Bi-lingual Chinese)

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Base pay range

$78,000.00/yr - $100,000.00/yr

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 300 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 500 employees (Americas Zone Region). We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

Position Summary

In addition to overseeing the core operations of Zone Finance, this function serves as the company's analytical engine, delivering insights and strategic support to drive informed decision-making and achieve business objectives.

Essential Functions

Financial Reporting, Analysis and Planning

• Responsible for the accurate and timely management reporting to both the local team and headquarter.
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses, and capital expenditures.
• Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance.
• Assist in managing the continued development of Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Operating Plan and Modeling tools.
• Monthly Financial reports
• Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies and understand ROI in marketing programs as well as new projects
• Analyze complex financial information and reports (routine or Ad hoc) to provide accurate, actionable, and timely financial recommendations to management and function heads for decision making purposes.

A&P Spending and Claim Process Control

• Maintain and continuous enhancement of Advertisement & Promotion spending and claim control system and processes of U.S.; to ensure spending application is duly approved, claim submit on time, accrual made in compliance to LKK corporate policies and accounting policies. Prepare spending, claim rate report, and conduct necessary periodical meeting with Sales & marketing team to ensure all spending is tracked and closed on time.

Balance Sheet Management

• Assist in managing balance sheet of the US companies to ensure healthy debts collection/ aging, Inventory holding, stock write off control and NRV provision, Payables, assets and equity.

Budget & Forecasting

• Support and drive pro-actively where appropriate US annual budgetary and forecasting processes including long term strategic plan, prepare analysis and reporting templates superior for presentation and submission on timely basis
• Coordinate budgetary planning with US Finance team, to facilitate consolidation into US efficiently within time limit and guidelines.

Business Partnering Support

• Design and implement customized P&L structures for key areas, including customer-specific or product-specific views to enhance decision-making.
• Support new product launches and business cases with financial insights.
• Monitor A&P spending efficiency and providing financial insights to optimize investments.
• Support & provide input for business decision making for business growth of US trading companies in financial and non-financial aspect within his capability, including analysis with relevant insight for identifying relevant Market weakness and opportunity for sales growth, productivity and profitability improvement.
• Participate and/or lead relevant initiatives or projects cross functionally when required including profitability improvement, business processes improvement, Digital Transformation projects implementation, etc.
• Assist in U.S. processes harmonization initiatives including A&P control, AR control, analysis and reporting practices, Internal control and others as assigned.

People, Organization and Team Development

• Provide support to subordinates and resolution of issues
• Manage and organize his team toward efficient and sustainable set-up and structure, motivated and harmony environment; promote continuous self-enhancement and provide coaching/ guidance and opportunity for personal development.

Compliance & Internal Control

• Ensure comply with corporate policies and procedures in relation to Accounts & Finance and applicable approved Accounting Standard Board/ Companies Act in U.S. & Canada. Keep abreast of, and inform the local team and headquarter of any changes in accounting, taxation and secretarial practices in the region
• Jointly Assist in promulgating and upholding of internal controls; work with other team members from other functions, plan & control Finance policies and procedures to achieve company objectives.

Required Education and Experience

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• At least 4 years' working experience from FMCG

Requirements & Skills:

• Demonstrate leadership skill and ability to work with minimum supervision
• Highest standards of Integrity in work, highly organized and meticulous with data to bring out the insights for business
• Ability to think Out-of-the-box, strive toward operation excellence
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Fluent in listening and speaking Mandarin or Cantonese.
• Integrity.
• Strong compliance with deadlines.
• Able to communicate with all levels of management.

COMPETENCIES

• Problem Solving
• Drive for Results
• Managing & Measuring Work
• Building Effective Teams
• Motivating Others

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Excellent in command of written and spoken English. Bi-lingual in Chinese.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSE, REGISTRATIONS

None

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel, taste foods; and reach with hands and arms.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. For out-of-area candidates, remote work could be arranged.

It is Lee Kum Kee's policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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