Finance Director – Asia Pacific Region
Senior Commercial Finance Director and Business Partner, accountable for the strategic and operational financial management and control of Clarks’ Europe and then Asia Pacific Regions. Responsible for ensuring that the Regions delivered their short and longer-term sales, margin, overhead and profit targets, ROCE, cashflow and other key performance indicators. Direct reporting line to Clarks Group CFO, 6 direct reports within regional finance teams of 25.• Delivered on or ahead of all key financial targets for each year in role.• Rated by Regional President as best finance business partner in their working career.• Embedded robust financial forecasting and review processes across all key markets, ensuring timely visibility of KPIs, rapid risk mitigation and opportunity optimization. Improved cash flow forecasting, inventory planning and delivered OPEX and CAPEX savings vs Budget each year in role.• Led APAC Region Strategic Planning process, to stabilize then deliver the required growth to double profits to £100m in 5 years. Secured Board approval to prioritise investment funds to Asia over other Regions to support growth plan. • Executed market “Deep Dives” and built action plans for those markets to best respond to operational and strategic challenges to deliver against short and longer-term financial targets. • Developed business cases to open new retail stores, build digital marketplaces and reviewed buying out distributor markets in Spain and France.
