Finance Manager - Consumer Business Group Japan

About the role

3M is hiring a Finance Manager for its Consumer Business Group Japan, based in Taipei. The role acts as a trusted business partner to business leaders, providing financial insights, challenging assumptions and supporting initiatives that drive performance, optimise resource allocation and meet financial objectives aligned with the group's strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders and Sales and Marketing teams to give high-quality financial input into commercial plans
• Run weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual sales forecasting, improving models and assumptions
• Drive revenue growth management: customer trading terms (CIP, MDF, chargebacks), pricing strategy and portfolio mix, and analyse distribution and assortment decisions
• Deliver monthly management reports, forecasts and variance analyses, and maintain KPI dashboards
• Support annual budgeting, reforecasting and expense tracking
• Analyse business cases, pricing and investment proposals with ROI, scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Identify financial risks and opportunities and support corrective action plans
• Improve financial processes, data accuracy and financial literacy, and ensure compliance with internal controls and regulations

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
• 10+ years of finance experience, ideally in CPG/FMCG or a commercial environment
• Japanese and English working languages
• Proven ability to support Sales/Marketing teams and influence cross-functional decisions

Required skills

• Forecasting, budgeting, expense tracking and variance analysis
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling
• Experience with financial systems such as SAP and Power BI is a plus