Lenovo

Job Description:

Coordinate Budget:

1. Work as Corporate Function CFO and business partnering with top executives and worldwide teams
2. Benchmark Lenovo budget with industry & best practice
3. Planning & budgeting modelling to drive recourse efficiency and optimize resource allocation
4. Harmonize Top Down and Bottoms-Up, complete budget according to the defined schedule and align with the corporate strategy and target
5. Support business deploy budget to sub-functions and build up the saving plan
6. Build up expense management model.  Identify and raise the proposals for cost saving, expense structure optimization, efficiency improvement

Monitor actual and Forecast

1. Monitoring rolling forecast according to the defined schedule
2. Variance analysis such as Actual vs. Budget, YoY, CtC, etc.
3. Major spending deep dive analysis
4. Propose, make and drive the implementation of action plans to drive for the budget, forecast or saving target with business
5. Forecast accuracy and continuously process improvement
6. Investment & other unplanned Case Management

Strategic Project Support

1.       Build up business cases with financial model

2.       Set up and make the ROI/productivity/benchmark and variance analysis to drive function spending's efficiency

3.       Manage the projects execution with cross-function teams

Operation Support

1. Support the ad-hoc executive requests
2. Prepare executive level presentation
3. Coordinate cross-team collaboration to gather data for reporting

Requirements:

Business Background:

1. Good experiences in dealing with services and hardware business
2. Or the ability to quickly grasp a thorough understanding of Lenovo business

Communication skills:

1.     Excellent command of the English Language, written and spoken

2.     Ability to influence colleagues

3.     Ability to close issues in a non-confrontational manner

Project management skills:

1.       Ability to multi-task

2.       Ability to clearly identify, communicate, and track the responsibilities, and deliverables required of the various budget teams

3.       Ability to manage colleagues to a time schedule

Issues Resolution:

1.     Ability to close issues with minimal management attention

2.     When management intervention is required, be sure that all of the facts of the issue are well understand and agreed to by all parties

3.     Ability to highlight issues to be resolved in a simple manner, and be able to prepare options/recommendation

Presentations:

1.     Be able to prepare executive level presentations (net and to the point) 

2.     Ability to net complex issues into their key components, with focus on the facts, and issue to be resolved.  Present the facts in such a manner that our executives can quickly assess the required information, and make decisions as necessary from the charts as presented

Flexibility:

1.     Ability to work long days as necessary and take worldwide calls with our colleagues during the evening hours

2.     Ability to handle pressure and embrace the constant changes