Finance Controller (China HQ/Consolidation)

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands - including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum - through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge, and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

The Finance Controller (China HQ/Consolidation) is responsible for delivering high-quality management reporting, financial analytics, and performance insights to support effective decision-making by Finance and business leadership.

The role acts as a bridge between planning outputs and business understanding, ensuring that forecasts, actuals, and outlooks are translated into clear, insightful, and actionable reporting. The controller owns reporting accuracy, consolidations, analytical narratives, and performance diagnostics across planning cycles, while driving standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement of analytics and reporting processes.

This position is offered on a1-year fixed-term contract. Upon completion of the contract period, there may be an opportunity for conversion to a permanent position, subject to business needs and satisfactory performance during the contract term.

Key Responsibilities

• Own forecasting, consolidate total China results and analytics process from FPCRA perspective, delivering accurate, timely, and insight driven outputs for the OU/Cluster
• Full P&L management, not managing any specific part of budget but supporting $1billion business.
• Provide analytical support across forecast, plan, and update cycles, ensuring consistency between assumptions, results, and outlook
• Support performance reviews (eg MPR) and OU/Cluster decision-making with high-quality insights and materials.
• Consolidate Net Sales results by category by brand and able to deep-dive into Price/Volume (SUOM) basis.
• Ensure data integrity and standardization of reporting and analytics across systems and markets
• Drive continuous improvement through simplification, automation, and enhanced use of analytics tools;
• Lead adoption of company-wide digital and AI tools for the FPCRA teams
• Coordinate analytical deliverables across the OU team and foster a strong insight-driven culture
• Collaborate closely with OU/Cluster/Category and global teams
• Lead and develop a highly capable team
• Close collaboration with China Local FP&A team and FPCRA OU team in HBS.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in financial planning, budgeting, financial controlling and analysis preferably gathered in a corporate environment in a multinational company and/or FMCG
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
• Coordination, planning and organization skills - demonstrated ability to prioritize workload in order to meet critical deadlines
• Experience in driving business value with market specific insight of financial data
• Proficient financial knowledge of analysis, evaluation, modelling and forecasting with strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong understanding of corporate financial management with concentration in financial planning and analysis
• Strong interpersonal skills - can work alongside and gain the trust and respect of stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Strong Leadership and People management skills to guide, organize, motivate, and develop the team

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected - all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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Note to candidates

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