Givaudan

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Analyze financial and operational performance of company’s North America Fragrance and Beauty sector
• Provide financial analysis for business unit-related investments and advise regional management on decisions related to investments, expenses, account assignments, headcount, and resource allocation
• Conduct financial analysis and investigate variances, report discrepancies, and highlight issues
• Ensure alignment with financial and operational goals
• Prepare sales and operating expense forecasts for assigned business units and accounts
• Prepare monthly reporting package containing Sales, Margin, Opex analysis, headcount, and overall business performance
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic account planning
• Collaborate with regional and global teams to meet performance objectives, supports strategic initiatives, and partners with the Pricing Department on negotiations to evaluate financial impacts and develop strategic approaches
• Drive business intelligence metrics, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring robust performance reporting for both Consumer Products and Fine Fragrance divisions
• Ensure data integrity and consistency with systems requirements
• Contribute to capital expenditure projects, support the development of regional commercial strategies, and contribute to the execution of the region’s 5-year business plan and annual operating budgets
• Drive the sales, capital expenditure, and expense budget process across the entire region
• Communicate monthly reporting packages, including sales, margin, operating expenses (Opex) analysis, headcount, and overall business performance, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate guidelines

Financial Analyst, Fragrance and Beauty

Software Engineer

• Provide controlling and reporting services within the Reporting Center to the Finance and Controlling organization globally
• Ensure service execution is in accordance to agreed service levels and within laws and regulations
• Reporting dashboard development and subsequent reporting maintenance
• Partner with the functional area to build a new suite of dashboards to enable a data-driven approach to business partnering
• Develop an enhanced set of KPIs to support the execution of our Strategy
• Prepare systems, load data, check data quality and accuracy
• Ensure necessary master data is maintained and updated for upcoming reporting cycle
• Populate reports and analyses within the agreed SLA
• Perform data adjustments within the reporting application
• Ensure data quality and completeness before sending to the respective Controlling organization
• Escalate major data deviations to management and suggest a solution
• Provide business support on the agreed level
• Perform ad-hoc reporting upon request
• Maintain and develop dashboards to meet customer needs using business intelligence tools
• Prepare data sets and work with systems and databases
• Streamline and automate dashboard refreshes
• Be involved in gathering and translating customer requirements using Design Thinking and Agile approaches
• Document and maintain report requirements in specific documents

Business Reporting Developer Intern

Manager

• Define business strategy for Japan , the main goals and the actions needed to deliver them
• Identify needs and business development growth opportunities for the T&W Japan business in collaboration and alignment with the Commercial Head, R&D and Marketing
• Develop & maintain knowledge of competitor activity , regulatory environment and changing consumer trends for Givaudan’s total solution portfolio, communicates and recommends initiatives to differentiate ourselves from competition
• Work with key stakeholders from other commercial and technical teams in a matrix style to support key accounts
• Identify the gaps and opportunities for customers and consumers in the region and feedback to Commercial Head, R&D, and Marketing.

Business Planning Manager

• Manage and monitor the performance of large teams of Data Administrators and Data Analysts on regional scale
• Hire team members and Team Leaders
• Provide professional support for the team: coach team members, set goals, evaluate skill development, develop individual action plans and train team as needed, being involved in talent management and succession planning
• Take relevant actions (termination, performance improvement plan) in case of escalated performance issues
• Responsible for salary review and promotions
• Create strong morale and spirit in the team
• Support the set-up and supervise the EDM Data/Information Management team
• Build constructive and effective relationships with EDM Teams and site teams
• Ensure that direct reports are contributing to data quality and timely execution of Master Data/Information Management activities
• Provide input for process improvement opportunities and drive implementation

EDM Manager

Accounts Payable

• Handling incoming invoices digital format
• Sorting invoices by countries
• Scanning sorted invoices our internal system
• Handling urgent scanning request
• Root cause analysis of recurring errors
• Handling incoming queries
• Any other ad hoc tasks
• Co-operate with X-functional teams

Accounts Payable Internship – French Entities

Accountant

• As the Accounts Receivable Junior Accountant, you will actively engage in and oversee month end activities, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial processes.
• Process receipts payment made by customer via bank transfer
• Ensure all bank transactions are timely and accurately processed in the system
• Perform settlement of bank clearing accounts for the collection and bank transactions, monitor bank accounts in SAP tallied with bank statement
• Process adjustments, write offs, bank charges, rebates and commissions
• Process non trade related debit and credit notes
• Actively participate in month end activities like aging report, bad debt provision and account reconciliations
• Follow established procedures for processing receipts and cash
• Identify, recommend and implement solutions in consultation with Team Lead and Manager for continuous improvement opportunities
• Maintain thorough documentation of processes and ensuring them up-to-date
• Ensure customer queries are attended to and resolved in a timely manner

Accounts Receivable Accountant

• Process and park RawMat, IM&S, freight, contract & non-PO vendor invoices
• Follow-up on parked items, resolve payment issues
• Perform GL reconciliations
• Maintain vendor accounts
• Perform invoice/credit memo corrections
• Monitor and resolve open items and decrease debit balance
• Answer external (supplier) and internal (local business) queries
• Participate in internal- and external query resolution calls
• Follow- and apply all relevant internal audit & business compliance guidelines, controls and policies
• Analyze root causes of re-occurring errors
• Running standard and ad-hoc reports
• Identify areas of process improvement and deliver measurable results
• Make AP Team Lead / AP Manager aware of issues/problems/deviations as necessary
• Perform any other tasks defined by the line manager or above

Accounts Payable Accountant – Fixed Term

• Process and park RawMat, IM&S, freight, contract & non-PO vendor invoices
• Follow and apply all relevant internal audit & business compliance guidelines, controls and policies
• Perform any other tasks defined by the line manager or above

Accounts Payable Intern

Director

• Serve as a global expert on cosmetic product safety, ensuring compliance and market access across Europe, USA, China, and Latin America.
• Demonstrate broad business thinking combined with excellence in safety assessment of cosmetic ingredients.
• Lead product safety reviews and risk assessments for new and existing ingredients and finished products during concept and adoption stages, ensuring compliance with international safety and legal requirements.
• Communicate risks and recommendations effectively in cross-functional settings, influencing key decisions across R&D, Regulatory, S&T, Product Development, and Marketing.
• Monitor global safety and regulatory trends, translating emerging requirements into company policies and proactive strategies.
• Manage the Active Beauty ingredient safety testing program, including claim substantiation, lab/vendor oversight, KPI monitoring, and consultant management (cost, quality, turnaround time).
• Support investigation of in-market issues through root cause analysis and implementation of corrective/preventive actions.
• Represent Givaudan externally in trade associations, contributing to industry discussions and sharing safety/regulatory intelligence internally.
• Partner with the Regulatory team to evaluate business impacts and support portfolio evolution globally.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to obtain toxicology or regulatory data, supporting registration and commercialization.

Scientific Director

Business Analyst

• Prepare the monthly business reporting package including sales, margins, headcount, and financial performance.
• Analyse P&L variances, identify underlaying business drivers, and develop clear management commentary.
• Compile and maintain data models and reports to track performance against targets.
• Contribute to the development of forecasting tools and dashboards to support decision-making.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses to support divisional leadership in clarifying the division's financial and non-financial performance.
• Support continous improvement initiatives in management reporting processes and controlling systems
• Support develop and maintain KPIs and business metrics at the divisional and regional levels.
• Collaborate with regional Finance teams to ensure data consistency, transparency and accuracy.
• Identify deviations, trends, and risks and contribute to proposals for corrective actions.
• Contribute to the advancement of digital reporting tools and automation plans within the FP&A team
• Work closely with Finance teams (Corporate, Divisional, Regional, GBS) and business partners to ensure aligned and reliable reporting.
• Maintain effective communication on deliverables, clarifications, and process updates.
• Support management presentations and internal reviews with and clear analysis.

Senior Business Analyst

Research Scientist

• Design and conduct research projects in order to develop improved or new products and solutions, according to company's business objectives and corporate strategy.
• Develop in-depth subject matter excellence and utilise to implement scientific and technological advancements.
• Translate consumer benefits or customer requirements typically arriving to Givaudan via new business opportunities into a set of technical requirements.
• Independently plan, organise, execute technical projects, and deliver results.
• Lead projects, track and regularly update the projects in Project Management system, write regular reports and initiate stage gate reviews.
• Apply creative and innovative thinking skills to solve problems and progress toward project deliverables.
• Perform exploratory research to lead to new projects and day-to-day management of equipment.
• Effectively contribute to development of research methods and new science/technical capabilities.
• Follow the scientific advancement in own field and identify impact on current projects.
• Identify potential outside collaborations and interact with suppliers.
• Work with Patents team to ensure appropriate protection of all Intellectual Property and be alert to all opportunities to develop IP and protect inventions.
• Present and provide updates of your work to Givaudan's clients.

Senior Research Scientist

Collections

• Achieve Credit & Collection KPI goals
• Research and evaluate clients' credit rating
• Proactively contact Clients and Sales
• Escalate & follow up the necessary actions
• Making decisions about customer order release
• Investigating and resolving queries both internally and externally around disputed invoices
• Manage the timely and effective collection of all debts

French-Speaking Credit & Collections Analyst

Human Resources

• Handle queries/requests received via the ticketing system (ServiceNow) for your supported country and for certain processes globally
• Manage administrative tasks in SAP Success Factors related to the employee lifecycle (onboarding, changes in employment/compensation, offboarding) based on requests from HR and line managers
• Prepare employment certificates and documentation related to the employee lifecycle using the Document Generation/PeopleDoc tool
• Provide system related first level support to the business and HR across the organisation in relation to global annual cycles such as Talent and Performance Management and the Annual Salary Review
• Handle personal data changes initiated by employees via self-service in line with country specific guidelines
• Maintain a strong relationship with local HR in the countries we support, assist them with HR Services processes, challenge requests that are not aligned with agreed procedures
• Involvement in projects focusing on optimizing our processes, depending on affinity/interest
• Seek rapid and efficient resolution of requests, attempting to resolve the majority of requests at the first level following standard operating procedures and other knowledge materials
• Identify the appropriate second-line support team in case of requests that are not in the scope of the HR Services team and promptly route the case to them
• Maintain customer contact until the request is resolved, demonstrating excellent customer service throughout

HR Advisor

• Apply cutting-edge technologies to identify, optimize, and scale up synthetic methods and processes having applicability on large-scale in mind
• Focus on sustainability and applying green chemistry principles
• Use advanced digital tools and predictive modelling to accelerate route scouting, improve reaction parameters, and drive data-based decision-making
• Lead a team of research associates
• Collaborate and manage projects with external partners
• Provide expert chemistry advice and communicate acquired knowledge to technical staff and business leadership
• Benefit from working in an interdisciplinary environment: biotechnology and analytic laboratories
• Communicate your results in internal reports, presentations, and publications
• Keep up-to-date with the scientific literature and transform ideas into new processes

Research Scientist, Organic Chemistry

• Provide day-to-day service support as part of the GBS HR Solutions optimization team – focusing on Advisor support by administration.
• Reporting to the HR Services Manager and based in Petaling Jaya office.
• Work together with HR advisors to support the administrative activities related to onboarding and employee administration.
• Send out reminders and follow up on pending activities.
• Workflow monitoring and reminders (weekly 50 emails at least).
• Manual data entries into the HR system.
• Easy cases handling.
• Generate report and bi-monthly insurance registration.