Nora Tahir

Overseeing the administrative function of the office, sales logistics including production planning and of course, working capital management. Implemented Sarbanes Oxley as part of the Group initiative which was chronic considering the size of local operations but the programme has its own merits.During my tenure, it was the start of new media business as additional sales channel on top of physical CD sales - ringtones, RBT, digital download.

I started as the business controller and the last position held was Finance Director of the local subsidiary.At L'Oreal, my focus was primarily on working capital management, budgeting and forecasting, hedging and sales logistics. I was involved with the integration of new brands such as Redken and Shu Uemura. We also changed our business model from working with dealers to going direct, filtering out all the irrelevant layers and with that move, we discovered the clarity of the consumer market. A lot of work was done on improving the reliability of forecasting activity so that it is coherent to the direction of business, efficient handling of old stocks, warehousing operations.