About GraduAction

GraduAction is a one-stop hub of career services and resources for graduating students and new graduates.

No matter what you embark on after graduation, we are here to support you to secure a personally rewarding career. GraduAction offers tailored career support services and resources to help you prepare and start your career. For details, please refer to the GraduAction website.

About Job Secret Decoder

You are cordially invited to join us for the coming session of Job Secret Decoder, a series of regular sharing sessions by young HKU alumni or industry experts to provide first-hand information and practical tips on how to start your career in a specific field.

Retail, FMCG, Luxury: My Career Journey from P&G to DFS

As a Finance Manager, you will work as a finance leader on a team with representatives from various other functions that are responsible for a brand, a category or a channel. Do you want to play a role in strategy setting, decision-making, and business planning? Do you know how to make investment choices based on financial analysis across all aspects of the business? Join the sharing session with Peggy Guo on 28 October 2022.


As part of the Job Secret Decoder series, we have invited Peggy Guo from our full-time Class of 2018 to share about her career journey starting from a Finance Manager at Procter & Gamble to a Global Pricing and Promotion Manager at DFS now. This is an interactive Zoom session, you are welcome to ask questions after listening to Peggy's sharing. No matter what your background is, join us to hear from Peggy:

• My career journey after graduation: Why I switched from finance to corporate side?
• Retail in Hong Kong: What are the jobs that retail industry has? What is the career progression?
• Intro to DFS working culture/working nature etc.
• How to equip yourself for interviews?

Date: 28 October 2022 (Friday)
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Format: via Zoom
Language: English

Target: HKU new graduates and current students are welcome to join.

Speaker:

Peggy Guo (BEcon&Fin 2018)

After graduation from HKU in 2018, she joined Procter & Gamble as Finance Manager and primarily led First Aid Beauty (FAB)’s global first department store counter launch in Hong Kong. Promoted as Senior Finance Manager in 2021, she launched the first ever Ecom store of SK-II in Hong Kong and Taiwan markets. Currently, Peggy is a Global Pricing and Promotion Manager at DFS.