Senior Manager, Finance

Location: KL Sentral - Redstation

• Budgeting and 5-Year Projections

• Responsible to prepare annual budget and 5-Year Projections in a robust manner with details key drivers.
• Align the budget numbers according to Tribe/LOB’s strategic priorities and business plan.
• Perform sanity check on existing or potential market trends with the budget numbers
• Build dynamic financial modelling to analyze and evaluate revenue potential for new business and product.
• Ensure budget and business projections are appropriately articulated to management and investors.

• Forecasting

• Liaise with Tribe/LOB Leads on Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Forecast
• Consolidate the Forecast submitted by Tribe/LOB Leads
• Perform sanity and reasonableness checking on numbers to ensure alignment to Company’s goal as a whole
• Build dynamic financial modelling to analyze and evaluate revenue potential for new business and product.
• Ensure the Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Forecast are appropriately articulated to management and investors.

• Financial Reporting & Analysis

Responsible to prepare periodic reports, comparing actual to budget, quarterly forecast and prior year, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance in a robust manner.

Independently drive solutions and demand actions from others to address any unexpected variances or gaps.

• Management Information System (MIS)

• Accountable to ensure data is available for extraction and turning the data available into readable and presentable Dashboard.
• Championing and drive report automation through tools or Robotics Process Automation (RPA) and curb the increase in headcounts despite increased volume.
• Collaborate closely with the regional team and other departments to ensure data required is readily accessible.

• Business Partnering

Assist the Tribe/LOB leads in performing financial simulations/modelling for new business initiatives

Perform sensitivity and what-if analysis for decision making

• Process improvement and ad-hoc assignments

Lead or assist in the implementation of advances in technology and software to improve financial planning, reporting, analysis and controls, including creating financial models using electronic spreadsheets/platform to deal with any adhoc financial analysis requests or management information requests.

Working closely with Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to initiate and drive continuous process improvement and best practices in all aspect of work.

To assist on ad-hoc assignments as assigned by management from time to time

Qualification

• Degree in Accountancy / Finance / Math. Professional Accounting Qualification is a plus.
• Possesses minimum 8 years of experience in accounting firm or financial services industry. Experience in finance of a loyalty program industry is a plus.
• Agile and ability to thrive in a demanding, change oriented, fast-paced environment requiring a high degree of deadline driven productivity and manage well through ambiguity and complexity
• Numbers-savvy, proactive and possessing a positive attitude.
• Must be meticulous and an eye for detail in all aspect of work.
• Must be a team player and able to work independently.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for tasks and people.
• Innovative and retain fresh thinking with a passion for solving problems and an ability to inspire others
• High level of creativity and experience doing independent research.
• Strong project management skills to execute special projects and strategic initiatives
• Work with speed and manage time effectively and meet tight deadlines.
• Must have good command of English.
• Possess strong computer skills in Excel/Google Sheet and PowerPoint/Google Slides. Experience in Google Data Studio is a plus.
• Good communication skills at all levels within an organisation and can demonstrate excellent report writing skills.