Title:  Manager Finance Business Partnering

Job Summary

Be a trusted business partner to Finance team. Drive business performance  by generating high quality and insightful plan and forecasts, analyzing the performance against those plans and proactively working in collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve performance. 

Main responsibilities focus on the following key 3 areas:

1. Budgeting & Forecasting
2. Performance management
3. Ad-hoc projects/ Improvement initiatives

General Responsibilities

1. Budgeting & Forecasting and Modelling

• Co-pilot with management and Line-Of-Business (LOB) leaders in developing insightful annual budget and forecast/latest estimate with data analytics and commercial insights.
• Build financial models/tools to support robust planning and forecasting process as well as variance analysis.
  
  

2. Performance management

• Support month-end closing activities.
•  Drive quality financial management reports with accuracy and visibility.
• Monitor and drive company actual performance vs. LY, Budget, Forecast, KPIs through various analysis, identify key variances and underlying reasons/root cause and provide recommendations.

3. Ad-hoc projects / Improvement initiatives

• Identify process improvement opportunities constantly to increase efficiency.
• Support and assist in driving more automation & digital workplace.
• Any ad-hoc project as required.

Functional Skills and Knowledge

• Strong knowledge in planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance management
• Good understanding of accounting principles and financial concepts and accounting technical information
• Ability to manage complex planning and reporting process with multiple teams  stakeholders
• Digital savvy and keep on driving automation
• Strong proficiencies in Excel and Power Point
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written
• Knowledge of SAP / Lighthouse is preferred

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in FP&A area in MNCs or fast-pace environment
• Have experience with Big 4 (prefered)