Job Description
Job purpose
This position is responsible for:
Liaise with the Line of Business (LOB)/Country Leads on the Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Forecast and perform sanity and reasonableness checks on numbers to ensure alignment with the Company’s overall goal.
Prepare the annual budget segmented by line of business and spanets/countries.
Preparing 5 years projections segmented by Line of Business and Markets/Countries.
Analyzing actual variances compared to budget, forecast and prior year/period.
Ensure the required data are well maintained and readily available.
Duties and responsibilities
1. Budgeting and 5-Year Projections
Responsible to prepare the annual budget and 5-Year Projections robustly with details key drivers.
Align the budget numbers according to LOBs/Countries’ strategic priorities and business plan.
Perform sanity check on existing or potential spanet 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.
2. Forecasting
Liaise with LOB/Country Leads on Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Forecast.
Consolidate the Forecast submitted by LOB/Country Leads.
Perform sanity and reasonableness checking on numbers to ensure alignment to the 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.
3. Financial Reporting & Analysis
Responsible to prepare periodic reports, comparing actual to budget, quarterly forecast and prior year, highlighting trends and robustly analyzing causes of unexpected variance.
Independently drive solutions and demand actions from others to address any unexpected variances or gaps.
4. 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.
5. Business Partnering
6. 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.
Qualifications
Degree in Accountancy / Finance / Mathematic Professional Accounting Qualification is a plus.
Possesses minimum 5 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.
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