Job Description
Job Purpose:
As Senior Financial Analyst, reporting to FP&A COE supervisor, you will be working closely with the APJ Regional Director and Country Finance Director and responsible for providing FP&A support and business partnership. You will be experiencing in dynamic interaction and collaboration with key stakeholders located in different countries across the globe.
Responsibilities:
- Act as primary finance contact to work with business team and liaison with other functional teams [i.e. HR, IT, Logistic, Operations, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Accounting, Controllership, and Center of Excellence]
- Closely monitor and support the financial performance of APJ
- Provide finance guidance to business team regarding financial related matters, including cost management and business development opportunities
Financial Analysis and Reporting
- Provide complete, accurate and timely financial reporting and business insights to APJ Regional Management, Corporate FP&A, and Function leaders.
- Conduct ad-hoc and monthly financial analyses – Highlight and lowlights on cost and headcount tracking, cost efficiency analysis
- Prepare and support APJ regional consolidation and management reporting, including forecasting cycle and annual budgeting process
- Support the implementation and roll out of new financial reporting tool and system
- Lead and initiate enhancements to reporting and insight generation
Business Partnership
- Serve as finance business partner/trusted advisor and work with various stakeholders to facilitate new business engagement, new vendor/customer enrollment, business decision support, and financial planning/forecasting
- Develop financial model/template to support business opportunities to meet Direct Cost target.
- Review and understand contractual terms in agreement/statement of work (SOW) along with various stakeholders to articulate financial implications
- Coordinate with Controllership, Accounting, and Tax to ensure proper accounting and tax treatments for business transaction
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Familiar with SAP, BW, TM1, and PowerBI experience is a plus
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Good command in English (written and verbal)
- Minimum of 5 to 7 years in a MNC organisation
- IT distribution industry experience a plus
- University graduate with major in Accounting or Finance
- Experience in FP&A business partnering, curiosity in understanding the business and how FP&A can add value to the business
- Strong financial discipline, strategic thinking and mindsets
- Strong responsibility sense, positive working attitude, effective communication skills (outspoken)
- Good team player, problem solving skill and self-motivated
- Work independently with minimum supervision