Job title: Senior FP& Analyst
Job type: Permanent
Industry: IT
Location: Malaysia
Job published: 2025-04-04
Job ID: 41299

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