Senior Manager, Finance, Asia

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Job Description:

Asia Regional Office Management Reporting

• Lead period-end management reporting of Asia Regional Office:
• Prepare financial analysis and reporting materials for Finance Review Meeting & Asia Business Review
• Perform reasonableness check on accounting entries posted by the RO Manila financial reporting team and perform TM1 uploads
• Prepare KPI report and commentaries to analyze the actual spends against budget
• Prepare accurate monthly forecasts through close liaison with the business functions and the Finance Business Partner of Chief Information and Digital Office, and Chief Client and Distribution Office.
• Calculate quarterly FMM governance cost and commentary for reporting to Corporate team
• Support regular transfer pricing study updates and governance costs allocation methodology refresh.
• Liaise with Asia Business Units' Finance team on annual enablement costs recharge and enablement costs allocation methodology refresh.
• Review/Prepare period-end and monthly expense management and FP&A reports of ARO (incl. MER) with commentaries for reporting to Corporate Finance, Asia expense management team, FP&A team and Asia function leaders
• Support the Hyperion Financial Planning Project to ensure proper transition from TM1 to Hyperon for Asia expenses reporting

Finance Business Partnership

• Act as finance partner of corporate functions in the RO.
• Prepare management reports by function and discuss with Functions leaders or designated cost centre owners to provide business insights
• Establish operating guidelines and procedure for expenses management in the regional office
• Review of expenses vs budget and highlight unbudgeted spends and escalation to Finance executives
• Meet with key stakeholders such as HR team and function team leads to perform reforecast of spends on a monthly basis

Business Planning

• Lead the Annual Business Plan template preparation, circulation and consolidation
• Prepare the 5 year Strategy Plan based on the latest business strategies and direction from management

Preferred skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, in particular strong stakeholder management skills
• Solid management reporting (including FP&A) experience
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Solid Knowledge about the operations of FP&A application (e.g. TM1 and Hyperion), and accounting systems (e.g. SAP)
• Proficiency in spoken and spoken English
• Capable of multitasking and working under stress

Qualifications

• University graduate with major of business administration, accounting, finance, economics, etc. with at least 8 years of working experience
• Preferably working experiences gained in audit firms, consulting firms and/or sizable multinational companies
• Knowledge of financial services industry (e.g. insurance and asset management) is preferred
• CA or CPA is required

Job Category:
Finance

Posting End Date:
29/10/2026", "salary_raw": "Row(double=None, string=None)"}