Finance Analyst (Group Management Reporting)

What you will do?

Prepare monthly group management report including but not limited to:

• consolidating, reconciling to legal book to ensure completeness and accuracy of the management reporting
• reviewing of intercompany transactions mismatch
• ensuring financials are reported in the appropriate categories (business related/non-business related like corporate centers)
• analyzing abnormality, publish month-end results, prepare slides, present financial and key highlights to CFO on Workday (WD) 4
• prepare and submit reporting deliverables to Singtel
• Perform in-depth analysis including analyzing current and past financial data/ performance and identifying trends, understanding actual performance against budget, year-on-year, and communicating the insights of these analysis to the senior management
• Prepare high standard results presentation deck and Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) on the company’s performance for management to present to various stakeholders i.e. ExCom and Boards and ensure alignment of the key messages to the external parties
• Work closely with the financial analysts supporting the Client Services Units and Service Organizations to gain business insights for Group performance analysis
• Responsible for coordinating and preparing group budget and forecast submission, including but not limited to reviewing business units submissions, analysing reasonableness of OPEX, managing intercompany eliminations and other adjustments, and submitting consolidated budget and forecast financials to Singtel
• Responsible for changes in BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation Tool) hierarchy, including Account Codes based on key OPEX grouping and Cost Centre based on group organization structure
• Acquire a good understanding on the hierarchy and rules set-up in BPC and ensure the hierarchy is designed to meet various reporting required by the management and business leaders
• Initiate discussion with respective finance teams as and when there are changes in organization structure or implementation of new business model, and propose ways to handle such changes in BPC
• Design new business reports, ongoing improvements and re-engineering of existing reports to support the business needs
• Any ad-hoc tasks when assigned

What the Ideal Candidate should possess:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting / Finance, ACCA / CA professional certification preferred
• At least 4-5 years of relevant experience in Financial Analysis and Management Reporting in MNC environment
• Previous work experience in Big 4 audit firms and listed companies are preferred
• Advanced proficiency in MS applications (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Experience with SAP, business intelligence tools (tableau, PowerBI), management reporting / budgeting tools (BPC) is a plus
• Possess good business acumen, excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to liaise with various internal and external stakeholders
• highly motivated to overcome challenges, and able to act as change agent for finance
• Meticulous, proactive, results oriented, hands-on and able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadline