VAS Financial Planning and Analysis- Assistant Manager

Deliverables

This jobholder will be responsible for driving robust budgeting, financial planning, financial performance management, and forecasting process. This role is also tasked with driving a step-change in data analytics and actionable insight generation using financial and non-financial data sets.

The role will report directly to the Head of FP&A.

Scopes

1. Drive the budgeting and financial planning process

• Be a visible driving force and center for financial analysis, performance management and forecasts, advising the school finance team on performance and actions across departments and divisions.

• Coordinate and drive the formulation of the new To-Be budgeting and financial planning process, template and workflows

• Contribute to ensuring that performance management, forecasting and financial reporting is valuable and consistent, highest quality as well as timely and accurate

2. Deliver financial reporting and analysis

• Prepare financial performance reports as regular cadence to management team, Group Finance and related stakeholders including Division Heads and School Directors

• Deep dive into financial data, leveraging the analytics techniques to identify trends, variances, root causes, hidden opportunities for growth, cost optimization, and improvement.

• Perform comprehensive variance analysis and highlight risks and opportunities on P&L delivery suggestions on gap-closing actions and/or actions to accelerate financial performance

• Maintain a tight control over budget delivery and spending, ensuring financial discipline at all levels of organization

• Ensure and drive quality effectiveness in all FP&A processes and deliverables

3. Monitor the budgeting, forecasting and management of Capital Expenditure

• Coordinate and drive the end-to-end Capex budgeting, management and reporting mechanism to ensure investment efficiency

• Assist on business case, investment proposals and carry out ROI analysis for business decision making

• Work in conjunction with Facility, Campus and IT team to support CAPEX budgeting planning and budgetary control and provide corrective actions.

4. Adopt automation and intelligence solutions.

• Build and develop financial tools in terms of financial data, reporting, KPI by dashboards and automation reports

• Drive improvement projects on cost optimization and process automation.

5. Standardize Finance process Governance

• Produce the finance process standards/manual and conduct trainings to related departments where necessary

• Develop and implement operational risk management policies as required.

• Coordinate with implementing units to monitor and control the implementation process to ensure compliance with processes and regulations.

• Prepare risk assessment reports and necessary reports.

• University graduate

• At least 4-5 years of experience of financial planning and analysis, with a strong background on financial business partnering

• Excellent financial modeling, financial metrics and reports, and analytical skills.

• Solid communication and stakeholder management skill,

• Well-organized and strong project management skill

• Good attention to details, well-organized and strong logical thinking

• Strong English command

• Experience in managing ERP and budgeting system is a clear advantage

• Strong efficiency in Excel, Power BI, Power Querry