Financial Business Partner Manager

Job Responsibilities:

Scope 1:

• Act as a trusted finance adviser and facilitator of productive business discussions, including but not limited to financial process improvement, business case building, etc.
• Understand how the business runs through frequent formal and informal update with stakeholders
• Facilitating annual & quarterly budgeting process to align resource allocation with division strategic initiatives
• Get involved in commercial and strategic decision making through business analysis
• Embed financial thinking in partners’ daily process
• Facilitate business users to perform regular expense and budget review
• Provide advices to Head of Finance and Chief Financial Officer regarding business requirements and implementing flexible budget control
• Update management with any alarming expense KPIs and recommend remediation
• Facilitate business users to deliver strategic projects by providing advices on potential challenges and best practice

Scope 2:

• Provide regular and ad hoc business analysis on company performance in accordance with requirements from management.
• Analyse budget from different perspectives and provide advices to Management for implementation of budget to be in line with company’s strategy.
• Analyse expenses to provide understanding of the cost impact of key elements in the business, make recommendations to Management the solution when appropriate.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc expense reports including variance analysis related to business partner functions, highlighting areas of concerns/attention and follow up with relevant departments for proper actions.
• Monitor and report expense overruns including recommended actions to management.
• Regular monitoring of significant expenses such as advertising, contest, rental, headcount and staff cost, etc. Coordinate with budget holders and relevant personnel to stay on top of these key items.
• Monitor the expense within the loading allowance.
• Provide expense forecasts and scenario analysis as required by Management.

 Scope 3: Others

Job Requirements:

Qualifications: 

• Professional Certificate in CPA/CA, ACCA, CFA. At least 05 year experiences of working in Insurance/ Financial/ banking or equivalent position.

Knowledge and Skill:

• Good communication, problem solving, influencing and stakeholder management skills. Good English (especially speaking and business writing).
• Be able to work with details and good analytical skills to deal with large of amount of complex data. Advance Microsoft excel/access skill is a must. Good knowledge in SQL & VBA is an advantage.