Regional FP&A Manager, SEA

The Regional Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, SEA is a key member of the Regional management team and is responsible for reporting the financial performance of operations in the Region, focusing on profitability and ensuring accuracy and consistency of management reports.

Areas of focus include:

• Develop, implement, and maintain an effective planning and analysis capability in the Region that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of the Region’s portfolio of businesses.
• Routinely communicate sub-location and regional consolidated financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics.
• Ensure timely and complete monthly and quarterly management reporting, at Regional and Sub-location level as required for management purposes, including profitability analyses per product lines, market segments and accounts.
• Analyze the financial performance and outlook with the Regional Management Team and suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications.
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting exercises for the various business units at Regional and Sub-location level as required for management purposes.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis and projects upon requests from Regional CFO including business planning for future acquisitions and direct support to sub-locations as required.
• Drive improvements as a key thought leader with the regional finance team, influencing decision making, identifying finance priorities, managing directly and indirectly – FP&A staff in multiple locations. Partner with accounting, treasury, tax as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Develop budget/forecast planning in line with corporate requirements.
• Build detailed budget for specific legal entities.
• Build effective and efficient reporting templates.
• Coordinate collection and production of information.
• Actively lead the construction of budget/forecast presentation.
• Present results to ExCo/Senior Management.

Reporting & Business Analysis

• Support general accounting functions of the company.
• Ensure all revenue and costs are recognized completely and accurately through client billing/supplier invoices of proper accruals, supervise analytical allocation of accounting entries.
• Ensure General and Administrative costs are properly reported in their month of occurrence with proper analytical allocation.
• Control accuracy and completeness of information reported.
• Analyze variances against budget/forecast and previous year.
• Prepare monthly analyses for management, including product line profitability, analysis by contract, rolling forecast and G&A review.

Financial Control Standard

• Management of General & Administration expenditure for selected items such as telecom, recruitment costs, travel.
• Management of headcount information with region in liaison with HR department.

Process Improvement

• Continuously review work processes to ensure efficient workflow to maximize staff efficiency and quality of information flow with other departments.

Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications combined with work experience in a senior finance managerial capacity and exposure to all accounting disciplines
• CA or CPA qualifications
• Minimum 10 years of working experience with at least 5 years experience of regional financial planning & analysis responsibility or equivalent, preferably in a multi-national organization with a revenue of at least US$10 million.
• Experience in a fast paced, multi-national organisation, ideally within the professional services industry.
• Experienced in supporting operations in developing countries, diverse nationalities and cultures.
• Exposure to dealing with senior executive and operation management teams
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills to provide detailed and valuable analysis to management.
• Strong technical ability to extract data and build clear reports that are highly automated.
• Hands-on with day-to-day operations, able to work under pressure, deliver results and observe deadlines.
• Demonstrated relationship building skills across large/diverse people business.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to operate at both a strategic and tactical level in a highly complex environment.
• Exposure to financial analysis and management reporting within a complex, detail-focused environment.
• Exposure to different styles and personalities of business unit leaders.
• Operate in a customer oriented environment, with experience in professional services industry desirable.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to deliver results in a matrix reporting environment.
• Good interpersonal skills and driver of change.
• Excellent technical computer skills with highly advanced Excel and Access knowledge – knowledge of Cognos/Oracle an advantage.