A. EastSpring Investments (Singapore) Limited is developing user centric and finance focused data platforms (ERP, EPM and Data Lake) to support the firm’s strategic initiatives and global growth opportunities.
B. These platforms will assist the Finance function in the execution of its business-critical control responsibilities as well as supporting business decision making with modern finance analytics and insights.
C. This project will deliver end to end data capabilities for the Finance function and other relevant stakeholders covering data modelling, reporting, dashboarding and the development of any tooling requirements to support business growth.
· Financial Reporting Quality Control:
Be responsible for exploring and implementing improvements to ensure top-notch quality in Financial Reporting. Leverage innovative systems, streamline workflows, and provide comprehensive training to maintain the integrity and accuracy of Financial Reports and Management Information.
· Advisory and Decision Support:
Rapidly respond to the financial requirements of our Business Units (BU) by analyzing complex accounting matters and providing astute professional judgments. Collaborate with the international finance team to oversee and manage group-wide accounting reporting issues, demonstrating a holistic approach to financial governance.
· Information Integration and Analysis:
Drive the establishment and maintenance of effective information-sharing mechanisms between BU finance and the broader Group finance function. Conduct thorough analysis on Business Group fFnancial Reports and present findings to senior management. Contribute significantly to the group's Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), working closely with the international finance team to ensure accurate financial disclosures, forecasting, and budgeting, thereby providing robust financial insights for strategic decision-making.
· Process Optimization and Risk Management:
Spearhead the design and implementation of process improvements across the entire finance organization, identifying potential risk areas and ensuring effective control measures are in place. Your efforts will result in enhanced operational efficiency while mitigating risks within the financial reporting structure.
· Finance Data Analytics:
Become a data subject matter expert (SME) across platforms, finance and business topics, helping to build data pipelines, delivering financial insights to drive forward our businesses and embedding these as self-serve capabilities within our platforms, where appropriate.
Responsible for driving forward the development of data models for new products, business lines and platforms capabilities to support data flows from Finance operations to FP&A Functions.
Collaborate closely and partner with data scientists, engineers, analysts and Business Intelligence analysts across the region and platforms, at the business group, enterprise and global level to deliver moderately complex analytical solutions to address business needs.
Job Responsibilities:
· Develop data pipelines to deliver commercially focused financial insights and analysis, both at Project Delivery level and subsequent enhancements
· Own the design of finance data schemas, partnering closely with finance stakeholders and data engineers
· Identifies requirements for onboarding of additional data sources into our data lake and various data requirements underpinning the platforms (including but not limited to ERP and EPM)
· Supports finance in ad-hoc data analytics or deep dive analysis, working alongside data engineers and BI analysts to develop long term solutions as appropriate
· Partner with product developers on the more complex data aspects of their feature delivery
· Ensures appropriate documentation, controls and testing are in place to support your features at all times, working alongside our controls manager on these aspects (including but not limited to End-to-End Data handshakes and integrations)
· Collaborate and work with EastSpring’s parent company Prudential on all Master Data Management related matters, including Enterprise-wide applications. Enable the broader organizations focus on insights by maximizing the value of our data and digital core investment
· Be the GO-TO person for all Finance Data related matters and Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Key Accountabilities
· Gather functional requirements and develop user stories working directly with business stakeholders to enable business insights.
· Filter, clean and prepare data to support data reporting and analysis.
· Gather requirements, create user stories, resolve solution gaps, architect and model dashboards and build standardized data visualization models to deliver sustainable, effective and efficient reporting and analytical solutions.
· Partner with leadership and the team to identify and manage the core set of metrics needed to measure performance.
· Evaluate the performance of processes, services and outcomes and drive performance improvement.
· Partner with teams to develop a detailed understanding of the business and offer collaborative and technical solutions to solve business problems.
· Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
· Other duties as assigned
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in accounting, finance, data analytics, computer science or related fields. Numerical with good understanding of accounting and finance domain requirements, basic finance concepts and business insights is a MUST;
· Prior relevant Finance experience in asset management companies, FP&A, Data Analytics and demonstrated knowledge on fund related matters preferred;
· Demonstrated knowledge on business and regulatory matters relating to fund management Industry;
· Minimally 3 years’ experience in data analysis, business intelligence or data modelling. Ability to master massive amounts of data through various integrated platforms, preferably with data lakes, is a MUST;
· Excellent and good practical experience in Advance Excel and / or SQL coding capabilities. Preferably, with experience in RPA and Power Query; PBF tool Knowledge eg. Hyperion Finance Management / OneStream systems and Oracle ERP will be an added advantage;
· Ability to work in collaborative, cross-functional, agile teams as well as independently, including experience in managing stakeholders in different regions and across functions
· Self-starter and highly self-motivated, ability to lead discussions with clarity of thoughts and able to handle ambiguities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to meet tight deadlines, hands-on approach, independent and resourceful in solution delivery;
· Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to write business requirements and drive execution of solutions
· Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to accuracy and quality
· Ability to understand project complexities and lifecycle to break it down into smaller, attainable tasks, including collaboration with stakeholders to investigate, triage, and solution data
