PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Reporting to the Director of Business Development & Analytics, the role of the Business Development Manager APAC is to maximize the return on the company’s investment dollars by providing fact-based input into development projects and by accurately evaluating and communicating to the BD team and the executive management the financial risk and return of potential business opportunities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identifying and evaluating potential development opportunities in new or existing accounts.

• Providing financial insights to help choose the most promising concepts.

• Offering negotiation support for new business initiatives.

• Coordinating with Business Development, Operations, and Design & Construction teams to build a comprehensive Business Case for each project, including operating assumptions, financial projections, risk assessments, and potential upsides.

• Evaluate and interpret RFP, project manage end to end bid submission.

• Engaging in negotiations with landlords and potential business partners.

• Preparing and presenting Business Cases for capital expenditure approval.

• Conducting Post Audits of Business Cases to compare actual project performance with the approved projections and sharing insights with the Business Development team for continuous improvement.

• Leading sales and trend analysis, capital reconciliations, and other key commercial and financial metrics.

• Ad-hoc reports

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

· Minimum 8 years of combined education and professional background.

· Essential to have robust financial experience.

· Skilled in NPV, IRR, cost/benefit, trend analysis, and financial modeling.

· Business Degree or equivalent qualification.

· Valued experience in travel retail, especially in Retail or F&B.

· Ability to discern financial and strategic implications conceptually.

· Experienced in interpreting legal agreements and knowledge in commercial real estate and service companies.

· Understanding of long-term financial planning impacts and aligning with organizational goals.

· Proven ability to grasp business needs, stakeholder priorities, and employee dynamics.

· History of fostering positive work environments, collaborating, and guiding teams towards shared objectives.

The Company:

Our client is a well-established and growing telco operator. With their expansion scheme, they are now looking for a Infra Project Manager.

As a Infra Project Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Ensure that the team conducts health check, conduct infrastructure monitoring, handle customer queries, investigate incidents, resolve, apply fixes and ensure they are tracked until closure.
• Involve in transitions between the project and operation teams.

• Engage at all levels of customer’s relationships.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships within a customer’s organization and escalate if needed.
• Comfortable leading meetings presenting to Customers, Partners/vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Simultaneously driving multiple short-term/long-term complex projects with tight deadlines.

• Knowledgeable/experienced in IT operations.
• Strong understanding of Infra
• Project Management experience within a fast-paced high-volume environment is a must.
• Ability to influence others, gain commitments and ensure accountability.
• Strong collaboration, communications, and leadership skills
• Detail oriented with a structured organized mentality.
• High energy, self-starter comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced challenging environment.
• Excellent direct-report management skills to ensure timely and accurate reporting.

• Contract completion bonus.
• Allowances.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure timely, accurate month-end closing and analyse financial information for reporting to Management;
• Responsible for preparation and closing of monthly and annual financial statements
• Coordinate and liaise with internal parties to support intercompany activities
• Dedication of work and working closely with your team
• Coordinate and liaise with external parties like external auditors, tax agents, corporate secretarial agents, local tax and government authorities where required
• Verify on daily petty cash and monthly reimbursement claims as well as handling of staff purchase
• Monitor the day-to-day financial operations within the company, (eg, invoicing, stock, cash flow and other transactions)
• Prepare Monthly Profit & Loss statement, Quarterly auditor's reports and annual financial budgets
• Preparing of weekly bank reconciliation reports and summaries for management
• Analyzing of financial reports
• Review and finalize accounting work completed by your team
• To support any ad-hoc assignments

Job Requirement

• Degree in Accounting or related fields
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in Accounting, including 2 years of managerial experience
• Able to work independently within minimum supervision
• Possesses leadership skills
• Meticulous and organized
• Able to plan, analyze and solve problems, conscientious and accurate
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to work closely with the team