This is a role that requires financial expertise and understanding of professional consultancy business environment to perform detailed analysis of business and project financial statements. In monitoring of business performance, your findings and recommendations will support business decisions to improve forecast accuracy and aid solution seeking in driving business performance improvements.
The role has a high visibility to Management and opportunity to drive process improvements.
Responsibilities:
1. Support the business finance team to ensure key deliverables and timelines for business reviews or submissions are met.
2. Support tracking and analysis of monthly forecasts vs actuals for backlog, booking and revenue by business lines, explaining forecast movements and identifying key drivers for changes or variances.
3. Run regular performance tracking reports and work with business to highlight risks / opportunities, analyze growth trends and margins.
4. Build, revamp or enhance templates/reports to facilitate efficient and effective planning, reconciliation, and review. Make use of financial reporting systems to extract data or build dashboards, perform uploads into financial reporting systems.
5. Participate actively and work closely with business leaders to support business improvements and Finance team to drive accuracy in reporting and forecasts.
6. Work independently in fast-paced environment, with the ability to handle some ambiguity and initiate escalation or follow-up where needed.
7. Participate in semi-annual budget exercise, work closely with project finance leads on budget preparation, and assist with the preparation of budget reports and presentations.
8. Assist with the monthly preparation of Division reports and identify areas for improvement, digitalization.
Requirements:
- Degree in Accountancy, Finance or Business with at least 5 years in a related role in service-related organization or construction industry.
- Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities with advanced Excel skills. Good commercial sense, able to learn on the go and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Applied knowledge of business systems (e.g. Hyperion Financial Management, Oracle EPM, SmartView etc.) would be an advantage.
- Good verbal and written communication, comfortable communicating with multiple senior leaders.
- Adaptable and able to work under pressure, good personal efficiency, can-do attitude.
- Self-motivated and a keen learner with an inquisitive mind.
- A good teammate who is hands-on, meticulous and able to manage multi stakeholders.
- Advanced EXCEL user with good financial modelling experience
