Total 2 course director job vacancies in Finance / Banking / Insurance category in Singapore, Singapore

We are seeking a highly dynamic FP&A leader to oversee and lead finance partnering activities for foodpanda's APAC markets and all businesses, including new ventures. This role will involve leading and managing a team of five senior FP&A professionals who support the respective APAC markets.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee and lead finance partnering activities for APAC markets and all businesses including new businesses. Capacity to adapt to the challenges of operating in volatile economies and managing the impacts of inflation and currency devaluations, ensuring real values is derived from right strategies.
• Focusing on markets which are developing/under developed but has huge potential for growth (PK,BD,PH and CLM) to support and contribute on the strategy piece of operational finance.
• Partner with regional business heads and country managers in management accounting, budgeting and forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Develop financial plans based on an in-depth understanding of business needs, with the objective of achieving growth and profitability targets.
• Oversee financial and information analysis, measure the financial impact from a broad range of variables and key indicators.
• Compile and present financial data to evaluate business performance, and provide informed recommendations.
• Driving the Business to meet target KPIs by providing proactive insights to highlight opportunities for improvement to support decision making (e.g. pricing)
• Leading change management projects including new country expansion, new vertical launches or new product rollouts
• Lead ad-hoc projects, and continually automate/streamline processes to improve business efficiency in the region keeping in view the complexities around various countries of operation.
• To groom existing team and further build to be the next hyper-functional finance team

Team Summary

The Finance Business Partner team is an agile, highly visible team that works using a consultative model with business to apply data to business and finance decisions as well as measure performance.
You will serve as a strategic finance partner to the leaders of Visa’s Advisory Services business and will collaborate with senior leadership to develop financial strategies and analytics to enable business decision making, and lead the long-term planning, forecasting, budgeting, financial analytics for the business. We are looking for a Finance leader, who is a problem solver with great communication skills. You will provide financial insights that enables the business partners to plan, prioritize investments, execute and manage performance.

You are both a player and coach, providing financial thought partnership and analytical support to partners. This is a high visibility role where you will keep senior management informed on performance and support decision making, business reviews, strategy/execution projects, and ad hoc analysis.

What a Director, Finance Business Partner – Value Added Services, Advisory does at Visa:

• Partner closely with cross-regional and cross-functional Finance leads to understand revenue drivers and elevate the level of analysis around revenue and related costs
• Establish and maintain excellent working partnerships with the VAS Advisory delivery function leadership teams, both regionally and globally
• Develop and present strategic insights about the Advisory Services business
• Lead key financial activities for the Advisory Services business, including multi-year strategic planning, annual financial planning, quarterly outlook and business reviews, month-end analytics and management reporting, and on-going financial risks and opportunities assessment
• Provide meaningful driver-based analytics and insights to senior leadership and executive management audience on the Advisory Services’ business’ financial performance and forward-looking outlook
• Understand business levers and recommend measures to further improve financial results and business margins, while assessing financial risks and opportunities, and evaluating options to optimize return on investments
• Establish efficient processes and expand the reporting and analytics capabilities across broader Advisory
• Spearhead ad-hoc projects to further improve the overall performance of the team and organization(s)
• Decision support to senior finance leadership on investment / project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments
• Provide thought leadership and guidance over core processes building efficiencies and streamlining deliverables
• Actively seeks opportunities to introduce new tools and improve analysis used for function communications
  • Support the month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting requirements in accordance with deadlines
  • Work with limited direction, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to drive rigorous, fact-based recommendations to senior management, functional, or regional management while supporting syndication with stakeholders across the organization
  • Work with other VAS delivery functions to ensure VAS leader and Global teams have a clear consolidated view of VAS in AP

Why this is important to Visa

The VAS Function is a relatively new organization in Visa but has been identified as one of the most critical new functions, specifically to diversify and grow Visa’s revenue both in the medium and long term. The FBP will be part of one of the fastest growing functions in Visa over the next few years.