Total 7 Director/C-Level financial controller job vacancies in Business Management / Project / Planning category in Singapore

We invite highly motivated, dynamic professionals to join our fast growing financial services consulting practice in Singapore to expand their financial services industry knowledge and skills. The KPMG financial services advisory team supports the various financial sectors in managing their day-to-day business challenges and developments. We support our financial services clients with a diverse range of consulting projects that include:

• Business growth (e.g. market entry, customer insights, merger, and acquisitions support)
• Operational process improvement across sector value chains
• Organisation-wide functional (re)design
• Digital and technology enablement
• Environmental, Social and Governance transformation
• Governance, Risk and Compliance design, remediation and transformation
• Front to back transformation
• Programme management support

You will be playing a crucial role in helping to drive KPMG’s global innovation agenda for Financial Services and will be part of a dynamic team culture.

The following key activities include:

• Helping our clients determine their new business models, products, platforms, and value creating activities to deliver their next set of revenue streams
• Developing market entry strategies to accelerate and derisk new business ventures
• Creating strategies, plans and initiatives that help markets and institutions scale new ecosystems that have financial services at the heart
• Reviewing and innovating the financial market infrastructure necessary to deliver the next generation of financial services, particularly in payments, digital currencies and assets, and data assets
• Working with challenger ecosystems across founders, hyperscalers, regulators or investors to help scale fintech businesses
• Working with incumbent financial institutions to respond to challengers by devising offensive and defensive innovation strategies

The ideal candidate should possess:

• At least 10 years of experience within financial services consulting or blended with industry experience at a top tier fintech, wholesale bank, investor, new business venture or crypto businesses
• Deep expertise in financial services strategy development and execution
• Hands on knowledge of fintech businesses and start-up/ scale-up technology-based businesses
• Deep expertise in platform-based business models, venture building or e-commerce
• Strong knowledge of central bank digital currencies, tokenisation, and financial services blockchain use cases
• Understand how to manage change within large financial institutions, and be familiar with scalable agile, systems and design thinking
• Possess strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Possess a track record of sales, origination, and business development – this is an essential skillset

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by KPMG Talent Acquisition team, personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only.

At KPMG in Singapore, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients, and communities. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, gender identity or expression, colour, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or other non-merit factors. We celebrate the different talents that our people bring and support every staff member in their journey to achieve personal and professional growth. One of the ways we do this is through Take Charge: Flexi-work, our flexible working framework which enables agile and innovative teams to help deliver our business goals.

Asia Regional FP&A

• Measure and track business performance in the Asia region on a monthly basis
• Provide monthly regional management P&L reports to the Asia management team 
• Manage key processes of a) annual Budget planning with guidance, key milestones, and target setting, and b) quarterly Forecast updates in collaboration with the Corporate Planning across the Asia region
• Support Head of Finance-Asia to drive initiatives and projects, by partnering with business and functional teams, such as new business models, M&A, and system implementations
• Business partnering and decision-making support for driving expected performances and achieving strategic objectives and financial goals
• Take leadership to optimize cross-functional processes and collaborate to maximize impact on businesses, customers, and teams
• Drive transformation and simplification of business processes with development of mindset to success
• Drive strong collaboration with country finance teams – provide coaching on FP&A related deliverables, business cases analysis, scenario planning and simulations
• Partner with CFU/HF/CF to ensure financial KPIs and reporting requirements
• Perform a standard costing process for Asia RDC operations – manage control principles and procedures in collaboration with SCM team
• Manage Finance master data in existing ERP and for the future SAP project.
• Establish strong functioning FP&A team for Asia Region - lead, coach and develop FP&A analysts

Country FP&A for Singapore/Alliance Cluster

• Perform quarterly forecast, annual budgeting, and monthly performance reviews with reconciliation analysis between actuals and forecasts
• Provide valuable input for decision-making support such as new product launch
• Work with functions to prepare budget / forecasts and consolidate them into country P&L
• Collaborate with Market Access function on pricing strategy and price setting, provide financial analysis to safeguard gross margin and ensure sustainable profitability

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will lead the business planning and budgeting process as well as manage the Company's financial analysis and projections. In addition, you will also work closely with the Operations Finance Team in financial and management reporting as well as transformation projects for finance and business related processes.

Oversee Procurement department to ensure the efficient operation and delivery of the hospital, specialists and projects services of the Company.

Provide support to the management team in both operational and strategic areas, drive business process improvement and spearhead the use of business analytics to enhance the strategy and decision making capabilities of the Company. This shall also include the pricing and costing processes of the Company.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial and Management Reporting

• Examine, analyze and present monthly financial results to the management team
• Review financial performance against historical results, budgets and forecasts, and perform variance analysis
• Prepare presentation slides of monthly financial results, including analyzing any fluctuation as well as identifying key business and profitability drivers, for reporting to the management team
• Accountable for providing financial monitoring for new businesses and projects spend, including tracking performance against business projection targets
• Examine and evaluate the cost-efficiency of departments/clinics in the Company
• Work closely with finance team to ensure the integrity of the financial data generated to stakeholders
• Ensure timeliness and accuracy of the weekly and monthly operational statistics are captured, including tracking of the daily statistics versus budget set
• Lead, motivate and develop the capabilities of the finance team with a view for their professional growth and contribution to the Company

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Lead the Company’s annual budget process by working with individual departments to prepare budgets, review and present to Senior Management for approval.
• Perform periodic forecasts, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Provide strategic financial planning support to management/HODs with data-driven analysis to make informed decisions
• Lead / participate in business projections including evaluation of new acquisitions/ businesses / clinics.
• Manage the group capital expenditure during the annual budgeting process and monitor the actual spending compared to the budget.
• Enhance data integrity and reporting controls to enable agile scenario reporting and analysis.
• Business Process Transformation
• Drive business processes improvement, assess operating effectiveness of internal controls and make recommendations to improve business processes & financial data integrity with the aim to continually improve internal processes.
• Implement business intelligence tool/data analytics tools and dashboard reports to drive efficiency and analysis over revenue and cost processes

Pricing and Costing

• Set up and maintain the pricing and costing SOPs and processes of the Company
• Hold periodic review with the management and business teams monitor pricing and costing trends of competitors and suppliers and propose follow up actions
• Incorporate the pricing and costing market trends into the business planning cycle of the Company in order to achieve the business performance targets

Procurement Department

• Oversee the Procurement function (including sourcing and purchasing, warehousing logistics, inventory control management, etc) with the support of a Assistant Director, Central Supplies Department.

Undertake any other duties requested by the Financial Controller and management

REQUIREMENTS:

• A recognized degree in accounting, finance or related discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience with supervisory experience
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability and solid knowledge of financial analysis and forecasting
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities

Moet Hennessy aims at making our commercial organization agile and efficient to deliver on our promises to shaping change, cultural and operational transformation. Our vision is to lead the future of luxury wines and spirits from nature to communities. Our company success will be created by pioneering people with passion for crafting experiences and turning challenges into opportunities to innovate.

The FP&A Director will work closely with our CFO, APAC on short and long-term financial planning and analysis of business operations to ensure profitable growth for Moet Hennessy brands in the Region. He/ She will examine, analyze, and evaluate the entirety of MHAP’s financial information, activities has well as external economic conditions and their impact on business operations. As the lead for Moet Hennessy’s financial budget, forecast and financial management reporting processes, you will be a key liaison with MH Markets, MH Maisons and Region’s business leaders for all financial matters.

Management Reporting, Planning and Analysis

• Lead the financial planning process including analysis on Volumes, Net Sales, Pricing, OPEX and Operating Profit
• Liaise with Region’s Management, MH Central, Maisons and other Regions on expectations, guidelines and timelines
• Prepare accurate and insightful business comments to explain the performance versus plans and previous year
• Analyze and provide insights on strategic business dynamics and trends as well as factors affecting business performance, highlight any financial issue requiring management attention

Business Partnering with Markets, Maisons and Region’s business leaders

• Bring financial insights and expertise in the decision-making process to ensure a sustainable, profitable growth
• Be a key contributor to monthly market’s business updates and quarterly business reviews
• Engage Regional Supply Planning team to ensure markets’ ability to achieve their targets, be a force of proposition when it comes to allocations and management of scarcity, and leverage on the logistics/ supply insights to better understand and monitor the trends
• Collaborate with Regional Center of Excellence and HR shared service center for all cost planning and monitoring, centrally and in markets

Develop the Finance Community in Asia Pacific

• Ensure adoption of MH Financial tools, processes, methodologies and definitions while re-enforcing and animating the regional controlling community to promote sharing of information & best practices
• Supervise Finance Governance in the Region in coordination with MH Central
• Contribute to the development of Finance knowledge in the Region

Team Management and Development

• Lead a high performing FP&A team, capitalise on the strengths of the individuals, while ensuring development of the team, fostering inter-operability and a supportive mindset
• Review the Roles & Responsibilities of the Regional FP&A team, depending on the organisation’s evolving needs and having in mind mobilities and succession planning

Requirements

• Minimum 12 years’ experience in Financial Planning / Finance Controlling in a multinational company with good knowledge of accounting principles and knowledge of internal control and processes
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong leadership skills and commercial acumen
• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and pressure
• Excellent time management skills with ability to prioritize and plan, and deliver quality results within tight deadlines
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Open to engage with different cultures
• Action and result-oriented
• Proficient with Excel. Hyperion Essbase, Anaplan and SAP knowledge is an advantage
• Fluent in English with proficiency of other language(s) will be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Develop financial models and analyses for new strategic initiatives
• Analyzes financial performance and communicates the performance to key stakeholders to support short- and long-term strategic planning and decision-making processes
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and management on budgeting, forecasting and cashflow requirements.
• Provides financial forecasting, budgets, performance analysis, investment monitoring and cash optimization, and in alignment with University’s guidelines.
• Conducts needs assessment and planning to meet business objectives.
• Develops and implements improvements to maximize benefits.
• Develops financial metrics that reflect outcomes of improvement work.
• Researches, analyzes and explains financial variances and complex accounting transactions.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Degree qualified ideally in Accounting/ Finance
• At least 12 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and ability to interact with team members across levels in achieving objectives.
• Pro-active, resourceful, able to take challenges, work independently or as a team.
• Self-starter that possesses initiative and takes on accountability
• Able to multi-task with ability to navigate in a dynamic fast paced environment

Havas Media Network Singapore is looking for a Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Director.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the Revenue, Compensation costs and New Business Reports in Magnitude through monthly closing process
• Supervise the preparation of the Budgeted/Forecasts of the Revenue and Compensation costs
• Working closely with the Billing team to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Billings and Revenue
• Build strong collaboration with Operational team to supervise and optimize:

1. Media ordering timeline (before mid-month M-1) to optimize the media delivery in month M and billing timeline
2. Media rebates & Operating discount revenue (being part of the rebate rates & Operating discount discussion/negotiation)
3. In collaboration with the CFO, determine a strategy and recommendations to be shared with the Operation Management to optimize the media allocation in order to maximize the Operating discount and Rebates revenue.

• Supervise and monitor client contracts, terms & conditions, audit clauses through a client contract tracker
• Assist Account Directors to determine price proposals by maximizing the profitability of the company and help to provide pitch information
• Maintain solid financial processes for the Media perimeter
• Month-end closing process (revenue closing and revenue accruals preparation, CFO report with analysis and comments of variation vs Budget and Forecast)
• Prepare operational reports on media performance, budget variance explanations, forecasts
• Responsible for improvement of audit results both internal, external and for client audits
• Improve and optimise the systems usage and the process automation
• Perform ad-hoc projects and tasks as requested

Job Requirements

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience with supervisory role preferred, preferably in the service/ professional industry
• Has experience at an external audit firm
• Bachelor Degree in Accountancy or any equivalent/relevant degrees
• Proficient in MS Office and MS Excel
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Well-organised with excellent time management skills, able to meet strict deadlines
• Good team player and able to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Committed, highly self-motivated individual who can work independently
• Meticulous with an eye for detail
• Analytical and possess good problem-solving skills

About Havas

Founded in 1835 in Paris, France, Havas is one of the world’s largest communications groups. At Havas, we believe that companies have a key role to play in solving the biggest challenges our world faces today – and every day we strive to operate responsibly for ourselves and our stakeholders. We operate under the vision and mission to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people.

We employ 20,000 people in more than 100 countries, adopting a fully integrated model through our 60+ Havas Villages around the world – the Havas Village offers a truly unique proposition, where cross discipline teams work together, ensuring agility and a seamless experience for our clients.

About Havas Singapore

Within our Singapore Village is a network of business units including Havas Media, Arena Media, Socialyse, Red Havas, and BLKJ Havas, offering services across media, social, PR, and creative. Since 2015, we’ve had an unbroken streak of Agency of the Year (AOTY) wins across disciplines, including Integrated Marketing AOTY, Media AOTY, Specialist AOTY, and PR AOTY.

We are also committed to building a diverse culture where our people can grow, thrive, and feel that they belong. In 2023, we won Best Agency Culture (Gold) at Marketing Interactive’s Agency of the Year Awards, and are a Great Place To Work® Certified™ agency.

Here at Havas, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual's ability to perform their job.

*Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.*

What impact will you make?

At Deloitte, we offer a unique and exceptional career experience to inspire and empower talents like you to make an impact that matters for our clients, people and society. Whatever your aspirations, Deloitte offers you unrivalled opportunities to realise your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further, and to find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.

Work you’ll do

Deloitte brings together professionals with diverse experience to provide customized solutions for clients across all segments of the banking and capital markets industries. We serve our clients locally, while drawing upon the firm’s considerable global resources and industry expertise.

This position aims to provide Management Support to Japanese companies operating in the Southeast Asia Region in the Financial Services Industry. You will work alongside our clients to help them make decisions and implement solutions based on "Heart of the Business" issues and problem statements from architecting the strategic transformation agenda through to driving business value through execution and implementation.

You will work across all key segments within banking (retail, SME, wholesale, and wealth) and drive the latest and best-in-class transformation narrative for our banking sector clients across SEA. Typical engagements which you could be involved in include:

• Launch of a new Digital challenger bank or digital transformation of an incumbent bank
• Open banking and market infrastructure initiatives
• Front office / sales and service transformation
• ESG and sustainable finance transformation

You will exercise strong analytical and critical thinking skills, solve complex problems, communicate your findings, conduct impact assessment, and change management. Finally, you will work independently and collaboratively in a team.

You’ll support our clients in their transformation journey by:

• Identifying business requirements/overall strategy and vision, and any opportunities for efficiencies in existing process / service design.
• Understanding how to use technology, human-centered design thinking and innovative approaches to solve our client’s business needs.
• Participating in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues.
• Conducting relevant research, data analysis, and create reports.
• Maintaining responsibility for completion and accuracy of work products.
• Assessing restructuring operating models, organizational structures, and business processes to streamline core operations’ service delivery.
• Assisting in proposal development, as requested.
• Actively expanding consulting skills and professional development through training courses, mentoring, and daily interaction with clients.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose and shared values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to our clients, our people, and the communities, and to make an impact that matters. In addition to living our purpose, Directors across our Firm are expected to:

• Lead and act as an exemplary role model for leaders at all levels, whilst continuously promoting a sense of loyalty and energizes others to act.
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture by cultivating and amplifying individual and team strengths.
• Develop and sustain long-term, trust-based relationships with stakeholders, clients, and team.
• Manage the sustainable development of a strong pipeline of talent for current and future success, by driving a talent experience that differentiates Deloitte.
• Lead behavioral and cultural change through a supportive, collaborative, and highly inclusive environment where team members feel supported, respected, and engaged.

Requirements:

If you are someone with:

• Tertiary qualification from a well ranked institution.
• Minimum 10 – 15 years of working experience in the Consulting Industry and/or Financial Services Industry – Bank (Retail / Wholesale / Wealth management).

· Advanced Japanese language proficiency is required as the role will require liaising with Japanese clients.

• Has achieved success in growing a consulting practice in both team and revenue.
• Experience leading strategy, operating model definition and implementation with these areas:

o Digital transformation of an incumbent bank

o Design and execution of new digital banking propositions across Retail, SME, and Wealth

o Front office transformation in banking i.e. sales and service transformation including customer journeys, service blueprints and process redesign

o Target Operating Model-led transformation to enable key drivers of change in banking (customer centricity, digitalization, growth, efficiency, regulatory change, sustainability)

• Experience with Agile / Scrum methodologies, or Professional Scrum Master / Product Owner certifications will be well regarded.
• Human-centered design thinking, logical structuring, and analytical problem-solving skills
• Tech fluency and knowledge to provide advice to business, experience and understanding of Cloud solutions and platform implementation (e.g. CRM, core banking, payments, contact center).
• Proficient in excel and PowerPoint usage to present recommendations to client.
• Exceptional interpersonal, team building, and communication skills showcasing executive presence with demonstrated ability to manage senior client stakeholders i.e. CXOs.
• Ability to build consensus and foster change in ambiguous settings.
• Commitment to professional excellence, as well as personal and professional growth.
• An appreciation of the consulting lifestyle and ability to travel (both locally and abroad) is a pre-requisite to fit to our short-term and long-term project assignment.

Next Steps

So, what are you waiting for? Join the winning team now.

Position may be based in Singapore, but project location could be anywhere in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Due to volume of applications, we regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.