Director, Finance Planning, Analysis & Advisory (FPA&A) Retail

Reporting directly to the AVP Head of Asia WAM FPA&A the primary responsibility is the presentation and analysis of Asia WAM Retail channel financial results requiring consolidation across multiple countries and differentiated business sub-channels.

Position Responsibilities:

• Leading monthly and quarterly management reporting for Asia WAM Retail and the preparation of financial review packages for Asia WAM CEO & CFO Global WAM CFO and the Global WAM Leadership Team (GWLT).
• Leading the preparation of the annual business plan across the Asia WAM Retail channel managing timelines and deliverables analyzing results and preparing plan review materials for leadership.
• Ensuring all reporting is high quality timely and accurate and provides insightful financial analysis to support decision making. This will include explaining financial results vs plan prior periods and previous forecasts. An in-depth understanding of key business issues will be essential for knowledgeable and insightful analysis.
• Partnering with the Asia WAM Retail business to deliver value and insight beyond the core reporting suite including product profitability analysis and other decision support activities.
• Establishing effective relationships and building trust and credibility across the Finance organization by partnering with Asia country Heads of Finance (and their teams) to ensure financial analysis has the necessary breadth and depth.
• Demonstrating advanced knowledge regarding technical aspects of work. Review data for reasonability and identify root causes and drivers of the results.
• Using appropriate judgment in dealing with issues and requests demonstrating the ability to effectively prioritize work balance resource requirements and determine solutions.
• Supporting ad hoc projects as assigned e.g. pricing initiatives cost optimization product profitability strategic growth cases.

Leadership and Team Development

• Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills with a specific focus on team and individual professional development: e.g. hiring performance management capability building succession planning
• Championing an environment where employees share insights and generate ideas to become more innovative and add new value for the customer in everything we do.
• A focus on strong team engagement and staff morale.
• Strong relationship management and influencing skills. Recognising the importance of buy-in and involving others in the decision-making process. By building maintaining and leveraging a strong network of relationships at multiple levels within the company driving results in a collaborative and decentralized environment. Managing and influencing teams and individuals on both a direct and indirect reporting basis across a matrix structure.

• Displaying strong people management skills to facilitate training coaching and day to day direction to junior staff across a multi-location team.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong FP&A and business partnering experience:
  • A degree holder of Accounting or Finance.
  • Relevant professional qualifications (such as MBA CPA CA) preferred
  • With 10 years of related experience
• Strong business acumen with demonstrable capability to understand and analyze complex concepts and articulate big picture perspective.
• An in-depth knowledge and deep understanding of asset management market trends competitors and products.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater a message to various stakeholders including senior executive and non-technical audiences
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate negotiate and influence effectively
• Proven ability to be proactive and work independently or part of a team while thriving in a fast paced high-performing environment whilst managing multiple changing priorities and requests
• Strong attention to detail with excellent judgement financial modelling analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong accounting and systems knowledge e.g. IFRS SmartView PowerBI Anaplan & emergent AI capabilities
• The ability to multi-task and manage priorities across a global multi-channel matrix in a demanding and result-oriented environment
• Someone who is a team player collaborative a self-starter well-organized innovative and displays a high level of initiative.

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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