Finance Business Partner

About the Role
This role is responsible for effective management reporting of financials to both internal and external stakeholders within stipulated timelines. Key responsibilities include tracking actuals, conducting ad-hoc analyses, and providing accurate and reliable development of short and long-term forecasts against board and internal targets.

Job Accountabilities

• Overall management reporting of company performance and periodic tracking against planned targets.
• Support the financial planning, analysis, and reporting function by providing comprehensive reports that detail actual versus budget and forecasted results, including clear and concise variance explanations.
• Drive cost analysis and highlight key variances to targets and historical trends.
• Prepare and provide various management reports, support the budget cycle, and prepare current estimates, long-term forecasts, and business plans.
• Assist in financial modeling for projects and investment decisions, and maintain budget and budgetary controls by preparing ad-hoc analyses on restructuring scenarios and the impact on cash flows for management.
• Manage the generation, review, delivery, and release of monthly consolidated financial data to business stakeholders and other finance teams.
• Provide historical trend analysis by reviewing current performance and KPIs against historical data.
• Recommend and track benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance.
• Collaborate closely with Financial Reporting to identify opportunities for restructuring the balance sheet and provide economic value to the business.
• Set up projects with the objective of producing outputs quickly (eliminating manual intervention) for senior management by flexing key operational and performance indicators.
• Establish systems and templates to provide reports that detail actual versus budget and forecasted results, including clear and concise variance explanations.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in Business/Finance and a professional qualification such as CA, CIMA, MBA, or ACCA.
• Minimum of 6 years of work experience, with at least 4 years in accounting, finance, budgeting, and/or forecasting (3 years airline experience preferred).
• Rigorous and analytical thinking skills.
• Proficient in building and managing large MS Excel models, and capable of creating detailed PowerPoint presentations along with other planning system tools.
• Big four experience is a plus.
• Strong experience in financial planning and control.
• Advanced communication skills, with proficiency in English (verbal and written).