Provide leadership, direction and coordination of activities within the team, including driving change and ensuring the accuracy of various reports on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
Functional Responsibilities
- Ensure that financial information, analysis and reporting is accurate, timely, reliable and relevant, to assist the Division/Group/Project in effectively performing their responsibilities.
- Manage and support budgeting and reforecasting processes of the Division/Group/Project while challenging submissions and identifying synergies and ensuring efficient and accurate delivery.
- Communicate effectively and accessibly key forecast/plan assumption changes to the team and assess the impact of these changes to the various reports and submissions.
- Provide scenario modelling and stress testing of financial assumptions to understand the range of impact these options bring.
- Lead and support continuous improvement of our forecasting and reporting processes.
- Lead and direct project management tasks assigned from time to time. Ensure on-time submission of team deliverables through proper planning and organizing.
- Help increase organizational knowledge of budgeting principles.
Process and Service Management
- Manage the day-to-day delivery of the team's services in order to meet the specific and changing needs of the Division and the Group.
- Provide valuable contributions for the resolution of issues and monitor required actions.
- Manage capacity and resource allocation for processes and services to ensure SLAs are met in terms of timeliness and quality, which includes monitoring and reporting of SLAs and KPIs on a regular basis.
- Review or perform as needed highly complex and critical tasks.
- Maintain product, system and process knowledge by ensuring process documentation is updated.
- Support the documentation of process change requirements.
- Ensure compliance with QBE policies, procedures and relevant legislations.
- Contribute to the creation, update and execution of Business Continuity Plan.
Stakeholder Management
- Establish and maintain a good working relationship with stakeholders to maximize opportunities, minimize expenses and achieve operational and service targets.
- Provide timely, relevant and regular updates to stakeholders on the status of deliverables and issues as they arise.
Process Improvement
- Lead, assist or provide recommendations on business improvement plans and strategies.
- Responsible for driving process optimization and delivering efficiency targets.
- Responsible for identifying and implementing process changes.
People Management
- Provide visible management and support by delivering effective and timely communication to the team.
- Motivate, develop and provide technical expertise to meet the required standards of performance and service delivery.
- Support personal and professional development of team by evaluating their performance against agreed objectives with appropriate developmental plans.
- Uphold a strong culture of accountability and high performance whilst maintaining employee motivation and a positive working environment.
- Responsible for hiring open positions within the team.
- Manage the team’s capacity and build a robust succession plan.
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Required Experience
- 7 years relevant experience, 2 years people management.
Required Licenses/Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant or similar.
Preferred Competencies/Skills
- High proficiency in MS Tools; strong fluency with MS Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with data query/data management tools.
- Rigorous analytical and quantitative skills including experience with financial modeling and analysis.
- Strong knowledge of accounting and financial concepts.
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable excellent and effective presentation, verbal and written communication at all levels within the organization; particularly in providing onshore support as a FP&A Business Partner.
- Strong personality and keen attention to detail.
- Good problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively “outside the box.”
- High level of initiative and results orientation.
- Agile and with strong process excellence and change management skills.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines when necessary.
- Strong people management skills.
- Project Management Skills.
Preferred Education Specifics
- Accountancy, Management Accounting, or Financial Management preferred.
Preferred Experience
- Preference for related background in strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting process, monthly analyses and reports, and building complex financial models.
- Experienced in managing and supporting Budget and Reforecasting submissions.
- Experienced in the preparation of ad hoc financial projections and analysis.
- Experienced in building and updating profitability, cash flow models and drawdown funding which are all necessary in supporting Project Finance.
- Ability to carry out special financial planning and analysis projects of varying nature and complexity.
- Experienced in managing a highly performing team.
- Experienced working on a global team, preferably in a Shared Services background and/or Insurance and other multinational companies.
- Experience in leading and supporting continuous improvement of dynamic forecasting and reporting processes.
Preferred Licenses/Certifications
- Certified Public Accountant, or Certified Management Accountant, or similar.
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