Finance Manager

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Client Delivery and Relationship Management
Act as a day-to-day point of contact for assigned clients, building trusted and professional relationships with client management and stakeholders.
Lead regular client meetings independently to discuss financial performance, reporting, analysis and business matters.
Prepare and present monthly reporting packs, clearly explaining financial results, variances and key business drivers to management and board-level stakeholders.
Respond to client requests and follow through on issues to ensure timely, accurate and commercially appropriate resolution.
Anticipate client needs, identify financial risks and opportunities, and escalate matters to senior team members where appropriate.
Take ownership of complex or ambiguous assignments, work through available information with limited guidance, and develop clear, accurate and supportable outcomes.
Work closely with Australia-based team members and clients across different time zones.
Financial Management and Reporting
Lead the month-end financial close process for assigned clients, including journals, reconciliations and financial reporting.
Review the work of finance analysts and supporting documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness and quality before client delivery.
Investigate financial anomalies and discrepancies, identify root causes and drive appropriate resolution.
Prepare management reports and financial analysis, ensuring financial information is presented clearly and accurately.
Assist with bookkeeping and transactional accounting activities where required.
Analysis, Planning and Business Partnering
Build and maintain budgets, forecasts and three-way financial models for assigned clients.
Perform ad hoc financial analysis using advanced Excel and Power Query, translating findings into clear and commercially relevant insights.
Partner with client management on financial and business decisions, including pricing, cost structures, program viability and resource allocation.
Identify trends, variances and key financial drivers and communicate their implications to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Build and maintain client reporting dashboards, including Power BI reports where appropriate.
Provide financial insights to support client decision-making, business planning and performance improvement.
AI-Assisted Delivery and Continuous Improvement
Use AI-assisted delivery tools, including Claude, as part of daily work for financial analysis, research, drafting, review and quality control.
Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and improve the efficiency, accuracy and scalability of financial processes.
Develop repeatable workflows, templates and internal tools that improve delivery quality and team productivity.
Explore AI-assisted development tools, such as Lovable, to support the creation of reporting solutions, client-facing applications and workflow improvements.
Streamline data processes to improve the quality, consistency and timeliness of financial reporting.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that increase Colfax's capacity to deliver additional client work.
Measures of Success
Assigned clients are retained and regard the role holder as a trusted and capable point of contact.
Client deliverables are completed accurately, on time and to the required standard, with minimal rework.
Client meetings are led independently, with senior team members involved by exception rather than by default.
Clients receive clear, commercially relevant financial reporting and analysis that supports decision-making.
Complex assignments are completed accurately and defensibly with limited guidance.
Financial issues and anomalies are identified, investigated and resolved through to root cause.
Demonstrable productivity, quality and efficiency improvements are achieved through AI-assisted tools, automation and process improvement.
The role holder progressively increases the team's capacity to take on additional client work.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Must have:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
7-10 years of experience in accounting, management accounting, financial management or financial analysis.
Fluent written and spoken English, with the confidence to independently lead client meetings and communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience working with clients or employers based in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom or a comparable Western market.
Strong understanding of Western business culture and professional communication standards, particularly in Australian and US business environments.
Advanced capability in management accounting, financial management, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and three-way financial modelling.
Advanced Excel skills, with strong hands-on experience using Power Query and Power BI for financial analysis and reporting.
Hands-on professional experience using AI-assisted tools such as Claude for analysis, research, drafting, review and quality control.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through complex or ambiguous financial issues independently.
A high degree of ownership, attention to detail and follow-through, with the ability to work autonomously across time zones and manage multiple priorities.
Nice to have:
Professional accounting qualification or progress toward one - CPA, CA, ACCA or Vietnamese equivalent.
Experience in client-facing financial services, accounting advisory, outsourced accounting or a similar environment.
Experience using cloud-based accounting systems such as Xero.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Lovable, to build internal tools, workflows, automations or reporting solutions.
Experience developing client-facing applications or technology-enabled reporting solutions.
Commercial mindset, with the ability to connect financial information to business performance and decision-making.
Curiosity and adaptability, with a genuine interest in using technology and AI to improve financial delivery.
Experience reviewing or supervising the work of other finance professionals.
Comfortable working autonomously across time zones.
WORK LOCATION: 159C De Tham, Cau Ong Lanh Ward, HCMC
WORKING HOURS: 7AM-4PM (Mon-Fri)