Financial Business Partner Manager

1/ Business Partnering
- Understand how the business runs through frequent formal and informal update with stakeholders
- Get involved in commercial and strategic decision making through business analysis
- Act as a trusted finance adviser and facilitator of productive business discussions, including but not limited to financial process improvement, business case building, etc.
- Embed financial thinking in partners' daily process
- Facilitate business users to perform regular expense and budget review
- Provide advices to Head of Finance and Chief Financial Officer regarding business requirements and implementing flexible budget control
- Update management with any alarming expense KPIs and recommend remediation
-Facilitate business users to deliver strategic projects by providing advices on potential challenges and best practices
2/ Business Analysis and Budget Monitoring
- Provide regular and ad hoc business analysis on company performance in accordance with requirements from management
- Analyse budget from different perspectives and provide advices to Management for implementation of budget to be in line with company's strategy
- Analyse expenses to provide understanding of the cost impact of key elements in the business, make recommendations to Management the solution when appropriate.
- Provide regular and ad-hoc expense reports including variance analysis related to business partner functions, highlighting areas of concerns/attention and follow up with relevant departments for proper actions
- Monitor and report expense overruns including recommended actions to management
- Regular monitoring of significant expenses such as advertising, contest, rental, headcount and staff cost, etc. - - Coordinate with budget holders and relevant personnel to stay on top of these key items
- Monitor the expense within the loading allowance.
- Provide expense forecasts and scenario analysis as required by Management
3/ Initiatives Facilitation
- FAM project: review and recommend new initiative for FAM, especially with expense monitoring and spending efficiency areas.
- Company projects: support new initiatives from various departments and company's key projects, proactively provide feed back before, during, and after projects
- Assist business users in completing ACRs. Provide advices on potential challenges from Regional Head Office. - - Ensure alignment with strategic initiatives and coordinate with relevant departments at PVA and PCA for approval
- Monitor ACR implementation and post implementation for report on impact/lesson learnt for future projects