Korn Ferry Executive Search – US Hiring For FP&A Manager at Singapore Full Time

Duties & Responsibilities:

 Management Reporting

• Monthly revenue reporting and update of quarterly outlook for Corporate FP&A
• Oversees the preparation of monthly financial performance reports and monthly operating reviews for APAC Professional Search
• Reviews and analyzes monthly actual vs. budget / forecasted results and variances and provide analytical support to facilitate understanding the financial results of their businesses
• Identifies and develops solutions to improve business processes and reporting
• Ensures LOB consistency in reporting within APAC and global

 Annual Operating Plan / Revenue, Expense and Cashflow Forecasts

• Manages the Annual Operating Plan process, coordinating with the Corporate FP&A team
• Manages the monthly revenue and expense forecast process and provides input to the senior finance team members for monthly and quarterly new business
• Prepares the weekly Revenue and New Business forecast
• Provides variance analysis for actuals vs forecast

SG&A Analysis

• Closely monitor and report SG&A expense trends versus forecast and identify areas of cost reductions
• Makes recommendations to improve efficiency and profitability
• Identifies and addresses potential financial reporting issues or concerns

Individual Performance / KPIs reporting

• Oversees and manages individual consultants’ performance metrics, including explaining and clarifying metrics
• Review performance metric waiver requests
• Oversees KPI reporting for the Business Unit and Markets Leaders

 FP&A Centre Of Expertise

• Identify efficiency improvements in APAC offices’ management reporting
• Support APAC finance business leaders in their management reporting needs

 Support Operations

• Supports PS APAC in driving and managing the business

 Others

• Builds relationships with Business and Financial regional and global colleagues, encouraging collaboration while driving to meet key deadlines using established processes/controls, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned
• Provides analysis support for regional meetings / Enterprise projects
• Partner with IT and Corporate Financial Application team to support the SAP & reporting tools implementation / efficiency projects
• Other Regional Finance projects, as needs arise

Ideal candidate:

• CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Minimum 10 years of working experience, with at least 3 years experience in one of the Big Four accounting firms, followed by a FP&A position with a MNC.
• Good grasp of statutory, legal, accounting and taxation requirements
• Able to explain financial perspectives and directions clearly and meaningfully.
• Strong analytical skills and an inquiring mind
• Good people management and interaction skills with the ability to interact with peers and senior finance and business managers
• Able to apply good business sense in assessing projects and determine management information requirements
• Proactive and is keen to learn the business.
• Creative thinking
• A strong working knowledge of EXCEL is essential. Preference will be given to those who has worked with business intelligence and data mining tools
• Knowledge of SAP is advantageous