Broad Responsibility Highlights:
The position will play a key role at the Parent Company level, responsible for consolidating financial plans across subsidiaries and delivering corporate finance analysis to support strategic decision-making. The role requires strong financial modeling skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
WHAT IS THE JOB LIKE
1. Group Financial Planning & Consolidation (Parent-Level Focus)
- Consolidation Management: Lead the consolidation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial plans and forecasts from multiple subsidiaries, ensuring data integrity and adherence to corporate reporting guidelines.
- Forecast Modeling: Aggregate subsidiary inputs to build the Group's consolidated forecast, including the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.
- Variance Analysis: Analyze consolidated results against budgets, forecasts, and prior year performance. Prepare executive summaries highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities at both the subsidiary and consolidated levels.
- Reporting Cadence: Manage the corporate reporting calendar, coordinating deadlines with subsidiary finance teams to ensure timely delivery of the Parent company's financial outlook.
2. Corporate Finance Analysis & Decision Support
- Cross-Functional Liaison: Act as the key finance interface for various corporate departments (e.g., Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations, Strategy, HR). Translate financial data into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
- Capital Allocation & ROI Analysis: Support in evaluating corporate initiatives, including capital expenditure requests, M&As, and investment in new business ventures. Calculations for free cash flows, WACC, and impairment testing
- Capital Structure & Dividend Analysis: Analyze, monitor, and perform sensitivity analyses on parent and group-level leverage ratios, debt covenant headroom, and dividend capacity to support capital allocation decisions and financing strategies.
- Ad-Hoc Modeling: Develop/maintain financial models to support corporate strategic projects, including what-if scenarios, and long-range strategic planning (LRP).
WHO ARE YOU
- Education, License, and Experience
- Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
- Professional License as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, equity research, equity fund management, or equity valuation-related transaction services.
Technical & Soft Skills
- Systems Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Excel (XNPV, XIRR, index-match, scenario modeling). Experience with EPM/CPM tools (e.g. Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle) is highly preferred.
- IFRS and Financial Statement Proficiency: Strong knowledge of IFRS reporting requirements is a must. Requires deep understanding of the interrelationships between the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statement in a consolidated environment. 3-statement modelling proficiency is highly preferred.
- Analytical Rigor: Ability to dissect large sets of complex data, identify trends, and summarize findings concisely for senior management.
- Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; must be comfortable liaising with subsidiary finance teams, department heads, and C-level executives.
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight reporting deadlines.
- Passionate about continuous learning and a collaborative team player
