Finance Business Analyst

Role: Senior Finance Business Analyst - Finance Reporting Control Framework (FRCF) 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Singapore

Position type: Full time, fixed term contract

Following on from work undertaken within the Finance and Actuarial teams, the FRCF programme has been initiated to assess the current state of the reporting control framework, high risk processes and to uncover specific control weaknesses or gaps.

The Senior Finance Analyst will work on the FRC Programme working closely across both the Singapore and London office to document the current state processes as well as identifying the risks and controls currently in place across Underwriting, Claims and Finance Operations (including Reporting). This role will also capture any gaps in process that require remediation. Documentation will cover all processes end to end and within other functional areas such as; Underwriting, Claims and Financial Operations (including reporting).

The Senior Finance Analyst will play a key role in ensuring the programme meets the required objectives and there will be a level of flexibility to identify what work is undertaken.

The Senior Finance Analyst will focus on local operations in the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore and Labuan and will require significant management of stakeholder expectations. A key part of this role will be working within processes specific to MS AAP’s operations to ensure compliance with FRCF requirements.

About The Job

Whilst the Key deliverables will be the current state assessments and subsequent remediation work and target state design, activities of the role will also include:

- Elicit, analyse, and validate the needs of business stakeholders, customers or end users
- Document business requirements (both functional and non-functional) to ensure that the full business and IT impact has been thought through
- Ability to formulate current and end state process maps utilising specific tools designed for that capability
- Design and optimise business processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costs
- Examine complex data to draw conclusions and develop actionable recommendations
- Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and determine solutions using understanding of business and functional requirements
- Identify and evaluate possible options to meet user requirements, think about what the impact will be and present findings to stakeholders to support decision making
- Elicit and document user acceptance testing, and validation processes to ensure the solution meets the requirements
- Act as a key point of contact between business stakeholders; Underwriting, Claims, Finance Operations, Architecture, Data and IT teams, and other relevant parties
- Update process and procedure documentation in line with changes implemented
- Analyse processes and data flows through effective engagement with the business, Architecture, Data and IT
- Help bridge the gap between business needs and technical and/or system solutions, ensuring optimal and efficient operation of businesses

You’re going to enjoy this job if you:

- Are an analytical thinker
- Have the ability to problem solve
- Are detail oriented
- Are a critical thinker
- Are a good communicator
- Have the ability to successfully negotiate
- Good Team Player
- Effective stakeholder management

What you’ll need:
For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include:

- Qualified accountant or actuarial qualification, with experience working in Finance or Insurance project delivery
- Audit experience beneficial but not essential
- Good experience working as a business analyst within financial services preferably insurance but not necessary, ideally across finance, actuarial, system and data or regulatory driven programmes.
- Experience in end to end process documentation identifying risks and controls.
- Excellent stakeholder management capabilities and the ability to influence challenging stakeholders up to executive level.
- Strong understanding of business processes and organisational structures.
- Understanding of working in change delivery, milestone and deliverables based programmes