Senior Assistant Manager, Finance

**Senior Assistant Manager, Finance**

Reporting to the Branch Head, Financial Performance & Analysis (“FP&A”), this is a Senior Assistant Manager position, responsible for financial planning & analysis function.

**Responsibilities**:
Forecasting, Budgeting and Control
- Review and consolidation of the School’s budget, timely and complete budget submission and preparation of budget report / paper.
- Take ownership of quarterly P/L and Balance Sheet review, forecasting cycles and manage related communication with school stakeholders.
- Support the coordination of forecast and budget inputs from school stakeholders. Perform first level review of all inputs to ensure reasonableness and drive accuracy.
- Drive and communicate the annual budgeting process to ensure school stakeholders are informed of progress on planning and budgeting and has access to needed information and materials.
- Ensure related processes are comprehensively planned, simple and eliminate waste, wherever possible.
- Work with relevant stakeholders to develop annual operating budgets and evaluate short-term and long-term funding requirements. Perform first level review of all budget requests to ensure reasonableness.
- Review related fund virement and transfer requests from stakeholders and make recommendations to voteheads.
- Monitor budget to actual results and prepare insightful variance analyses of significant deviations to identify any financial risks and opportunities.
- Provide guidance and support to school stakeholders in budgetary control and expenditure management

Reporting, Analysis and Decision-Making Support
- Preparation of monthly management and quarterly reporting package and financial performance review report.
- Monthly review of income statement and balance sheet items (A/P, receivables, revenue, expenses, CAPEX) and other related financial activities for accuracy and coordinate necessary adjustments, where required.
- Insightful analysis to support short and long-term decision-making. Analysis of financial data and preparation of financial information for monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting (financial performance review report).
- Decision support to stakeholders - e.g. help in preparing financial models and business cases

Financial Risks/Strategic Plans
- Monitoring of financial risks via quarterly risk register and highlight to respective parties when alerted or discovery of pending risk.

Others
- Establishment, implementation and documentation of financial policies & procedures, with emphasis on internal controls.
- Implement and maintain adequate and effective internal controls (including balance sheet account reconciliations) related to self-financing programmes, research centers and endowed accounts.
- Identify opportunities to improve, standardize, simplify business processes and procedures to save cost.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accountancy, or equivalent qualification
- Experience with SAP HANA is a plus
- Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, SAP BI/BW and other Business Intelligence tools preferred
- Advance Microsoft skills (especially Excel, Word and powerpoint)
- Highly motivated, versatile team player, possessing excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on and comfortable working under tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently and has good interpersonal, English communication skills (listening, speaking, and specially writing skills)
- Positive and self-starter who has an organized, result-oriented mindset, be pro-active and empathic to different cultures
- Technically competent with up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards and practices and Income Tax Act provisions.

This is a 3 years contract appointment.

Hiring Institution: LKC

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