Finance Process Specialist

Singapore, Central, Singapore
- Department
- Group Finance Process Excellence
- Job posted on
- Jan 07, 2025
- Employment type
- Contract

**About Sembcorp Industries**
- Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) is a leading energy and urban solutions provider, led by its purpose to drive energy transition. Headquartered in Singapore, Sembcorp delivers sustainable solutions to support energy transition and urban development by leveraging it sector expertise and global track record.

**Key Roles and Responsibilities of this role**:

- Support in Finance system and closing processes improvement project to achieve quicker closing timeline, taking into consideration process inter-dependencies within S/4HANA system and its surrounding systems.
- Support in reviewing and identifying bottlenecks, manual processes and areas for improvement in the closing processes and activities.
- Conduct detailed analysis of the monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing process, including transactional postings in upstream systems (multiple partner systems) and their effect on downstream systems.
- Provide recommendation and consultative support in terms of system and data usage, process, reports and analytics improvement and automation.
- Support the formulation of strategic solutions to address underlying issues to streamline the closing process, which includes collaborating with cross-functional teams at Group and Market level to develop comprehensive solutions.
- Support the implementation of process improvements solution, ensuring smooth execution and mínimal disruption to ongoing operations.
- Work closely with Group and Market stakeholders to deploy solutions effectively.
- Support continuous monitoring and assess the effectiveness of implemented improvements in the closing process. Measure key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress and ensure desired outcome is achieved.
- Support in updating the Group's blueprint of Finance system, process and controls incorporating the changes throughout the project.
- Support in development of project documentation, requirements gathering and status reporting.
- Support in related training and change communications.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting (CPA or CA preferred), Information Systems, or related field.
- At least 6 years of working experience in SAP FICO and/or process improvement, preferably within a finance or accounting environment.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end Finance processes and systems integration within SAP.
- Experience with project management methodologies and finance transformation projects is a plus.
- Proven record of contribution to successful process improvement initiatives.

**Skills/competencies & Preferred Characteristics**
- Strong project and stakeholder management skill, good finance and accounting knowledge & business analytics skills.
- Able to engage stakeholders especially finance market users to understand their pain points and manual processes. Identify opportunities for automation and other solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Able to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Able to efficiently prioritize work and timely inform stakeholders on the progress.
- Strong work ethic with a positive, can-do attitude to perform data analysis and resolve complex problems.
- Meticulous coupled with a strong sense of urgency and responsibility.
- Resourceful and able to search for relevant information independently.
- Strong in MS Excel, MS Word, Visio and PowerPoint skills (able to develop business case, financial analysis and prepare presentation information).
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and oral communication skills in English and Chinese language.
- Positive, proactive and self-motivated personality.
- Willing to travel when the need arises.