Finance Specialist - Based in Malaysia

• Accurate financial reporting and analysis.
• Reliable financial data management.
• Effective support for business partners and projects.

• Assist FP&A: Work closely with FP&A teams to prepare budgets, forecasts, and monthly financial reports.
• Variance Analysis: Analyze actual vs budget/forecast data to identify trends, variances, and key drivers for revenue and costs.
• Support Reporting Cycles: Help automate and streamline reporting processes to ensure timely and accurate delivery of financial reports.

• Data Validation: Ensure financial data is accurate, complete, and reconciled across systems (ERP, Workday Adaptive Planning).
• Collaboration with Data Teams: Work alongside the data analyst, data engineer, and data scientist to validate data inputs and outputs for reporting accuracy.
• Support Finance Dashboards: Help update and maintain dashboards for key financial KPIs (e.g., opex tracking, revenue performance).

• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Support Finance Business Partners with data and analysis to aid decision-making (e.g., cost reduction opportunities, revenue growth analysis).
• Insights Delivery: Provide clear and concise insights on financial performance for business stakeholders

• Support Transformation Projects: Contribute to finance transformation implementations (e.g., AI-driven process enhancements, new data integrations).
• Process Improvements: Identify inefficiencies in current financial processes and propose solutions to improve speed and accuracy.
• Documentation: Document financial processes, key assumptions, and workflows for future reference.

• Financial Controls: Support the implementation of financial controls to ensure data governance, accuracy, and adherence to policies.
• Audit Support: Assist in providing financial data and analysis for audits and other compliance reviews.

• University degree, major in Accounting or Finance
• Relevant experience in FP&A, process improvement
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a degree of ambiguity
• Good interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills
• Effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong MS Office tools knowledge, Excel proficiency, SAP, Workday Adaptive Planning is considered a plus
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken
• Positive, proactive and self-motivated personality

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