Position Objective:

• Develop and implements the company's strategic projects and initiatives, conducts research and data analysis to inform business decisions, and aligns department goals with the overall strategy.
• Hold overall responsibility over FP&A activities to facilitate management decision making, performance management.
• Act as a strategic finance partner and advisor to business stakeholders and senior management to drive budgeting, monitoring and strategic initiatives.
• Overall team management and setting KPIs for team and drive the team to meet targets (e.g. projects deliveries, budgeting accuracy and variance, cost optimizations) that maintain AIA’s sound financial health and support the business strategy.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end management of cross-functional project implementations—both existing and new—ensuring timely execution in alignment with organizational goals.
• Lead the evaluation of business cases from financial and non-financial perspectives and oversee budget monitoring.
• Coordinate with Exco. members and functional leaders to manage the preparation and consolidation of monthly and quarterly financial and business review presentations.
• Manage the financial planning and forecasting processes, including the development of the annual strategic plan and the establishment of key performance indicator (KPI) targets.
• Proactively drive continuous improvements in efficiency in budget monitoring and management reporting.
• Act as a business partner with cost center owners, to optimize strategic spending (expense management) and improve operational efficiency and profitability.
• Analyze the market share data and sharing the status quo of market position.
• Identify opportunities to drive data-driven decision making and the use of advanced analytics, leveraging business intelligence tools to derive insights from integrated data for financial planning and management decisions (e.g. expense management and revenue growth opportunities etc)
• Engage in business development initiatives, Group-led and LBU business initiatives to adopt flexibility in adapting to new technologies including automation, driving change and transformation, and effectively leading teams in adopting emerging technologies.
• Foster team development to strengthen capabilities and drive operational efficiency.

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experiences in financial management, managerial roles in management reporting, budgeting, strategic planning, financial analysis and financial reporting.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting/finance or ACCA/CIMA Holder.
• Good understanding of financial reporting concepts, actuarial concepts and insurance products.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage deep understanding of business objectives and issues to provide insightful analysis to aid management decision making and problem solving.
• Solid demonstrated communication skills/stakeholders engagement and in-depth knowledge of expense management, analytics and problem solving abilities.
• Ability to multi-task and balance multiple requests working in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Effective people management and coaching skills.