Expense Performance Strategy Lead

AXA Hong Kong and Macau; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA Hong Kong and Macau is a leading insurer in Hong Kong, offering Life, Health and General Insurance solutions. The role focuses on managing and analysing management expenses, preparing budgets, and driving cost-saving initiatives while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and governance requirements across the organisation.

The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders, manage data and financial systems, and contribute to performance reporting enhancements within AXA’s

Qualifications

• Experience bridging management expense and other financial KPIs including earnings.

Responsibilities

• Align management expense growth with revenue growth and business momentum.
• Lead the preparation of annual expense budget and forecasts across teams; identify gaps to target and propose actions.
• Analyse expense impact on financial KPIs (e.g., earnings, combined ratio) and optimise expense categories.
• Support governance processes for expense management and performance reporting.
• Collaborate to drive one source of truth in expense management and automate manual tasks.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Effective communicator

Leadership

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

Job description

AXA Hong Kong and Macau is a leading insurer in Hong Kong, offering Life, Health and General Insurance solutions. The role focuses on managing and analysing management expenses, preparing budgets, and driving cost-saving initiatives while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and governance requirements across the organisation.

The candidate will collaborate with senior stakeholders, manage data and financial systems, and contribute to performance reporting enhancements within AXA’s