Finance Systems & Control Manager - Hybrid Role

Manulife; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 167,400 - 312,480; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Financial Corporation is seeking a Financial Systems and Control Manager to support product setup, accounting model development, ledger setup, data testing, and downstream system impact assessment for International HNW and related data activities.

The role requires a finance professional with strong analytical ability, accounting understanding, and data orientation to work with Product, Admin System, Finance Operations, Commissions, New business Operations, Actuarial, Technology and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Professional accounting qualification or progress toward CPA / equivalent qualification is preferred.
• Minimum of 6+ years relevant experience in finance, insurance accounting, product implementation, data management, financial systems, reporting operations or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Product setup and accounting model support
• Review product features, requirements and specifications, and consult with product and admin system teams to understand product features.
• Assess commonality with existing products and assess policy administration system platform, including system architecture and transaction codes in relation to accounting.
• Support the design and development of accounting models for new products.
• Review accounting models with stakeholders in other areas, including Finance Operations and Commissions, and support sign‑off on accounting models.
• Ledger, inventory and downstream system setup
• Support general ledger setup, including opening new accounting units and updating the Product Master listing.
• Support inventory system setup and configuration for new products.
• Assess downstream system impacts, including Commissions, Accounting Data Hub and existing file extracts.
• Participate in product launch, product team, admin system team and review meetings as needed.
• Testing and implementation support
• Develop and execute testing strategy and duration for admin system files, extract files, commissions, inventory system and general ledger posting.
• Process admin system GL and support negative testing.
• Process GL and transaction extracts in the product testing database and generate reconciliation of actual accounting against target accounting; investigate discrepancies and report defects where identified.
• Load/process admin inventory monthly files to the Inventory system, and report loading issues to the appropriate party.
• Run reports from testing; review and investigate detected defects
• Review commission system GL extracts manually and ensure they correspond with the accounting model and that commission expenses are reasonable based on premiums.
• Review fund admin system accounting output from daily cycle testing against the GL admin system accounting file and report issues identified.
• Support sign‑offs for accounting model, testing strategy, go‑live and warranty; perform additional rounds of testing as needed to resolve defects.
• Production support, audit and data requests
• Gather policy‑level data from the subledger to support General Ledger balances.
• Coordinate with the admin Business Support Production team to obtain policyholder‑related data based on auditor or regulator requests.
• Provide information to the International HNW Financial Reporting team and respond to auditor/regulator inquiries as needed.
• Train business users on data extraction from the subledger for use in variance investigations.
• Assist with identifying issues and recommending solutions to resolve admin system data issues.
• Open or submit tickets to the admin Business Support Production team to report defects.
• Support admin system testing and recommend sign‑off of fixes by reviewing testing results related to inventory production issue fixes.
• Coordinate and provide scripts or screenshots to internal and external auditors.
• Support market conduct, surveys, compliance support and ad hoc data requests.
• Stakeholder management and leadership
• Work closely with Product & Data Management, Accounting & Reporting, Admin System, Product, Policy, Operations, Controls, Expense, Finance and Investment stakeholders.
• Maintain effective collaboration with US‑based system support teams where applicable.
• Support GHNW projects, Treasury activities under direction of the portfolio lead

Skills

Analytical skills

Accounting concepts

Attention to detail

Documentation & communication

Insurance data familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field

Professional accounting qualification or progress toward CPA / equivalent qualification

Minimum 6+ years relevant experience in finance, insurance accounting, product implementation, data management, financial systems, reporting operations or related roles

Job description

Manulife Financial Corporation is seeking a Financial Systems and Control Manager to support product setup, accounting model development, ledger setup, data testing, and downstream system impact assessment for International HNW and related data activities.

The role requires a finance professional with strong analytical ability, accounting understanding, and data orientation to work with Product, Admin System, Finance Operations, Commissions, New business Operations, Actuarial, Technology and