Senior Executive/Assistant Manager, Finance & Accounts

Allianz Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Allianz Malaysia is seeking a finance professional to drive planning and forecasting, prepare management expense budgets, and analyze financial results and key operational metrics across the business.

The role requires at least 5 years of relevant experience, ACCA/CPA, and strong communication, with familiarity of IFRS 17 expense analysis and collaboration with actuarial teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy or equivalent
• Professional qualifications (ACCA/CPA) or equivalent
• At least 5 years' relevant experience, preferably with audit
• Experience in the insurance industry is advantageous
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Meticulous with strong analytical and commercial acumen
• Familiar with ChatGPT for task simplification

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial planning process, including annual budgeting and monthly forecasting
• Review assumptions for planning projections and business cases
• Ensure accuracy of monthly management reports and board materials
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and propose corrective actions
• Analyze business drivers to validate forecasts and support data-driven decisions
• Implement metrics to track performance against forecasts and align with strategy
• Collaborate with actuarial teams on expense analysis and IFRS 17 supported analyses
• Support finance initiatives including benchmarking and IT reporting for Allianz Group

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

ChatGPT familiarity

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy

ACCA/CPA or equivalent

Tools

Excel

IFRS 17

Job description

Job Summary

You will be responsible for driving financial planning and forecasting processes, preparing management expense budgets, and analyzing and evaluating financial results and key operational metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the financial planning process, including annual budgeting and monthly forecasting.
• Review the reasonableness of the underlying assumptions used for planning projections and business cases.
• Ensure the accuracy of monthly management reports and presentation materials for senior management, regional offices, the Board, and Board Committees.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance against budgets, highlight significant deviations, and recommend corrective actions to improve performance.
• Understand and analyze key business drivers to validate forecasts and support business functions in making data-driven decisions and strategies.
• Implement appropriate metrics to monitor performance against forecasts and plans, ensuring alignment with corporate strategies and targets.
• Perform regular expense analysis and collaborate with the Actuarial team to update expense methodologies, including support for IFRS 17 attributable expense analysis.
• Support Finance initiatives, including benchmarking studies, IT reporting support, and other initiatives rolled out by Allianz Group.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, Professional Qualifications (ACCA, CPA, etc.), or equivalent professional qualifications.
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience, preferably with an audit background.
• Experience in the insurance industry is an added advantage.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage internal stakeholders and work effectively across functions.
• Meticulous, with strong analytical skills and sound commercial acumen.
• Positive working attitude, committed and driven to meet deadlines and targets.
• Familiar with the use of ChatGPT for tasks simplification

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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