Senior Specialist - Commercial Finance (6-month Contract)

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting company, Boston Consulting Group, is seeking a SEA Commercial Lead in Kuala Lumpur. This key role involves driving project management, commercial negotiations, and financial reporting within a dynamic team. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, and an accounting background, contributing to the firm's efforts in achieving substantial commercial growth.

Qualifications

• Skilled on Excel (macro, dashboard) and Tableau.
• Ability to analyze large data and summarize for decision-making.
• Positive, self-motivated, and adaptable to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support project performance monitoring and invoice collection activities.
• Manage contracts database and support financial audits.
• Assist in month-end closing activities and risk identification.

Skills

Excel

Tableau

Analytical tools

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Education

Accounting degree

Tools

Business Objects

Oracle

Hyperion

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

The role is with job scope and exposure for the SEA system in which comprises of six offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Manila.

The Finance team has specialized team to deal with Accounting & Controlling, Compliance & Audit, Payroll & Mobility and Commercial & Planning.

The SEA Commercial Lead role is part of the Commercial & Planning team. This team provides support to the front-end business. The team is responsible to support the business on commercial negotiation, project management, reporting and analysis.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

Support Case Leadership to understand their project performance, monitor the cost to complete and identify risk issues

• Review WIP balances and managing the required weekly absorptions, tracking partners’ time billing, tracking staffing investment
• Reviewing and tracking VBP project activities
• Assisting in reporting to CPC/CAT on case performance and discounts calculation
• Invoicing and debt collection activities
• Support Staffing team’s requests for case extension, OTIP, CPC approved budget and leading weekly meeting with them to discuss the case essentials
• RFP compilation, coordination and submission activities
• Management and administration of the Contracts database (CCM)
• Monitoring and tracking of proposal code under new DSO policy
• Monthly tracking and reporting of OTIP actual spend, Campaign and Warchest investment spend, pricing leakage, senior advisors’ activities etc
• Management of costs chargeback CCI, Translator, etc
• Support in year-end revenue credit activities
• Support in month-end and year-end closing activities for WIP and AR provisions, sales development accruals, variance flux analysis on revenue, AR, and WIP, Theocap calculation and adjustments etc
• Support the accounting team in year-end statutory audits and requests from external auditors
• Support the Manager in leading new initiatives to ensure the Commercial operations continue to evolve to address the changing in the business needs

What You'll Bring

• Skilled on excel (able to do macro, dashboard), tableau and other analytical tools.
• Ability to create complex workbook, able to sift through large data and come up with summarized analysis that facilitates decision-making.
• Attitude needs to be very positive, self-motivated, able to deal with ambiguity and has the desire to go deeper to analyse. Self-driven, acts upon needs rather than upon requests
• Able to multi-task in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, deadline driven service-oriented environment and produce accurate results.
• Flexibility to work in an environment that has short-term shifts in priorities to meet a diverse customer base
• Strong organizational and time management skills and ability to set priorities
• Be a team player and yet able to work independently, with demonstrated ability to be flexible, responsive, pro-active and willing to take initiative, seek continuous improvement
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with all levels of staff
• Consistently handle situations with tact and patience and able to work well under pressure
• Proficiency to work with systems and eagerness to learn more (i.e. Excel, Business Objects, Time & Billing, Oracle, Hyperion)
• Accounting degree is desirable, however, application of mind to deal with commercial nature of business will be deciding factor

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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