MANAGER, FINANCE

Qualfon Philippines, Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualfon Philippines, Inc. is seeking a Finance Manager to serve as the senior finance partner to CES regional leaders. The role drives EBIT, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews across multiple sites and programs, coordinating with Operations Analysts and cross-functional teams.

The position leads planning, scenario analysis, and risk mitigation, ensuring accurate financial impact and accountability. Strong BI, automation, and executive communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field.
• Typically 7–10 years of progressive finance, FP&A, or operational finance experience with leadership.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-client or multi-site P&L and ability to explain performance from revenue to EBIT.
• Strong planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, and executive communication capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the regional financial narrative through EBIT including actuals, forecast, budget, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Lead financial performance reviews with regional, site, and program leaders focusing on drivers and decisions.
• Translate operating performance into financial outcomes across revenue, labor, costs, gross margin, and EBIT.
• Maintain a balanced portfolio view and prioritize finance support by revenue, complexity, margin risk, and strategic importance.
• Lead the regional plan, rolling forecast, long-range outlook, and scenario analysis with operating leaders.
• Challenge assumptions using drivers, historical performance, contractual terms, inflation, FX, and site costs.
• Partner with Commercial, Pricing, and Operations on renewals and margin improvements.
• Coach and review the work of Operations Analysts; ensure backups for critical programs and cycles.
• Sponsor standardized reporting and partner with Automation to prioritize use cases and measure value.
• Promote self-service insights and maintain data integrity and governance.

Skills

Advanced spreadsheet

Business intelligence

Automation analytics

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field

CPA/CMA preferred

Job description

OVERVIEW

The Finance Manager is the senior finance partner to CES regional and operational leadership.
The role converts financial and operational data into decisions that improve revenue quality, gross
margin, operating expense discipline, and EBIT. It leads the financial cadence for an assigned portfolio of
clients, programs, and sites, while directing the work of Operations Analysts and coordinating with
Workforce Management, Accounting, Pricing, Commercial, and other enabling teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Regional Financial Leadership

• Own the regional financial narrative through EBIT, including actuals, forecast, budget, risks,
  opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Lead financial performance reviews with regional, site, and program leaders, focusing discussion on business drivers and decisions.
• Translate operating performance into financial outcomes across revenue, labor, delivery costs,
  gross margin, operating expense, and EBIT.
• Maintain a balanced portfolio view and prioritize finance support according to revenue, complexity, margin risk, client commitments, and strategic importance

Planning, Forecasting, and Decision Support

• Lead the regional annual plan, rolling forecast, long-range outlook, and scenario analysis in
  partnership with operating leaders
• Challenge assumptions using operational drivers, historical performance, contractual economics,
  pipeline changes, inflation, foreign exchange, and site-level cost dynamics.
• Ensure risks and opportunities have quantified financial impact, accountable owners, specific
  actions, and expected realization dates.

Client and Commercial Finance

• Partner with Commercial, Pricing, and Operations on renewals, scope changes, minimum
  commitments, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Escalate structural issues in pricing, contractual terms, billing mechanics, or delivery design that
  could prevent achievement of financial commitments.

Team Leadership and Governance

• Set priorities, allocate portfolios, coach, and review the work of assigned Operations Analysts;
  maintain backup coverage for critical programs and billing cycles.
• Establish consistent standards for forecasts, variance explanations, management reporting, invoicing
  controls, data quality, and stakeholder follow-through.
• Coordinate with Workforce Management to ensure staffing, productivity, scheduling, and capacity
  inputs are timely and financially coherent.
• Partner with Accounting on close quality, accruals, revenue recognition inputs, cost classification,
  reconciliations, and resolution of recurring data issues.
• Maintain documented approvals for invoicing, journal-entry support, forecast changes, and
  financially significant assumptions.

AI, Automation, and Data Enablement

• Sponsor standardized, scalable reporting and analysis across the regional portfolio; eliminate low
  value manual work where controls can be preserved or improved.
• Partner with the Automation Analyst to prioritize use cases, define requirements, validate outputs,
  and measure adoption and realized value.
• Use AI-assisted analysis for anomaly detection, driver identification, scenario generation, and
  management narratives while retaining human review, source traceability, confidentiality, and
  financial control.
• Promote self-service insights for operational stakeholders and ensure that automated outputs lead
  to clear decisions and actions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field; advanced degree
  or CPA/CMA credential preferred.
• Typically 7–10 years of progressive finance, FP&A, commercial finance, or operational finance
  experience, including leadership of analysts or cross-functional workstreams.
• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-client or multi-site P&L and the ability to explain performance
  from revenue through EBIT.
• Strong planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, business case, and executive communication
  capabilities.
• Experience in BPO, contact center, outsourced services, or another labor-intensive service
  environment strongly preferred.
• Advanced spreadsheet and business-intelligence capability; practical experience improving finance
  processes through automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.