Head of Finance (Planning and Analysis)

Angus Knight Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company operating across Australia and internationally in the Employment, Community, and Education sectors, is seeking a Head of FP&A. The successful candidate will be responsible for financial planning and analysis, coordinating reports across multiple countries, and leveraging advanced skills in financial modelling and data management. This role requires a strong understanding of accounting principles and experience in managing substantial financial data, ensuring operational metrics drive strategy and decision-making.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience.
• Proven working experience as a FP&A manager.
• Professional qualification held, CA/CPA.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate monthly review process across seven countries for financial results.
• Prepare monthly management reporting for the Executive Team and Board.
• Drive performance uplift in management reporting at a Country level.

Skills

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Analytical reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Data management

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or relevant discipline

MBA

CPA or CA

Tools

Power BI

Power Pivot

Job description

PURPOSE

Angus Knight Group operates across Australia and internationally in the Employment, Community and Education sectors, focusing on empowering people in their communities.

Working closely with the Group CFO, Corporate Development Team, and Country Heads of Finance to coordinate and prepare Group Board level reporting, financial analysis and support planning cycles helping to drive financial success and operational performance of the global business.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal: CEO, CFO, Country Heads of Finance, Country Leaders and Executive Team, Corporate Development Team, Group Finance Manager, IT

External: BI/Reporting Tool software provider, external consultants

KEY POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

The Head of FP&A key responsibilities will be:

· Coordination of monthly review process across seven countries to ensure financial results are understood and variances to budget / forecast well explained.

· Prepare monthly management reporting for the Executive Team and Board that explains operational performance and any deviation to plan.

· Present Group P&L to CEO each month ensuring business insights are understood and explained.

· Drive performance uplift in monthly management reporting at a Country level, ensuring that financial performance is explained through operational metrics ensuring variances are well understood.

· Consolidate operational metrics on a weekly basis to track progress against plan within the month. Create and manage metrics dashboards through Power Bi or other software.

· Support all other metrics reporting such as headcount / FTE.

· Work with each of the Heads of Finance to fully understand their revenue modelling, ensuring quality checks are in place and the model delivers accurate revenue forecast and budgets.

· Manage the planning cycle including annual budget and quarterly forecast processes ensuring transparency throughout the presentations and quality information presented.

· Manage 3-way budget / forecasting model to ensure balance sheet and cashflow models are accurate and understood.

· Work closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan.

· Assist in the management of the BI/Reporting tool ensuring its accuracy and working closely with the software provider to maintain and make improvements to the tool when necessary.

· Ensure all finance users are trained on the BI tool and utilize it effectively for their monthly reporting.

· Support projects such as refinancing process for the Group by preparing high quality financial reporting packs that are readily understood by external stakeholders.

· Support acquisitions through adding new countries, legal entities & users to the BI tool.

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATIONAL PROFILE

· A relevant tertiary qualification in bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or relevant discipline. MBA desirable. CPA or CA is a plus.

SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES

· Ability to translate financial results into business insights ensuring the “story” is well explained.

· Strong stakeholder engagement experience.

· Experience in financial modelling, forecasting and analytical reporting to support decision making.

· Demonstrated ability to proactively identify drivers in financial risks and recommend actions to mitigate.

· Extensive experience in preparing, monitoring and reporting of annual budgets and forecasts.

· Advanced skills and experience using budgeting and planning tools and Power Bi and / Power Pivot.

· Sound knowledge of accounting principles and procedures to support balance sheet and cashflow modelling.

· Experience in managing large quantities of data and creating insights and report.

· Excellent planning and time management skills.

· Display our core values and be supportive, empathetic, non-judgemental, maintain confidentiality and be discreet in all interactions with colleagues.

KNOWLEDGE

· Professional qualification held, CA/CPA

· Proven working experience as a FP&A manager

· 10+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience

· Advanced degree in accounting