Manager, Finance Business Partnering

Nanyang Technological University Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Singapore is seeking a Manager, Finance Business Partnering. In this role, you will align financial activities with the unit's strategy and provide critical financial insights to senior management. You should have a Bachelor's in Finance or Accountancy and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. The position offers a full-time contract and the opportunity to engage with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of financial principles and governance.
• Ability to provide financial insights and strategic advice.

Responsibilities

• Align financial activities with School's strategy and priorities.
• Conduct decision-support analyses for accurate financial reporting.
• Drive end-to-end financial planning and variance analyses.
• Recommend solutions to enhance operational processes.
• Provide financial expertise to protect assets and ensure compliance.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support audit reviews and remedial actions.

Skills

Financial planning

Budget monitoring

Decision-support analyses

Financial compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accountancy

CPA preferred

Job description

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The Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays an instrumental role in establishing finance business partnership with stakeholders in University’s unit or group of University’s units. The partnership is vital to enable and ensure effective finance planning, reporting and operations in alignment with University’s policies and guidelines.

This role is responsible for planning and executing the implementation of finance initiatives and targets to help achieve the goals of the University’s unit. It includes financial planning, budget monitoring and reporting, ensuring governance and compliance and coordinating operational activities related to specific objectives of the University’s unit.

The role has a primary reporting line into the Office of Finance and a secondary reporting line into the University’s unit.

Responsibilities

• Understands School’s strategy, priorities and aligns the financial activities to enable School to enable School to achieve the priorities. Provides relevant financial insights that value-add to the overall School performance. Performs pro-active partnering role and acts as a trusted financial advisor to the senior management in the School to resolve strategic and operational changes.
• Conducts decision-support analyses that provides real-time and accurate financial information (endowment report, expenditure report, budget utilization report) and draws insights from such analyses to make recommendations to the School Management, as well as relevant finance stakeholders (e.g. finance partner @ college or finance leadership team).
• Drives effective end-to-end financial and/or budget planning and variance analyses and monitors external changes that would have impact on School financial position, supports any change initiatives or project / process improvements that will improve the depth and efficiency of forecasting, budgeting, monitoring and reporting of financial performance of the School.
• Recommends ideas and solutions with the aim of enhancing operational processes within the School by incorporating finance expertise (such as risks exposure) and best practices; Drives continuous improvements and identifies key areas of potential cost savings in the School.
• Provides required financial expertise and advisory to stakeholders (e.g. faculty, principal investigators, managers) so as to protect assets and ensures compliance with existing policies and regulation. Uses organizational acumen and knowledge of School to advise finance office holders on implications to financial reporting, statutory and regulatory reporting.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders.
• Supports all audit reviews and execute any audit remedial actions.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accountancy
• CPA preferred
• Candidate should have a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
  
  
  

Hiring Institution: NTU

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Higher Education

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