Finance Lead

**In this position you will....
Be lead Malaysia and HQ Malaysia Finance function, work closely with Malaysia and HQ Malaysia business partners, group finance and country finance teams to proactively guide and manage the financial management of Device Protection businesses. You will be expected to provide insightful information by analyzing and providing commentary to the management team.

**You will be responsible for **
- Work closely with HQ Finance, Business Development, Technology and Product in coordinating the full cycle of business planning and analysis, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and periodic management reporting to the HQ Finance and Malaysia business partners.
- Manage shared service financial services team on daily accounting recording.
- Manage Malaysia business treasury, taxation and external audit.
- Drive the monthly and quarterly management reporting/forecasting ensuring a high degree of quality, timeliness, and accuracy, as well as provide insightful analysis of results vs. budget and forecasted expectations to management.
- Provide financial direction support and assist in the coordination on technology and digital transformation strategies/ initiatives.
- Understand key competitive drivers and geographic markets and keep abreast of key, relevant industry trends and articulate potential impact on financial performance.
- Provide strong business partnering and drive effective communication with key stakeholders before, during and after each reporting milestone.
- Work closely with the Finance Transformation team on project implementations.
- Bring new thinking and ways of doing things to the function, including analysing and pushing new metrics and performance indicators.
- Ensure adherence to policies and procedures, best practices; identify and implement areas of improvements. Provide insightful information and expectations to management to aid in long-term and short-term decision making.

**For you to be successful
**We expect you to be able to demonstrate the following key competencies**

Impactful
- Focused on objectives and identifies activities and key results required to meet them
- Evaluates data and makes decisions, including differing stakeholder perspectives and/or some missing information. Understands when an “80% solution” is sufficient and acts accordingly
- Takes accountability and self-motivated to deliver results even in situations which are not straight-forward

Curious
- Actively seeks to learn from others and is inquisitive in order to increase knowledge and competence. Expands understanding of team’s key activities for improved collaboration
- Demonstrates reflection and solicits feedback from others. Evaluates and learns from set-backs and adversity.

Collaborative
- Partners with a range of people to create trust, and co-create and deliver mutually beneficial outcomes
- Develops collaborative and dynamic working relationships to achieve the best possible outcomes

Communication
- Effective and articulate communicator actively and respectfully listens to and synthesizes others’ perspectives
- Concise in communicating and references relevant information tailored to the audience to support points

Adaptable
- Looks to understand bigger picture rationale for changes and adapts in a flexible and nimble manner Flexible in successfully juggling multiple requirements, ambiguity and competing demands. Perseveres in challenging circumstances

**You will require the following qualifications and skills**
- Qualified accountant or Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Finance and or Accounting with Professional Certifications **.**:

- 15+ years’ experience in financial management and business process modelling; experience in Tech finance preferred.
- Deep understanding of cost drivers of technology spend; experience in setting up tech cost re-charge / price book model.
- Knowledge in Tech Project Finance is preferable, notably around IT capitalisation.
- Knowledge in tech vendor management would be ideal (especially how to negotiate the best deal for bolttech and maximise profit).
- Strong analytical, quantitative, execution, project management and leadership skills coupled with good financial acumen.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management and business partnering.
- Proficient with MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.