Role Introduction

The Assistant Finance Business Partner sits under the Financial Services Department, mainly responsible for acting as the finance business partner for business units like Brand, Insights and Marketing Communications, Corporate Affairs and Procurement. You will be responsible for facilitating the regular accounting services to the business units and working closely with them to facilitate their budget and forecast, operating performance, cost monitoring and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Financial business partnering

• Partner with the Business Units to develop financial awareness and business strategies and develop a deep understanding of the business, its objectives, challenges, and key drivers
• Provide insightful business performance analysis and performance trending on a regular basis to support management decision making
• Supports business case development for project investments applying appropriate financial analysis and risk assessment.

Financial analytics

• Provide business performance analysis through the interpretation of results and explanation of drivers of variance (e.g. Monthly Reporting packs)
• Perform Key Performance Indicator review with Business Units and each Director on a regular basis, provide assistance to Business Units in relation to cost monitoring and performance review and support Director People team’s review on horizontal costs across departments, Hong Kong and Regions
• Coordinate preparation of Annual or Interim Business Reviews presentations
• Support corporate transactions and ensuring technical account implications are aligned with financial reporting team

Financial planning

• Prepare budget and regular forecasts, including the annual budget and 3-year plan, and quarterly reforecasting (including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash flow, project related budget / forecast);
• Meet with BUs to review forecast and budget numbers and assist with any other ad hoc budget analysis
• Lead the team to perform financial digitalisation transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Holder of a Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
• Big four working experiences is preferred. Recognised Certified Public Accountant or Accountancy qualification is required
• Minimum 5 years accounting related experience gained from a recognised audit firm
• Good command of both spoken and written English and Cantonese or Chinese
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office applications, especially in Excel
• Experience in using SAP advantageous
• Strong communication skill to all levels in the organisation and agility to work within a team environment
• Strong analytics and reporting skills in producing reports, documentation and presentations
• A quick learner with the ability to work independently and be self-motivated and attentive to details