Director, GF FP&A - Budgeting & Forecasting MY

Key Responsibilities include:

1. Support Strategic Decision‑Making
   Provide forward‑looking insights to management by translating strategy into financial plans, supporting leaders evaluate options, investments, and trade‑offs. Analyse deals and transactions with the profitability and strategic lense.
2. Budgeting and Forecasting
   Develop accurate budgets, forecasts, and long‑range plans that align financial resources with business goals and enable proactive management of performance. Translate budget and target expectations to clear strategies for businesses
3. Performance Monitoring and Control
   Lead forecasting for country and business to provide forward looking insights. Curate topical conversations with senior management on issues with performance.
4. Resource Allocation Optimization
   Guide efficient allocation of capital and operating resources by prioritizing initiatives that maximize value and returns.
5. Risk Identification and Management
   Identify financial risks and sensitivities (e.g., cost inflation, revenue volatility, FX exposure), perform scenario and sensitivity analyses, and support mitigation planning.
6. Value Creation and Profitability Improvement
   Partner with business units to improve margins, reduce costs, enhance productivity, and drive sustainable growth. Continuous simulation to seize opportunities for value creation.
7. Communication with Stakeholders
   Provide consistent and reliable financial narratives to senior management, the board, and external stakeholders (where applicable).
8. Support Operational Excellence & transformation
   Translate operational drivers into financial outcomes, ensuring alignment between operational realities and financial expectations. Lead transformation and continuous improvement within the function and for bankwide.

Job Specification:

• Degree in Finance, business administration, management, economics, engineering
• Professional Accounting qualification, CFA, Chartered Banker
• 10-15 years of banking and finance experience and 10 years experience in managing stakeholders, running of projects and leading programmes
• Strong financial acumen, budgeting, forecasting & planning, data management and systems knowledge
• Good in problem solving - financial analysis & insights generation, scenario and sensitivity analysis and commercial and investment analysis.