Senior Manager, FP&A - Data Enablement & Governance
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At NUS, the Office of Finance stands as a dynamic and strategic partner, driving financial sustainability and operational excellence. Our team plays a crucial role in overseeing financial planning, optimising resources, and enabling the University’s ambition and innovation.
We are at the forefront of formulating, reviewing, and analysing the University’s strategic, operating, and capital budgets. Through strong governance, robust financial processes, and cutting-edge systems, we ensure every dollar is put to its best use, fueling research, education, and transformation.
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🚀 Make an Impact: Play a key role in shaping financial strategies that influence the University’s growth and global standing.
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If you are passionate about finance, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to be part of a team that drives meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you!
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Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Manager, FP&A Data Enablement & Governance, who will play a key role in strengthening data infrastructure, system integration, and governance within Central FP&A.
This role will work at the intersection of Finance, data and technology, partnering with Finance teams, IT, and system vendors to ensure robust data integration, system stability, and sound data governance practices across the FP&A landscape.
This is a senior individual contributor role with significant ownership and requires strategic thinking. It is ideal for someone who enjoys combining technical expertise with business problem-solving such as building analytical solutions, improving systems and data processes and helping users adopt new ways of working. Equally important, this role requires strong communication skills and a proven ability to drive change management: the person must be able to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, build buy-in for new processes and tools, guide users through transitions, and ensure sustained adoption across diverse teams. Prior experience with AI tools or frameworks is highly valued as the organisation embraces AI across its operations.
The incumbent will have the opportunity to shape the future Finance analytics landscape at NUS - strengthening our FP&A platform and data architecture and experimenting with AI and automation to transform how Office of Finance works.
Key Responsibilities
FP&A System & Digital Enablement
- Own the day-to-day management, configuration and continuous improvement of the Jedox FP&A platform and Acorn Hub, including dashboards, data infrastructure, integrations, user access and system performance.
- Translate business requirements into scalable system solutions, working closely with Finance, NUS IT, vendors and other stakeholders to resolve issues, enhance capabilities and ensure operational continuity.
- Manage Jedox operations and period-end closing activities end to end, including the Period End Activities Tracker in Power BI, data pipeline monitoring, period-end configuration and validation of data completeness and accuracy.
- Lead system change, release and UAT activities, including requirements gathering, prioritisation, testing, stakeholder sign-off, release planning and maintenance of the change log and release calendar.
- Manage vendor performance and service delivery, including SLA tracking, incident resolution, root-cause analysis and maintenance of an operational knowledge base to minimise recurring issues.
- Drive digital enablement and future enhancements, including expanded reporting and AI-enabled capabilities, while maintaining clear system documentation, governance and alignment with NUS IT through the Jedox Service Line and Helix implementation.
Finance Analytics & Power BI
- Lead the governance, consolidation and continuous improvement of Power BI reporting across central and faculty teams, establishing a consistent and well-governed enterprise reporting framework.
- Assess and rationalise the existing Power BI landscape by reviewing data sources, refresh schedules, usage and report relevance; retire redundant or outdated dashboards and standardise those retained.
- Ensure data source integrity and consistency across reports, with dashboards aligned to approved, reconciled sources and Jedox as the single source of truth for FP&A data.
- Define and maintain Power BI governance standards covering naming conventions, dataset certification, row-level security, refresh schedules, version control and enterprise deployment.
- Build and optimise Power BI reports and data models hands-on, applying advanced DAX, Power Query (M) and best-practice data modelling techniques.
- Partner with Finance, faculties, IT and other stakeholders to understand reporting needs, drive adoption of the reporting framework, and communicate changes and impacts effectively.
Data Integration & Governance
- Own and continuously improve FP&A data guidelines and integration processes to ensure reliable, timey and reconciled data into Jedox and Power BI.
- Carry out data quality activities — including profiling, validation, and reconciliation — across systems (e.g., ERP, data lake, Jedox, Power BI) to maintain consistency and reliability of FP&A data.
- Translate Finance requirements and operational pain points into practical and scalable system solutions.
- Support the development and implementation of data governance guidelines, including data ownership, accountability frameworks, data classification standards, and access control policies.
- Promote responsible data sharing across teams while ensuring proper usage, documentation, and compliance with data security and privacy protocols.
AI Opportunity Identification & Enablement
- Identify practical opportunities to apply AI and automation to finance activities such as reconciliation, anomaly detection, predictive forecasting, or natural-language querying of financial data.
- Develop and execute proof-of-concept pilots to assess promising AI use cases and business value.
- Keep abreast of developments in Finance technology, analytics and AI, translate relevant opportunities into practical recommendations.
- Contribute to a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement within Office of Finance.
Change Management & Stakeholder Communication
- Develop and execute change management plans for system transitions, process changes, and new tool rollouts ensuring affected stakeholders understand what is changing, why, and how it impacts their work.
- Craft clear, tailored communications for different audiences from technical teams to senior management translating complex system and data concepts into accessible, actionable language.
- Conduct training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one walkthroughs to support user adoption of new systems, reports, and processes.
- Proactively identify resistance or adoption challenges and address them through engagement, listening, and practical problem-solving rather than top-down mandates.
- Establish feedback loops with end users to continuously refine tools, reports, and processes based on real-world usage and evolving needs.
- Document processes, FAQs, and user guides to ensure knowledge is accessible and transitions are sustainable beyond the initial rollout.
Qualifications
What the candidate should bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in financial data management, with a strong focus on data governance, data quality, and system integration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Power BI is a core requirement — including expert-level DAX, Power Query (M), data modelling. Experience in managing Power BI in an enterprise environment, including governance, gateway or deployment practices would be preferred.
- Proven experience in change management — including developing adoption strategies, delivering training, crafting stakeholder communications, and guiding users through system and process transitions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical and data concepts clearly to non-technical audiences, and to tailor messaging for different stakeholder groups.
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and access control practices.
Good to have
- Experience working with enterprise financial systems; hands-on experience with SAP ERP or Jedox is a plus.
- Experience in post-implementation support and application maintenance (AMS) for enterprise systems is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias toward practical, hands-on execution.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional environment, managing multiple priorities without direct reports.
The position is only open to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents.