Join a leading global bank as a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), VP on a 1-year contract - Renewable. This role will support the Head of FP&A in delivering high-quality management reporting, driving performance insights and forward-looking analysis including coordination of Country planning and forecasting cycles.
Principal responsibilities
Management Reporting and Performance Insights
- Produce monthly management reporting packs and provide executive-level performance commentary that highlights key drivers, risks and opportunities.
- Analyse financial and non-financial KPIs across revenue, costs, profitability, productivity and returns, translating results into clear insights and actions.
- Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Business and Infrastructure teams to identify performance opportunities, emerging risks and required management actions.
- Support preparation of materials for Board and Management committee forums respond to regulatory or ad hoc information requests where required.
- Conduct external market and peer benchmarking analyses and translate findings into actionable insights to improve competitiveness and productivity.
Planning & forecasting
- Support the annual budgeting exercise and periodic forecasting processes for Singapore entity level.
- Coordinate financial submissions from business and functional units, ensuring consistency, accuracy and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year performance identify key drivers, emerging trends and areas requiring intervention.
- Develop forward-looking financial models to assess performance and support decision making.
Process improvement, automation & controls.
- Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, improve data quality, strengthen controls and reduce manual effort.
- Champion automation and advanced analytics (including approved AI-enabled tools) across FP&A processes to improve efficiency, forecasting accuracy and decision support.
Requirements
- University degree and/or professional qualification in the field of Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
- Proven experience of 5 - 8 years in FP&A, management reporting, forecasting and/or performance analytics within a large organization (financial services experience preferred).
- Strong understanding of P&L mechanics, balance sheet and MIS methodologies including funds transfer pricing, cost allocations, risk/return concepts and other performance measurement metrics.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Able to apply sound judgement and challenge constructively on issues, assumptions and methodologies.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholder groups and build alignment across teams.
- Comfortable working with data and systems (e.g., Excel modelling MI/BI tools such as Power BI/Tableau), with a continuous improvement mindset.
Technical skills
- Experience and knowledge of TM1/Cognos reporting system (preferred)
- Knowledge of SQL (advanced), Python, Alteryx experience is an advantage.
