Regional Finance Manager, Group Reporting (Lending)

Get to know the Role:-

• Own and be accountable for accuracy, timeliness, effectiveness and efficiency of all processes related to controllership for Grab Financial Group
• Ensure financial compliance (eg statutory, regulatory and tax compliance) of responsible Grab entities, as well as provide product area support to controllership team
• Collaborate with technical accounting, legal, tax, treasury and compliance to ensure we are appropriately accounting for any new initiatives and partner with them on accounting memo and policies
• Review monthly Group management account and year end financial statements are prepared timely and accurately
• Expected to have strong presence and provide your finance point of view clearly and convincingly to other stakeholders
• Will have the opportunity to drive the implementation of GFG new business initiatives for Finance by partnering with IT finance, Product, Legal, Business partnering and marketing.     
• You must be comfortable working independently, dealing with ambiguity, be organized and process effective interpersonal skills to successfully partner with cross functional teams
• Your ability to influence, communicate and drive change and value to the business will be critical

Day-to-day activities:

• Ensure cross-finance readiness for lending product initiatives in all region, providing jurisdictional expertise
• Project manage and implement various company-wide strategic initiatives as well as Finance internal projects. Think through the implications to various finance teams and drive all the work streams to complete deliverables in line with commitments
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or standardize activities and automate where possible – make finance and related processes are simple and effective as possible (Keeping internal customer in mind)
• Represent finance on a cross-functional integration team with strong influence to ensure that they incorporate finance requirements into the product development
• Provide insightful information and expectations to management to aid in long-term and short-term decision making

Qualifications - Education requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in a Business/ Commerce discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Qualified accountant (CA/CPA/ACCA) or other professional accounting accreditation
• Experience with IFRS

Experience requirement

• Ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment and to lead and drive complex operational initiatives
• Collaborative working style and ability to work with business owner/ business partner
• Knowledge of finance, full set accounts, budgeting/forecast and internal control principles
• Good team player who is hands-on, committed and responsible and can deliver with tight deadlines
• Possess professional qualities with good communication, interpersonal skills and teamwork
• Strong project management experience with proven track record of driving transformational initiatives through successful execution and ability to influence stakeholders
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high intensity environment
• Highly numerate with strong analytical and problem solving, influencing and change management skills. Ability to think out of the box and make judgement calls.
• High level of dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong business acumen