ASSISTANT MANAGER, FP&A
Job Summary
Support the delivery of regional Finance Planning, Analysis and Reporting activities within RBS by providing standardized execution, coordination, first-level review and analytical support to RHQ and APAC Operating Companies. The role acts as a regional Finance support hub, enabling RHQ and OpCos to focus on business partnering, decision-making and strategic analysis while RBS manages repeatable, process-driven and coordination-intensive Finance activities.
Job Description
1. Budgeting & Forecasting Support
• Coordinate the annual budget and periodic forecast cycles
• Prepare budget templates, instructions and timelines
• Perform first-level validation, prior-period and variance checks, follow up on submission issues, and consolidate approved inputs into regional views.
• Support budget allocations, forecast updates and data maintenance or uploads in Tagetik
2. Monthly Reporting & Financial Analysis
• Coordinate and monitor monthly Flash P&L, actual reporting and forecast submissions from OpCos
• Validate the completeness and reasonableness of submissions, investigate errors or exceptions, and perform predefined variance, trend and anomaly analysis
• Prepare regional reporting summaries, Balance Sheet analysis and initial management reporting materials for RHQ review.
3. Business Review Support
• Prepare or consolidate Business Review materials using Tagetik and other financial information, and perform completeness, consistency and reasonableness checks
• Highlight significant variances and draft preliminary discussion points or questions for RHQ review
• Coordinate meeting schedules with OpCos and maintain action trackers to support timely follow-up.
4. Period-End Reporting & Consolidation Support
• Reconcile source financial information to Trial Balance and other reporting sources, and map the data into standardized regional formats.•
Review account mappings and investigate unmapped or exceptional items
• Execute data conversion and Tagetik uploads, perform post-upload validation and coordinate issue resolution.
5. Tagetik & Reporting Administration
• Maintain Tagetik user access, licence records and relevant Finance reporting or Interim Solution distribution lists
• Process approved additions, removals and access changes, and support routine data administration and reporting activities. Ensure records remain accurate, current and aligned with approved requests.
6. Treasury & Corporate Finance Coordination
• Coordinate annual dividend and royalty payment requirements with OpCos, monitor payment status and follow up on outstanding items
• Prepare supporting information for RHQ and Global Treasury discussions, including cash flow and funding requirement analysis
• Support annual or ad-hoc Borrowing Facility Limit reviews and coordinate approved renewal requests and documentation.
7. Process Governance & Continuous Improvement
• Maintain process documentation, procedures, review criteria, reporting calendars and trackers for deadlines, exceptions and outstanding actions
• Monitor adherence to agreed processes and support timely escalation of unresolved matters.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and automate recurring regional Finance activities and reporting.
Note:
• The scope of work may be revised based on management needs or requests. Other related duties may be assigned by the superior from time to time.
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or a related field.
• A recognized professional accounting or finance qualification, such as ACCA, CPA or an equivalent qualification, is advantageous.
Skills
Required Experience
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial accounting, consolidation or a related finance function.
• Hands-on experience using financial planning, consolidation and reporting systems, preferably D365 and Tagetik system
• Experience in system and reporting administration support including data maintenance, data uploads and user access support.
• Exposure to treasury and corporate finance coordination, including dividend and royalty payments, cash flow analysis, funding requirements and borrowing facility reviews, is advantageous.
Skills & Competencies
• Strong financial and analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial statements, identify significant movements and translate data into clear preliminary insights for RHQ review.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, financial accounting, consolidation principles and regional reporting processes.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and good proficiency in PowerPoint for financial analysis, reconciliations, reporting summaries and Business Review materials.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective coordination with RHQ, HQ/Global Finance and Treasury, APAC OpCo Finance teams, external accountants and RBS colleagues.
• Well organized and able to manage concurrent budget, forecast, reporting, consolidation and treasury coordination activities within defined deadlines.
• Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to data accuracy, completeness, consistency, documentation and control compliance.
• Proactive problem-solver able to investigate submission issues, unmapped items and reporting exceptions, coordinate follow-up and escalate matters requiring business judgement or approval.
• Demonstrates sound professional judgement, integrity and appropriate handling of confidential financial information.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, multicultural and regionally distributed environment.
• Fluency in English or another APAC language is an advantage.