Participates in the development and implementation of the department's strategy, objectives, KPIs and operational plans and ensure the cascading of such to employees’ individual objectives. Communicates and promotes the department's strategy across all relevant stakeholders.
Provide day-to-day leadership, management and supervision of direct reports and support them in achieving their operational objectives with regular monitoring and feedback on performance.
Implement NWC's talent management programs in own department and ensure compliance with talent management guidelines and process (including performance management, employee development, and other people programs).
Monitor staff achievements, perform periodic performance appraisals, and provide guidance or coaching to direct reports in performing their delegated duties.
Set and supervise implementation and contribute to continuous improvement of the department’s policies, procedures, processes and standards.
Direct the department’s budgeting process and provide the function head with the department’s budget forecast. Monitor performance against budget and address variances.
Manage and direct development of the annual budget based on business plan and strategy, and oversee control and implementation of budget based on direction of the company
Manage organizational alignment of all financial planning and analysis activities towards achieving NWC's strategic objectives.
Manage and ensure timely and accurate financial planning and forecasting process whilst delivering insight through management reporting and analysis in line with NWC strategy and objectives
Manage and direct the implementation of timely and accurate data collection and collation from various sources, and oversee the activities of data analysis and utilization.
Provide timely and meaningful financial and management reporting and ensure that the reporting continually evolves to meet the needs of the business
Conduct budget control by receiving and approving/declining spend requests
Monitor, tracks, and reports budget expenditure and conduct variance analysis to oversee any deviations from the planned budget, highlight potential issues and avoid cost overruns
Liaise with relevant department/sections and project team members to discuss and track progress against budget
Manage end-to-end projects financials and responsible for maintaining the appropriate records for all projects
Manage the analyses process for financial statements, financial indicators, financial KPIs, business trends and actual versus planned variances, report the observation and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
Assemble data, analyze performance, identify trends and develop recommendations to support finance, performance, planning and operations
Manage the process of consolidating and preparing financial reports and dashboards and align with concerned parties to validate the reports contents and agree on the recommended actions.
Develop financial models to support new and potential initiatives while liaising with relevant departments to prepare business cases for clusters and business units and new initiatives and projects
Partner with other finance leaders to foster cross functional collaboration and enable and direct local business processes and make sure they are optimized to manage costs with aim to streamline internal financial reports and reporting processes to deliver more efficient, more effective, and more useful reports and analysis
Liaise with other NWC departments to conduct full financial planning and budgeting exercise (during budgeting cycle)
Gather views from the team, review them and provide recommendations to improve the financial services and systems used at NWC to improve efficiency and accuracy
Collaborate closely with other Finance teams to prepare a comprehensive, long-term cash flow forecast for NWC projects and develop financial information reports to provide current and relevant information for all relevant stakeholders
Ensure compliance with current budget and spending policies, and propose improved policies and systems regarding spending guidelines, cost savings, cost allocation, and annual planning
Develop periodic and ad-hoc reports on activities related to the functional area, as required
Carry out any other tasks requested by the direct manager or the superior that are within the limits of the job, provided that this task does not make a fundamental difference in the basic tasks of the job.
BA/BS (Master preferred) in Accounting and/or Finance, or equivalent work experience
SOCPA or CPA or CMA or similar qualification preferred
