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Finance Business Partner, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kantar is the world's leading AI-native marketing data and analytics business and an indispensable brand partner to the world's top companies. We combine the most meaningful attitudinal and behavioural data with deep expertise and advanced analytics to uncover how people think and act. We help clients understand what has happened and why and how to shape the marketing strategies that shape their future.
About The Job
This role is the Finance Business Partner for Kantar Malaysia, working closely with the Managing Director and leadership team to strengthen financial performance and decision-making. You will connect financial insight with day-to-day operations, helping the business act with clarity and confidence.
You will focus on forecasting, performance management, and commercial decision support. By translating financial results into clear actions, you will encourage better outcomes across revenue, margin, and cash performance while building strong relationships across the market and shared services teams.
Job Goals
- Partner with market leadership to improve financial performance and decision quality
- Lead budget and reforecast cycles with strong accuracy and accountability
- Strengthen forecasting discipline and align outlooks to pipeline activity
- Translate financial performance into clear, actionable insight for the business
- Support commercial decisions including pricing, proposals, and pipeline conversion
- Improve revenue quality, billing accuracy, and cash collection outcomes
- Ensure strong governance, compliance, and integrity of financial reporting
- Work closely with finance colleagues across Southeast Asia and India, ensuring alignment across markets and contributing to a consistent, end-to-end finance approach.
Ideal Skills & Capabilities
- Experience partnering with senior business leaders to shape decisions
- Strong capability in forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning tools (e.g. OneStream)
- Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, financial modelling, data analysis)
- Ability to connect financial insights with commercial and operational drivers
- Confidence influencing decisions through clear and practical communication
- High level of ownership, accountability, and attention to financial discipline
- Experience collaborating across markets and working effectively within a regional finance structure
- Understanding of end-to-end finance processes and how different teams contribute to overall performance
Why join Kantar
Kantar is one of the most recognised and trusted brands in its industry, with unmatched depth of experience and global reach. What makes this moment different is how much is changing at once. We are investing in AI and technology, evolving how intelligence is delivered, and working on some of the world's most influential brands.
People joining Kantar now are part of shaping what comes next contributing to work that is more connected, more dynamic, and more impactful.
Privacy and Legal Statement
At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (Kantar). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Centerpoint NorthMalaysia
Kantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.
