Company Background
Our client is a leading global financial services organization with a strong international presence across North America, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. As part of its continued transformation journey, the organization is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to support strategic IT financial management initiatives and drive the implementation of advanced financial systems.
Working Location
Bangsar South, KL
Working Mode / Hours
Hybrid (3 days office; 2 days home) / Mon - Fri, 9am - 6pm
Job Description
Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Partner with regional stakeholders to develop and manage operational (Opex) and capital (Capex) budgets.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, depreciation, and amortization activities to ensure accurate financial reporting and P&L integrity.
- Analyze spending patterns and perform detailed variance analysis between actuals, budgets, and forecasts.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost allocation methodologies and financial processes to enhance forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency.
System Implementation & Asset Migration
- Participate in a regional project involving the migration of asset data from legacy platforms into the Apptio Fixed Asset Register (FAR) module.
- Manage end-to-end migration activities including data extraction, cleansing, mapping, reconciliation, and validation.
- Establish and maintain Apptio Ways of Working (TWOW) standards across the organization.
- Develop and enhance Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models to provide comprehensive visibility into business service costs.
- Generate meaningful financial insights and reporting from Apptio data to support strategic decision-making.
IT Asset & Financial Governance
- Manage the Apptio Fixed Asset Register, ensuring asset additions, disposals, and transfers are accurately maintained.
- Apply accounting principles related to fixed assets, depreciation, capitalization, and amortization to ensure compliance with accounting standards.
- Evaluate project expenditures and determine the appropriate accounting treatment between capitalized and operational expenses.
- Support governance and compliance initiatives related to technology investments and asset management.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Finance, FP&A, IT Finance, Financial Planning, Fixed Asset Accounting, or Technology Cost Management.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, Capex, Opex, depreciation, amortization, capitalization, and financial reporting.
- Knowledge of IFRS and/or GAAP, particularly in relation to fixed assets and capital projects.
- Experience working with enterprise systems such as Apptio, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, Ariba, or similar platforms.
- Hands-on experience in system implementation, data migration, or financial transformation projects is highly desirable.
- Advanced Excel skills including financial modeling, pivot tables, data analysis, and reporting.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
