Position Overview
The Regional Client Finance Analyst acts as a strategic finance business partner to regional account leadership and client stakeholders. This role is responsible for delivering insightful financial analysis, ensuring strong financial governance, and driving operational and commercial performance of client account within the APAC region.
The position combines business partnering, financial planning & analysis, month end ownership, and financial control, requiring close collaboration with operations teams, shared service centres, vendors, and regional finance counterparts.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering and Strategic Finance Support
- Act as trusted financial advisor to Account Directors and client leadership teams, providing data-driven insights to support decision making
- Support APAC Finance Manager, onsite FM leads and functional teams in handling business, operational and financial decision making, risk mitigation and other financial advice
- Team member of Account Regional Team with clients, interacting with different stakeholders including third-party service providers/vendors and client personnel
- Identify financial risks and opportunities through analysis of performance indicators and propose initiatives that enhance financial performance
- Collaborate with various stakeholders including operations teams, shared service centers and third-party service providers
Financial Operations Management
- Oversee end-to-end accounting functions including Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL), billing, and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) cycles
- Maintain strong internal controls, documentation, financial process and audit ready financial records
- Manage vendor payments and monthly billing in compliance with company policies and client contractual requirements
- Monitor accounts receivable and cash flow to optimize working capital management
- Manage daily expenditure for both Opex and Capex
- Accountable for timely coordination of invoice processing and monitoring accounts receivable to ensure management of company cash flow
Month End Closing and Financial Control
- Lead month-end closing process for assigned client accounts, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Responsible for ensuring month-end closing procedures are properly performed and investigated, including Open PO, GRNV, UMLV and Bank Reconciliation.
- Ensure accurate accruals, reconciliations, revenue and expense recognition
- Investigate and resolve unusual variances, system issues, or accounting discrepancies
- Ensure that appropriate processes controls are in place and maintained to guarantee the integrity of all transactions
Financial Planning, Analysis and Reporting
- Prepare and present monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports with meaningful variance analysis for internal stakeholders and clients
- Partner with account team to develop comprehensive annual budgets and maintain rolling quarterly forecasts
- Perform ad-hoc scenario analysis
- Analyse financial performance and provide actionable insights to leadership
- Review and monitor potential risks and opportunities within accounts
- Support internal and external audit processes when required.
Process Improvement and Compliance
- Propose and implement process improvements to optimize efficiency and effectiveness
- Streamline and automate finance processes where possible
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulatory requirements, company policies and client contractual obligations
- Develop and enforce financial policies and controls
- Ensure all finance staff are well-trained on financial processes
- Support and maintain all necessary guidelines and manuals associated with financial governance processes
Team Support and Development
- Deliver training to onsite FM teams to ensure finance processes are well implemented with no risk
- Provide coaching and mentoring to junior finance staff
- Support APAC Finance Manager to deliver finance management from both company and client perspective at the regional level
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- University degree or professional qualification in accounting, finance or relevant field (ACCA, CIMA, CPA)
- Minimum 3-5 years of finance and accounting experience
- Experience in a variety of accounting software and ERP systems
- Candidate with regional exposure in APAC will be an added advantage
- Experience in navigating complex matrix environments
- Business partnering and commercial finance experience is an added advantage
Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in AP, AR, GL, Billing, and P2P processes
- Advanced Excel financial analysis skills, template development and automation.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial controls
- Demonstrated experience with client reporting and preparation of reports
- Proficiency in financial modelling and scenario analysis based on contractual commercial model.
Key Competencies
- Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving abilities with data-driven approach
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills
- Able to translate financial insights into actionable business recommendations
- Goal-oriented with capacity to focus on meeting all performance targets
- Capacity to deal with ambiguity and solve complex problems effectively
- Excellent planning and organizational skills to prioritize work and meet tight deadlines
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on efficiency and value creation
KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES
- Client satisfaction and high level of communication within the organization and with clients
- Achievement of KPI, financial and other targets as established for the account
- Timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting and month-end close
- Compliance with all legislative requirements and client contractual obligations
