Finance Business Partner Senior Manager (Quản lý Cấp cao Phân Tích Tài Chính)

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Job Purpose Managing the partnership between the business and Finance through key areas:

• Providing world-class finance partnering services and taking care of a number of partner functions, supporting them in planning and controlling their functional budget, identifying opportunities, and making recommendations for improvements.
• Supporting key stakeholders, including CFO and CEO and Head of Finance Business Partnering to drive effective and value-add decision-making insight and support.
• Process enhancements to improve the efficiency and accuracy of Finance work for key stakeholders at Prudential Vietnam Assurance, Strategic Business Group (SBG), and Group.

Job Responsibilities _1. Partnering as Strategic and Trusted Advisor-Finance Business Partner_

• Building strong relationships and working with business stakeholders to understand the business and provide value-adding support across financial performance and forecasting, advice, and analysis, and through business proposals.
• Optimizing operational and financial business performance at the department level through frequent formal/informal updates with stakeholders, including monthly cost centre review meetings.
• Facilitating annual and quarterly budgeting processes to align resource allocation with division strategic initiatives.
• Providing senior stakeholder updates on expense overruns/underruns and recommended actions and timelines.
• Advising business users in effectively completing EPs and ACRs and supporting them through the preparation and approvals process.

_2. Business Analysis and Budget Control_

• Supporting FBP in providing value-added and actionable advice for financial control processes.
• Managing annual budget exercises and monthly/quarterly rolling forecasts, and monthly accruals.
• Updating management about their expense KPIs and recommending practical remediation actions.
• Developing tools to support stakeholder understanding of budget positions and key areas of focus.

_3. Finance Business Partner Operation_

• Developing, implementing, and reviewing operational policies and procedures.
• Implementing data governance processes that are embedded within the organization’s data creation, management, and protection.
• Enhancing operational procedures, systems, and principles in the areas of information flow and management, business processes, enhanced management reporting.

_4. Finance Project Management_

• Engaging with relevant stakeholders in all Finance projects to agree on implementation scope and deadlines.
• Monitoring and driving Finance projects in collaboration with relevant stakeholders to ensure progress is not behind deadlines and spending is within budget.

Job Accountability

• Updating and maintaining FBP roles to align closely to the business to provide more effective Finance support on projects and expense management.
• Cooperating and influencing all other departments within Finance to reduce manual work, increase efficiency, and effectiveness of Finance processes and controls.
• Preparing periodical financial reports with accuracy, completeness, and timeliness in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and Group Office accounting policies.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Computer Science, with a relevant professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CISA, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in finance business partnering.
• Strong ability to apply logical and critical thinking to resolve problems, and negotiate with and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Strong people management experience.
• Proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy.