Senior Manager, Asia Expense Management

Job title: Senior Manager, Asia Expense Management

Company: Manulife


Job description: We are committed to creating a workplace that offers unlimited opportunities for employees to realize their career goals. Whether it’s working abroad, exploring a new career direction or simply progressing in their chosen field, we help our employees reach their full potential.We’re here to make your job hunt easy. Get our newest jobs sent straight to your inbox! Click on the cloud in the top right corner of the page and sign up for job alerts.The OpportunityThe customer is the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering our professionals with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of our business, which is why we need you.Manulife Regional Officer is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Asia Expense Management. The incumbent is expected to establish governance and oversight of spend, and to engender a cost-consciousness throughout the organization. Ideally, we are looking for an independent & self motivated individual to come and join the team.On the job you will:

• Provide timely, accurate and insightful expense forecasts to facilitate business decisions and to drive expense accountability for the Regional Office and the assigned Asia functions. This requires working with regional functional teams and local teams to ensure that the information is sufficiently robust for decision-making purposes.
• Partner with the key stakeholders, including the Function Owner, to identify the spending trend and patterns, potential savings / accrual needed and area of potential spending to align with and achieve the Regional Office and Asia Division strategic goals. Provide monthly expense reports to the functional heads in Regional Office and address any queries.
• Manage regional office legal entity reporting, including regional office expenses, expense allocation to business units. This includes liaising with regional functional teams and the BU finance teams to ensure the allocation basis is appropriate, meets tax transfer pricing requirements, and is understood and accepted by the business units.
• Manage on intercompany charges and communication with BUs to ensure proper elimination on Group level.
• Set and manage of business unit expense targets for the Asia segment, working with both business unit finance teams and regional office/global functional heads to determine the targets based on the strategic objectives of the business. The expense target-setting process is complex and requires extensive stakeholder management, frequently including senior regional executives.
• Ensure the one source of truth of information between the Project Team and Finance Team. Actively look for and execute opportunities to improve existing processes in driving efficiency in the process and quality reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate and review submissions from business units and functions, drill down to the underlying business drivers and provide senior management with in-depth analysis of the business performance.
• Consolidate and review Regional Office expenses including gross expense and RO allocations.
• Provide actuals, forecast and budget submissions on RO Expenditure, Expenses, CE and other KPI metrics.
• Consolidate the monthly Expenses report for Asia Division, to identify the key expenses drivers and to strive for consistency booking across different Business units.
• Responsible for monthly / quarterly financial analytical review for the region and report submission to Corporate requirements.
• Work closely with Corporate Finance and business units in order to ensure mutual understanding on the reporting requirements.
• Proactively look for better ways to provide the information through improved analysis or reporting process.
• Review business units’ annual budget/forecast data and address issues, follow up with business units Finance and regional functions to resolve identified problems and provide opinions on the feasibility.

Preferred qualification:

• A recognized accounting degree with at least 8 years of post-graduate experience, project management and reporting experience is a plus
• Good financial analysis skills to track resources and costs
• Demonstrated strong analytical, planning, execution and problem solving skills.
• Strategic thinking with visionary paradigm
• Challenging the status quo and acts a change agent
• Focus on client needs, foster teamwork and strong collaboration
• Be able to communicate and summarize complex issues to the audience
• Self-starter and passionate with can-do attitude
• Ability to multitask effectively, perform under tight timeframe and cope in a fast paced and dynamic work environment
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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Location: Hong Kong

Job date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:27:18 GMT

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