Senior Associate – Group Treasury & FP&A
1. Job Purpose
To manage the Group's day-to-day cash flow monitoring, weekly cash flow consolidation, budgeting and forecasting support, and treasury-related financial analysis. The role ensures timely and accurate financial reporting, provides visibility over the Group's cash position and financial outlook, and highlights key movements, variances and risks to the Group GM, Finance and top management to support effective planning and decision-making.
2. Key Responsibilities
A. Group Treasury & Cash Flow Management
- Monitor the Group's daily cash position, including bank balances, cash inflows, cash outflows and liquidity requirements.
- Track significant receipts, payments, fund transfers and upcoming financial commitments to ensure sufficient funds are available.
- Identify potential cash shortfalls, surplus cash and funding requirements, escalating significant matters to management.
- Coordinate with Group entities on cash movements, expected receipts, payments and intercompany funding requirements.
B. Weekly Group Cash Flow Consolidation
- Take ownership of the weekly Group cash flow compilation and consolidation process, ensuring timely submissions from all relevant entities.
- Develop and maintain a standardized cash flow template to streamline data collection, consolidation and reporting.
- Consolidate cash flow information, including opening balances, projected inflows, outflows and closing balances.
- Review submissions for completeness, accuracy and consistency, and follow up on discrepancies or missing information.
- Maintain short-term cash flow forecasts and highlight significant movements, potential cash gaps and funding requirements.
C. Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis
- Support the preparation and consolidation of the Group's annual budget, periodic financial forecasts and budget revisions in coordination with relevant finance teams.
- Consolidate financial information and assumptions from Group entities to support budgeting and forecasting exercises.
- Monitor actual financial performance against budget and forecast, analyze significant variances and highlight key contributing factors.
- Prepare financial projections and scenario analysis to assess anticipated cash flow, funding requirements and potential financial risks.
- Analyze key financial trends and working capital movements to support financial planning and management decision-making.
- Assist in preparing financial summaries and management reports highlighting budget performance, forecast changes and areas requiring attention.
D. Management Reporting & Presentation
- Prepare and present the weekly consolidated Group cash flow report to the Group GM, Finance and top management.
- Highlight the Group's current cash position, expected cash movements, projected closing balances and significant changes from previous forecasts.
- Present key budget-versus-actual and forecast-versus-actual variances, where required, together with explanations of material movements.
- Identify potential cash shortfalls, funding gaps, financial risks and significant budget or forecast deviations requiring management attention.
- Present key findings and proposed follow-up actions clearly and concisely to support timely management decisions.
E. Process Improvement & Coordination
- Improve cash flow and financial reporting templates to reduce manual work and enhance accuracy and efficiency.
- Coordinate with Group and subsidiary finance teams to ensure timely, complete and consistent financial submissions.
- Maintain proper supporting records and comply with Group treasury policies and reporting procedures.
- Perform other treasury, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline.
- Relevant working experience in treasury, cash management, budgeting, financial forecasting or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
- Experience working in a Group environment or multinational corporation (MNC), preferably involving multiple entities and coordination with regional or overseas finance teams.
- Experience in Group cash flow consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting is an advantage.
- Strong Power BI and Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, PivotTables and data consolidation. Experience with Power Query or reporting automation is an advantage.
Pay: RM6,000.00 - RM8,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person