Finance Manager
Job Summary
The Finance Manager is responsible for overseeing the management accounts team and providing leadership for financial controls, systems, and processes. The role involves managing full sets of accounts for multiple entities, including property, retail, and restaurant operations. It also requires ensuring compliance with accounting standards, leading financial reporting, and supporting the Group’s strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Manage full sets of accounts for multiple business entities
- Oversee financial closing, reporting, and budgeting processes
- Ensure compliance with tax regulations and accounting standards
- Lead and develop the finance and accounting team
- Support strategic decision-making through financial analysis
Required Skills
- 5+ years of relevant finance experience
- Degree in Finance or Accounting
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling proficiency
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Ability to manage complex data and competing priorities
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Manage the full set of accounts for multiple entities within the Group, including property investment, leasing, retail shops, and restaurant operations.
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial closing processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
- Prepare consolidated management reports, financial statements, variance analysis, cash flow forecasts, and performance reports for Management and Board review.
- Monitor and analyze business performance across different business units and provide financial insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, audit requirements, and statutory obligations.
- Liaise with external auditors, tax agents, company secretaries, bankers, and relevant authorities on financial and compliance matters.
- Review accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, bank reconciliation, and intercompany transactions to ensure accuracy and proper controls.
- Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for the Group.
- Oversee treasury functions including cash flow management, funding requirements, and banking facilities.
- Monitor tenancy-related financial matters including rental collections, lease accounting, service charges, and property-related expenses.
- Support retail and restaurant business operations by monitoring sales reporting, cost control, inventory valuation, and operational profitability.
- Strengthen internal controls, accounting procedures, and financial governance across all business units.
- Lead, supervise, and develop the finance and accounting team to ensure operational efficiency and high performance.
- Assist in business expansion, new investments, due diligence, and special projects as assigned by Management.
- Perform any other finance, accounting, and corporate assignments as directed by Management.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in finance roles with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.
- Degree in finance, accounting or equivalent is required.
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, and reporting skills.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate across business teams and make the right calls using data to support decision making.
- Advanced user of Excel and demonstrated ability to work with complex sets of data.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion.