Senior Manager / Associate Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

About the Role

This position entails overseeing the Group-wide and business unit budgeting, forecasting, and planning activities. You will manage and update financial models that project revenue, costs, margins, and cash flows, while monitoring the accuracy of forecasts. Your role includes analyzing performance relative to budgets, previous years, and strategic goals. You will prepare comprehensive reporting packages and pinpoint major revenue drivers, cost patterns, margin fluctuations, working capital concerns, and business risks.

Collaborating closely with business leaders and operational teams, you will interpret business performance and financial variables, aiding in contract profitability assessments, margin enhancement, pricing strategies, resource allocation, and expense management. Additionally, you will transform financial findings into actionable commercial insights to support management decisions. Your responsibilities will include developing and sustaining KPI dashboards and performance measurement frameworks for both Group and business units, tracking financial and operational metrics, as well as contributing to Finance integration and transformation projects across the Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual Group and business unit budgeting alongside regular forecasting cycles
• Maintain detailed financial models for forecasting revenues, costs, margins, and cash flows
• Ensure forecast accuracy by identifying, reporting variances and recommending corrective measures
• Conduct performance analyses against budgets, prior years, and strategic plans and compile reporting documents
• Detect essential revenue contributors, cost trends, margin changes, working capital challenges, and potential risks
• Provide concise commentary and insightful analysis to aid management review and informed decision-making
• Work in partnership with business heads and operational managers to gain financial and performance insights
• Assist with contract profitability, margin improvements, pricing strategies, manpower deployment, and cost containment
• Create and maintain KPI dashboards and performance management frameworks at Group and unit levels
• Generate financial analyses and business cases for management consideration and approvals

Candidate Profile

• Possess a Degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business, or related field
• Professional qualifications such as CA (Singapore), ACCA, CFA or equivalent are advantageous
• Have 6 to 10 years’ experience in financial planning & analysis, management reporting, transaction advisory, or audit
• Experience within real estate services including property management, facilities management, construction, or related sectors is preferable
• Demonstrated expertise in Excel, financial modeling, budgeting, and variance analysis
• Familiarity with Power BI or similar dashboard tools preferred; experience with Dynamics 365 is a plus
• Exhibit strong analytical skills, remarkable attention to detail, and the ability to translate financial data into clear commercial insights
• Commercially astute, autonomous, and capable of constructively challenging assumptions
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate confidently across finance, operations, and senior management stakeholders