Assistant Manager, Finance & Accounts (Planning & Controlling)

Assistant Manager, Finance & Accounts (Planning & Controlling) 65347 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Malaysia | Full-Time | Permanent

Job Summary

You will be responsible on the preparation of financial planning and forecasting processes, supporting management expense budget, analysing and evaluation of financial results and key operations metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage the financial planning process including annual planning/budgeting and monthly forecasting;
• Review reasonableness of the underlying assumptions used for planning projections and business cases;
• Ensure accuracy of monthly management reports and presentation materials to senior management, regional office, board and board committees;
• Monitor and analyse financial performance against budgets, highlight significant deviations and recommending corrective actions to improve performance;
• Understand and analyse the key drivers to validate forecast and to support business functions in establishing data-driven decisions and strategies;
• Implement appropriate metrics to monitor performance against forecast and plan, ensuring alignment with corporate strategies and targets;
• Perform regular expense analysis and work with actuarial team on updating expense methodology, including updates to support IFRS 17 attributable expenses analysis.
• Support Finance initiatives including benchmarking studies, provide support for IT reporting and other initiatives as rolled out by Allianz Group

Key Requirements

• Must possess at least Degree in Accountancy/ Professional Qualifications (ACCA, CPA, etc.) or other equivalent professional qualifications;
• Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably with audit or Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA) background
• Insurance industry experience will be an added advantage;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to manage internal stakeholders and work efficiently;
• Meticulous, strong analytical skills and strong commercial acumen;
• Positive working attitude, self-starter, committed and driven to meet deadlines and targets

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz' company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group Job ID 65347