Hybrid
We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.
Working Arrangement
Job Description
Role and Responsibilities
Reporting directly to the Finance Control Operations Director in MBPS, the role is primarily accountable for managing the financial performance, end to end accounting, financial and management reporting, expense management, budgeting and forecasting and support the Myanmar business unit as a finance partner. The role directly supports the CFO of Manulife Myanmar.
Responsibilities include the following
- Provide timely, accurate and insightful expense forecasts to facilitate business decisions and to drive expense accountability for the Myanmar Office. 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 local Myanmar BU, Regional Office and Asia Division strategic goals. Provide monthly regional and local management reports to the functional heads and address any queries.
- Manage Myanmar financial performance and cost management. This includes liaising with regional functional teams and the local Myanmar BU finance teams to ensure the allocation basis is appropriate, meets tax transfer pricing requirements, and is understood and accepted by the business units.
- Lead and manage risks, ensuring compliance with regulations and work with local and regional counterparts.
- Manage Financial reporting deliverables for Myanmar to ensure accurate and timely information is provided for Regional and Group external financial statement publication
- Work with the regional office to develop, implement, maintain and operationalize expense policies to ensure that an expense-conscious culture is embedded within Manulife Asia. Work with the Myanmar business unit finance teams to ensure that this is mirrored at a functional level.
- Participate in projects as assigned or other ad hoc activities.
Special Projects
Special projects will arise from time to time that will require strong financial knowledge, strong analytical and organizational skills with an innovative mindset. The role will be responsible ad-hoc projects as required by senior management pertaining to the introduction of new services, products and processes designed.
Qualifications
- University Business Degree and/or recognized accounting designation (Chartered Accountant or CPA)
- 7+ years of progressive finance controllership, financial reporting and management experience
- 4+ years of experience with Manulife finance
- Proven experience working with senior management teams (Strong stakeholder management requiring persuasion / influencing skills) relationship building and negotiation skills
- 5+ prior experience of managing shared services team is an advantage
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and strong stakeholder management capabilities
- Strong technical accounting skills with a solid understanding of the business environment
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with database applications
- Strong project management skills
- Self-starter, detail-oriented, willingness to take ownership and accountability
- Able to cope in a fast paced and dynamic work environment, with the mindset of continuous improvement and aiming for excellence
- Strong oral/written communication skills required to interact with senior officers and representatives from other Divisions and functional departments
Competencies
- Strong relationship management skills to build enduring and productive alliances across matrix organizations. Experience in partnering with a diverse team located in multiple locations and time zones.
- Strong presentation, influencing and negotiation skills across the organization.
- Demonstrates strong flexibility in the face of ambiguous situations, shifting demands, and challenging work environments. Uses diplomacy and tact to resolve difficult situations. Escalates more serious issues to management.
- Excellent initiative and ability to commit to a course of action in the face of risks and uncertainty
- Professional attitude and client service orientation collaborative and results-oriented
- Practical problem-solving skills and the ability to influence change
- Strong oral/written communication skills required to interact with senior officers and representatives from other Divisions and functional departments
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to be flexible to changing environments
- Ability to work independently and willing to collaborate with other teams for a project with huge scale benefits
This Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this role.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under 945' in Hong Kong.
Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Manulife
/John
Hancock
, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract,
develop
and
retain
a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment,
retention,advancement
colour
, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.
It is our priority to remove barriers to
provide
equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process
.
All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with
applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies
.To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact
.