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Assistant Director, Finance

Assistant Director, Finance

NTU (Nanyang Technology University- MainOffice-HR)Singapore
13 days ago
Job description

The College of Engineering is a leader in engineeringeducation and research. NTU College of Engineering comprises fiveinternationally-renowned engineering schools, each with its ownspecialisation. Focused on technology and innovation, all our fiveengineering schools are consistently ranked among the topuniversities internationally.

TheRole

The College of Engineering (CoE)is looking for Assistant Director, Finance. The incumbent plays aninstrumental role in establishing and maintaining finance businesspartnerships with stakeholders in the Engineering schools, andadministrative units. The partnership is vital to enable and ensureeffective finance planning, reporting, and operations in alignmentwith the University's policies and guidelines, as well asoverseeing critical functions within the College like procurement,asset management, and internal controls, upholding rigorousadherence to the University's financial policies and guidelines.The scope straddles across College's, Schools', self-financingoperations and research finance.

This role isresponsible for planning and executing the implementation offinance initiatives and targets to help achieve the goals of theCollege in alignment with University's strategic objectives. Itincludes financial planning, budget monitoring and reporting,ensuring governance and compliance, and coordinating operationalactivities related to specific objectives of the College andUniversity.

The role will have reporting linesto both the College of Engineering and Office ofFinance.

Responsibilities

  • Manageall aspects of the college's budgeting, planning and forecastingactivities.
  • Prepare budget templates and ensuretimely submission of budget data.
  • Monitorbudget execution and utilization. Perform evaluation on budgetutilization and performance to facilitate decision making overprioritization and strategy.
  • Conductdecision-support analyses that provides real-time and accuratefinancial information draws insights from such analyses to makerecommendations to the college leadership and relevant financestakeholders.
  • Prepare key financial data toDean / CoE's leadership on financial health of the College andSchools (Self-financing program performance, budget utilization,key commitments on the overhead, etc).
  • Managebudget appeal, budget virement and other budgetmatters.
  • Monitoring budget spending fromresearch grants.
  • Work with HR to monitorexpenditures for staffing in the College ofEngineering.

Requirements

  • Degreein Accountancy / Finance or equivalent professionalqualifications.
  • Experience in financialmanagement, preferably within higher education or a similarlycomplex organization.
  • Highlyadaptable.
  • Good time management, analytical andproblem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability tocollaborate across diverse teams and manage relationships withmultiple stakeholders.
  • Leadership andcommunication abilities, with a proven record of managing anddeveloping teams.
  • Advantageous to know SAP,TREX, Ariba.
  • We regretthat only shortlisted candidates will benotified.

    Hiring Institution : NTU