Senior Manager, Office of Finance - D07 Golden Mile, Middle Road, SG

Roles & Responsibilities

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Management Reporting - Improve the governance and reporting of financials for compliance
• Review the financials of the SOCIs monthly to ensure accuracy, completeness, and appropriate presentation.
• Prepare standardised regular financial performance reports and provide insightful analysis to the variances.
• Evaluate the financial performance with relevant stakeholders to determine any actions to be taken.
• Design effective operational and strategic reports that can be adopted and managed by the SOCIs.
• Provide training to the SOCI's management team (e.g. HODs, Assistant Deans, Budget co-ordinators).
• Planning & Analysis - Act as a business advisor to the SVP Admin and HODs on financial control of the SOCI by generating financial analysis, insight and recommendations for future planning and alignment to LTFM
• Overall budget lead to facilitate the budget submission process and managing budget timelines.
• Critically assess and facilitate overall SOCI budget & forecast submissions.
• Identify and provide guidance on financial opportunities and risks to the contribution margin.
• Contribute to building business cases for new strategic initiatives and support SOCIs with their policies and implementation.
• Communication - Be the first point of contact for the SOCI on all financial matters; and for OFIN on all SOCI's matters
• Enhance awareness and adherence to financial policies.
• Build strong, effective relationships across SOCIs to ensure their needs are addressed.
• Process Improvement - Continuously evaluate policies and procedures to ensure optimization
• Align and streamline processes within and across SOCIs to achieve consistency and efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Candidates who do not possess the stipulated qualifications but have relevant work experience may still apply. Remuneration and appointment terms shall commensurate with qualifications and experience. SMU reserves the right to modify the appointment terms where necessary.

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