Manager, Finance (Management Reporting & Analysis)

ING Bank

ING Bank covers Wholesale and Retail Banking in Asia Pacific. Our Wholesale Banking business is present and active in 11 major economies in the Asia Pacific, namely Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Asia is an important growth region for ING and the bank has unique strategic opportunities to tap into the Asian banking market.

Your Role

As part of the Finance Business Advice team (Strategic MI, Cost and Business Supports), you will support the regional financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes, provide financial analytical support and work closely with various stakeholders across APAC Wholesale Bank. You will support the forecasting process as well as for monthly and quarterly financial performance analysis and reporting. In addition, you will participate in Finance and business projects to improve results and processes.

You are strongly result-oriented, have sound knowledge in Wholesale banking products and experience working in complex matrix reporting environment. You are detailed orientated yet capable of approaching issues from both analytical and strategic perspective. You are independent, like to work on multiple tasks with strong stakeholder management capabilities.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Performance management: You will provide financial management reporting for the APAC franchise, and are responsible for providing data transparency and challenge to help drive business performance returns
• Budgeting and Forecasting: You will coordinate and support the rolling forecasts and budgeting exercises for the APAC region
• Expense Management: Analyse expenses with insightful analysis on actuals vs budget variance, and ability to forecast expenses with comprehensive knowledge of expenses to be incurred
• Strategic projects: You will actively participate on Finance innovation projects with the goal to standardize and streamline processes, and improve the quality of management information distributed across Asia.

Who are we looking for, your profile & competencies:

You are motivated to support our (internal) customers, curious to understand the details of the fast-changing financial sector and an innovative player who can use latest insights to further develop our business model, people and processes. You have a natural healthy dose of organisational sensitivity and are able to combine different perspectives and areas of expertise to propose the optimal solution.

You are flexible in delivering routine and ad-hoc requests and have strong communication skills. You are a team player with excellent collaboration skills who is critical (in a positive sense) of her / his own performance and that of others.

You recognise yourself in the values of ING, it's evident for you that your behaviour is fully aligned with the Orange Code. Find more information on: http://www.ing.jobs/Nederland/Over-ING/Ook-dit-is-ING/ING-Waarden.htmYou

In addition, you have:

• Minimum 6-8 years of relevant working experience;
• Experience working in teams, with strong knowledge of FP&A processes particularly in Expense management
• Strong analytical, problem solving, project management skills with demonstrated proficiency in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong English written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Excel. Excel Macro, Tableau, PowerBI and Python working knowledge would be advantageous
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and collaborate across a cross-functional team and influence senior leaders.
• Strong team player, self-starter and motivator, capable of working independently with minimal supervision.
• Successful candidate will be results focused, with high energy, flexible and with good work prioritization skills.

Your Work Environment

Management Reporting & Advisory is the department responsible for providing financial reporting and forward-looking advice to the Asia Management Team. In this capacity the team is the linking pin between Finance and the other corporate departments and local ING entities. This includes maintaining the day-to-day relationship with these stakeholders and taking the ownership for implementing / maintaining the requirements leading to a FP&A process. This is a dynamic environment as requirements in financial and regulatory environment are continuously increasing.

Finance has a dynamic culture, characterised by open, direct and informal communication, with a focus on teamwork.