Senior Finance Analyst

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be a graduate of BS Accounting.
• Must be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Preferably CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).
• Expert in group financial planning and consolidation as well as project financial analysis and evaluation, valuation, and other finance studies.
• With at least 3 to 5 years of experience in the field.
• Can develop and maintain in-depth financial models on diverse subsidiaries and consolidation.
• Can write extensive investment analysis, feasibility studies, other capital structure analysis reports and presentations.
• Well adept in Corporate Management reporting, trustworthy and keep confidential informations.
• Has excellent communication skills.

Job Overview:

Management Reporting

• Continue to assist the SMC Group Corporate Finance Officer (CFO) in presenting to SMC Board the quarterly financial results as well as the monthly estimates.
• Continue to support the Investor Relations group in Business Monthly Operation Reports (MOR) review.
• Continue to assist management in the review of financial performance of the computation of Annual Incentive plans (AIP) and Business Performance Review (BPB).
• Implement the BPV system Phase 1a (P&L and capex management reporting) improving the speed and quality of monthly and quarterly management reports.
• Improve on the capex update reporting with use of the automated AACE system as well as the CAPEX dashboard system.
• Develop BPC system Phase 2 (CSU budgeting) and Phase 1b (full FS Management reporting with integration with legal SAP BPC Data).

Budgeting/LRP Process

• Continue to oversee SMC group short term (budget) and long term (LRP) financial plan process (call to budget, review and release of budget assumptions, coordination with the BUs, timelines, review, consolidation and presentation to the SMC Board).
• Provide management with Financial Highlights and Analysis of business budgets and LRP before the business budget & LRP presentation.

Financial Modelling

• Develop, improve and maintain business financial models for all major subsidiaries.
• Standardize inputs for the efficient update of business financial models with the latest available estimates and/or actual and provide internal and external clients with their SMC group financial projection needs on a regular basis (quarterly).
• Standardize regular reports or outputs from the financial models including but not limited to quarterly update of business and SMC group projected Financial Statements, By Business Financial Highlights and Analysis, ratios and covenant monitoring, sensitivity runs, base/best/worst case scenarios, stress tests, cash flow planning, dividend maximization, valuation, WACC/RRR annual review, capital optimization and allocation.

Corporate Finance Strategy

• Key support for OTP and management for corporate strategy and analyses needs relating but not limited to financial analysis and presentation, studies and recommendations.
• Key strategic analysis relating to returns, risks, sensitivity analyses.
• Capital structure management - strategic analyses, studies and recommendations on financing, investing, dividend maximization, etc.
• RRR and WACC setting, review and monitoring.
• Valuation review and management.

Project Evaluation and Monitoring

• Implement automated AACE system and observe the agreed service level agreement.
• Conduct feasibility studies on special projects relating to overall financial and strategic impact to SMC.
• Provide management with comprehensive financial evaluation (financial review, feasibility studies, risk analysis, value creation validation) for all SMC group's expansion projects and/or operation improvement projects.
• Provide financial verification of SMC Group AACE's requiring Office of the President (OTP)'s approval through office of the CFO.