Financial Senior Specialist

We're looking for a Senior Financial Specialist to join our Asia Finance Controllers' team at MBPS. In this role, you are expected to be accountable for the migration of financial processes within Asia territories as part of the Asia Finance Transformation project within Manulife Business Processing Services ("MBPS") and for the maintenance of trust with our customers.

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Key Responsibilities:

• The job holder will be allocated with Finance processes not limited to: Operations, Accounting Operations, Reconciliation and Management Reporting.

• The job holder will be given processes that will be subject to his/her review on top of his/her daily, monthly production work. It will be part of her responsibility to monitor junior team members work, ensure error-free submission and be accountable for the processes subject to his/her review.

• The job holder is responsible to train junior team members of the processes already migrated. Ensure complete transfer of knowledge through theoretical training, reverse shadowing, and guide the team members from parallel run to go-live.

• Reporting directly to Asia Finance Controllers – SSC, Team Leader, the Senior Finance Specialist is primarily accountable for general accounting and reporting through timely and accurate service delivery.

• The job holder is responsible in driving automation initiatives on processes handled by his/her assigned Business unit with the goal of improving accuracy and overall cost efficiency of the team.

Required Qualifications:

• CPA (preferred) with university degree in accounting, finance, or financial management.
• 5+ years of working experience with progressive responsibility within the Accounting and management reporting field at least 3 of which is with an international organization or Shared Service Center.
• Hybrid Work Arrangement: 3 days onsite, 2 days working from home. Amenability and readiness to work onsite and from home anytime (dependent on business need AND/OR current external environment/situation)

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environment and adapt to change while managing time and workload with aggressive timelines.
• Preferably with process migration background
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across cultures. Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of Excel (i.e. mastery of excel formulas and pivot tables is a must; VBA is a plus). Proficient in MS Office suite including Outlook, Word, Power Point.
• Willling to work on dayshift and overtime may be required to meet business deadlines.

When you join our team:

• We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see

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Working Arrangement

Hybrid