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Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Prepare monthly Opex closing, reporting, and management presentations.
Conduct cost allocation and manage shared service computations.
Analyze variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) and provide insightful cost management slides for Management Committee meetings.
Budgeting, Forecasting and Flash Process and Governance
Coordinate and consolidate bankwide annual budget and quarterly forecast exercises, ensuring strict alignment with Group strategic cost-reduction mandates and headcount limits.
Manage the Month-End Flash (MEF), provide accurate validation of late adjustments, accrual reversals, and opex recovery entries.
Capex and Project Governance & Support
Track and evaluate Capital Expenditure Requests (CER), ensuring strict policy compliance.
Manage capital commitment reports, depreciation projections, and Capex budget submissions.
Perform Post-Project Implementation Reviews (PPIR) to validate ROI against targets.
Serve as secretariat for the Tender Review Committee (TRC) and Capital Expenditure Request Committee (CERC).
Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project delivery remains on track.
Involve in the system development and enhancement for Finance Projects
System Administration
Maintain and optimize Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems.
Resolve ERP & EPM technical issues and support system users to ensure operational continuity.
Strategic Cost Management & Cost Optimization
Monitor initiatives to track realized cost savings and ensure alignment with bankwide profitability targets.
Collaborate with business units to execute cost-cutting mandates and optimize expenditures.
AI Initiatives & Digital Transformation
Collaborate with IT and business units to evaluate and integrate AI solutions for workflow optimization within the Finance division.
Monitor the financial impact and ROI of AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with the bank’s digital transformation roadmap and cost-reduction mandates.
Job Requirements
Education & Experience
Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related quantitative discipline. Professional qualifications (e.g., MIA, ACCA, CPA) are a strong plus.
Experience: Minimum of 4-5 years of progressive experience in performance management, management reporting or strategic financial analysis. Candidates from Big 4 or established audit firms are highly encouraged to apply. We value a strong foundation in financial analysis, exceptional data-storytelling abilities, and a proven track record of delivering insights to senior leadership, regardless of your industry background.
About Hong Leong Bank
We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage. Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach in making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.
We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organisation. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitising the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organisation.
Realise your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related quantitative discipline
- Professional qualifications such as MIA, ACCA, CPA
- Minimum 4-5 years progressive experience in performance management, management reporting or strategic financial analysis
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, month-end flash and variance analysis
- Experience managing Capex processes including CER tracking, depreciation projections and post-project implementation reviews
- Experience maintaining and optimizing ERP and EPM systems and supporting system users
- Ability to collaborate with IT on AI initiatives and evaluate financial impact/ROI of digital transformation
- Strong financial analysis, data storytelling and presentation skills for senior leadership
- Experience at Big 4 or established audit firm
What We Do
Hong Leong Bank Berhad is one of the leading financial services organisations in Malaysia. With a heritage of more than 100 years, it provides comprehensive financial services covering consumer banking, business banking and trade finance, treasury, branch and transaction banking, wealth management, private banking and Islamic financial services. Its merger with EON Bank Group in 2011 has further embedded its position as a core banking franchise with an expanded distribution network of more than 300 branches across the country. With a proven track record in value creation and a highly recognised brand, Hong Leong Bank has also been extending its footprint in the region, with branches in Singapore and Hong Kong and wholly owned subsidiaries in Vietnam and Cambodia. In China, the Bank has a 20% shareholding in Bank of Chengdu Co., Ltd., Sichuan and a consumer finance joint venture. Hong Leong Bank is a subsidiary of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad, the financial services arm of the Hong Leong Group. Apart from banking, Hong Leong Financial Group is involved in the provision of insurance and takaful, as well as investment banking, unit trust, fund management and stock broking services
