Strategic Finance Manager
Animoca Brands
Accounting & Finance
Hong Kong
Posted on Nov 20, 2024
As the Strategic Finance Manager, you will lead group-level financial budgeting processes encompassing operating, advisory, investment, and trading businesses. In addition to financial forecasting and analysis, you will handle various Investor Relations activities, portfolio management in multiple subsidiaries, and group-level financial transformation tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Lead financial budgeting process, coordinating with responsible businesses to align group-level initiatives with local strategies, help identify risks and opportunities, evaluate ROIs of various projects, and prioritize investments
- Be an expert at building financial models and provide data analytics to better understand business conditions, and evaluate the economic implications and trade-offs of various business actions
- Be the trusted partner of subsidiaries and group-level businesses by highlighting performance trends and causes of unexpected variances
- Analyse financial performance from various angles – by products, by channels, and by partners and help the business take proactive actions to scale the business and improve profitability
- Actively provide decision support through continued monitoring of business drivers, industry trends, and competitor benchmarking/analysis
- Periodically and on an ad-hoc basis, provide various financial analysis reports to senior management to facilitate business decision-making
- Drive continuous improvement of an overall finance function to drive innovation/automation in reporting, planning, and analysis
- Handle various Investor Relations activities by circulating periodic reports to major investors, and following up on their Q&As
- Take in part in strategic initiatives such as M&A and fundraising activities, including building valuation models, handling due diligence, and being engaged in various strategic discussions
Requirements:
- More than 5 years of work experience in similar roles (FP&A, Corp Dev, IB, strategy/consulting, etc.)
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance. Master/MBA is a plus
- Strong quantitative and effective communication skills
- Motivated self-starter with an entrepreneurship mindset
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity and set up best practices