Finance Manager - Emerging Markets & Other

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses makes a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business, and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organization.

SEEK has a global presence (including Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Mexico), with exposure to over 2.9 billion people and approximately 27 percent of global GDP. SEEK is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, where it is a top 100 company and has been listed in the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies by Forbes.  SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to be named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Place to Work 2023 In Tech (third year in a row).

SEEK is present in Asia through JobStreet and JobsDB, two leading career platforms, with a presence across Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Our Culture

At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued, talented, and diverse individuals who really know their stuff. Our culture statement, Our SEEK, is all about what makes SEEK unique and a little bit different. Our SEEK clearly outlines the Principles and the Behaviours of our best people, which include:

• Passion: we are passionate about SEEK, our purpose, our customers and our community
• Team: we care about each other and collaborate to achieve together
• Delivery: we execute with excellence and achieve great results
• Future: we think and act for the long term

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Finance – Revenue, the Finance Manager role will be responsible for all Revenue FBP tasks across the Asia emerging markets and proving revenue expertise to the FBPs responsible for our adjacent business portfolios. Key responsibilities include revenue management, management reporting, financial planning and analysis, providing insightful and actionable financial guidance to support our ambitious growth and profitability goals.

You will also serve as a trusted business partner, collaborating effectively with various business functions and country finance teams across Asia. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of financial management principles, and a proven track record of driving process improvements.

Reporting

• Ownership of the month end reporting cycle for the relevant portfolios, including the delivery of management reporting to key senior stakeholders
• Analyse results and deliver insight - analysing monthly results and reporting key insights, risks and opportunities
• Contribute to external reporting - own and deliver financial information included in the bi-annual statutory and investor relations reporting 
• Drive continuous improvements to processes and reporting

 

Budgeting/forecasting

• Drive the revenue planning cycle for the applicable Asia markets - ownership of the forecasting and planning cycle, providing in-depth analysis of key drivers and identifying material risks and opportunities
• Analyse high volumes of data - proactively query and analyse data, identify trends and gaps, model the impact of alternative scenarios and make recommendations to leaders to assist with the decision-making processes
• Contribute to external reporting - own and deliver financial information included in the bi-annual statutory and investor relations reporting 
• Drive improvements to the forecasting process including the implementation of a new rolling forecast model

 

Business partnering / APAC initaitves

• Support strategic planning and execution – assist senior leaders and their management teams in making decisions by preparing ad hoc analysts as required
• Be a trusted revenue expert to ensure revenue planning, reporting and analytics for the adjacent business portfolios are compliant and aligned with the appropriate frameworks
• Support the Senior Manager – Revenue with all business partnering activities aligned to the achievement of strategic objectives
• Collaborate with the APAC BAU lead and the Senior Manager – Revenue to implement consistent reporting/forecasting/processes across the APAC region
• Support the Senior Manager – Revenue to ensure alignment in the treatment/reporting of new products across APAC as they are rolled out over time

The successful candidate will have:

• CA/CPA qualified (or equivalent) with at least 5+ years of post-qualification experience
• Experience within a commercial finance function with responsibilities covering regular management reporting, financial planning and analysis and business partnering
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, to build day to day finance processes from scratch and continually improve the support provided to the senior leaders you partner with
• Expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis
• Flexibility to adapt to constantly changing environments including ability to work well under pressure with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a cross-location team
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.Engaging and objective-minded personality
• Business & financial analysis, report writing, MS PowerPoint & Excel. Additionally, a strong understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and data visualization tools would be beneficial to further enhance process automation, data analysis, and reporting capabilities.

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with a diverse group of backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable approach but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.