FP&A Sr. Advisor

Selangor, Malaysia


Job Family Group:

Finance


Worker Type:

Regular


Posting Start Date:

September 14, 2026


Business Unit:

Finance


Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals


Job Description:

The FP&A Sr. Advisor is accountable for enabling high-quality business decisions through robust planning, performance management,

appraisal, forecasting and decision ready insight generation. The role acts as a strategic finance partner to business and finance leadership, translating commercial drivers, operational performance, risks and opportunities into clear financial insights and actionable interventions.

The role is expected to strengthen decision quality, drive value delivery, maintain financial discipline and accelerate the shift from reporting to providing forward-looking decision ready insights through data, digital and analytics-enabled ways of working.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead integrated planning and forecasting: Own and coordinate planning, latest estimate and appraisal processes, ensuring assumptions, financial outcomes and business drivers are transparent, consistent and aligned with business strategy.

  • Drive performance management: Monitor financial and operational performance against targets/benchmarks, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support timely interventions to drive competitive performance.

  • Provide business appraisal and decision support: Apply value and risk lenses to investment, portfolio, commercial and operational decisions, ensuring options are evaluated with sound financial logic and business judgement.

  • Generate actionable options and recommendations: Leverage automated analytics dashboards to convert data, trends and scenarios into clear options, decision-ready recommendations and practical interventions that support senior leadership decision-making.

  • Strengthen financial discipline and controls: Ensure planning, reporting and appraisal activities comply with governance, control, assurance and financial reporting requirements.

  • Partner across the business: Build trusted relationships with business leaders, finance colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, challenge constructively and influence better decisions.

  • Enable digital and analytics transformation: Champion automation, self-service reporting, driver-based modelling, scenario planning and predictive analytics to improve speed, quality and efficiency of finance delivery.

  • Develop capability and talent: Coach and develop team members, build future-ready FP&A capabilities and foster a learner mindset across business partnering, data, digital, analytics and process excellence.

  • Transformation & Continuous Improvement: Drive simplification, automation, digitisation and process improvement across planning & appraisal activities, leveraging technology, analytics and AI-enabled tools where appropriate.

  • AI-enabled FP&A governance and decision support: Review, interpret and leverage outputs from AI-enabled tools to deliver high-quality FP&A support, ensuring insights, forecasts and recommendations are grounded in robust assumptions, strong data integrity, sound judgement and disciplined AI risk management and governance.

Required Skills and Capabilities

  • Business partnering and commercial acumen: Ability to understand value drivers, business models, market dynamics and operational levers, and convert them into practical financial advice.

  • Financial performance management: Strong capability in KPI design, target setting, variance analysis, forecasting, performance appraisal and intervention planning.

  • Planning and financial decision-making: Ability to coordinate business planning, translate strategy into financial targets and link plans to milestones, actions and measurable outcomes.

  • Financial modelling and scenario analysis: Experience in driver-based modelling, sensitivity & scenario analysis, risk and opportunity framing, business cases and investment appraisal.

  • Data analytics and insights: Ability to validate, analyse and interpret data; identify patterns and trends; and generate insights that answer business questions and improve decision quality.

  • Data management and digital acumen: Understanding of data quality, governance, reporting automation, dashboarding, analytics tools and digital solutions that improve finance processes with ability to work with AI.

  • Storytelling and strategic executive communication: Ability to convert complex analysis into clear, concise and compelling messages for senior stakeholders, including recommendations and decision asks.

  • Process excellence and continuous improvement: Ability to simplify, standardise and improve finance processes while maintaining governance, control and operational discipline.

  • Stakeholder management and influencing: Ability to build trust, challenge constructively, navigate ambiguity and influence outcomes across functions, geographies and leadership levels.

  • Change leadership: Ability to lead through transformation, adopt new ways of working, build engagement and embed sustainable improvements.

Leadership Expectations

  • Operate as a trusted finance advisor and strategic co-pilot to the business.

  • Demonstrate courage to challenge assumptions, surface risks and recommend value-accretive actions.

  • Lead with clarity, accountability and care, enabling a high-performing and inclusive team environment.

  • Build capability by coaching others, sharing best practices and contributing to communities of practice.

  • Balance enterprise value, risk, controls and business pragmatism in decision support.

  • Role-model learner mindset, digital curiosity and adaptability in a fast-evolving finance environment.

Experience and Qualifications

  • Minimum of 10 years of significant experience in financial planning, business appraisal, performance management, business finance, or related finance functions.

  • Proven track record of partnering with senior business stakeholders to influence decisions and deliver measurable business outcomes.

  • Strong understanding of financial statements, value drivers, planning cycles, forecasting, business case development and performance reporting.

  • Experience leading teams or influencing cross-functional delivery through matrixed ways of working.

  • Experience with digital finance tools, data visualisation, automation, analytics or driver-based planning solutions is highly desirable.

  • Professional finance qualification, accounting qualification, MBA or relevant business/finance degree preferred.

Success Measures

  • Timely, accurate and value-adding delivery of planning, LE, appraisal and performance management cycles.

  • Improved decision quality through clear insights, robust scenarios and transparent assumptions.

  • Visible business impact from interventions, performance actions and value/risk-based recommendations.

  • Increased efficiency and effectiveness through simplification, automation and digital adoption.

  • Strong stakeholder confidence in finance advice, analysis and governance.

  • Improved team capability across business partnering, data, digital, analytics, insights, decision quality and process excellence.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance leader who combines strong FP&A fundamentals with curiosity, digital fluency and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. They are comfortable operating in ambiguity, translating complex business information into clear recommendations, and leading teams through change. They bring a disciplined focus on value, risk, controls and performance, while continuously partnering with business to enable competitive decision quality, business strategy & performance.

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