Finance Planning Leader

Requisition Number: 204805

External Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership to the Greater China (GCA) finance and finance operations team with a focus on strong fiscal stewardship of the business and the provision of financial insights to inform key business decisions
• Responsible for oversight, management, audit, and compliance of financial processes for GCA
• Work with the Consulting business to produce the monthly Outlook ensuring the accuracy, integrity and feasibility of these. Consolidate GCA Outlooks, analyse and explain variances, prepare the P&L, identify risks/upsides and submit the final committed GCA Outlook to the Consulting business leadership team
• Manage the day to day GCA Consulting business through a financial lens ensuring continued analysis, identification and mitigation of business risks
• Contribute to improvements in the overall productivity and profitability of the Consulting business through performance analysis supported with recommendations for the GCA leaders
• Drive the annual planning process for GCA Consulting Services implementing the measures by which the Consulting business will be managed i.e. revenue growth, target billability, headcount growth etc
• Assist in the deployment, and customization of global processes, systems, tools, and metrics to facilitate management of the Consulting business
• Continual promotion of Teradata ethics and compliance by working with Consulting business management and supporting operational reviews, audits, process reviews and compliance audits and implementing recommendations based on findings from these audits
• Train, mentor, and assist business operations teams and Consulting management with implementing standard Consulting operating practices
• Manage the business operations team across GCA

Experience/Skills Requirements

• Qualified Accountant (PQE, CIMA preferred) with a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in an analytical role such as business operations and/or sales operations
• 5+ years’ experience of coaching, mentoring and leading business operations teams
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build relationships with people in an open, friendly, accepting manner
• Comprehensive knowledge of US GAAP, ASC 606/IFRS 15 and POC (Percentage of Completion) principles.
• Ability to operate in an environment with a level of grey with large amounts of data and multiple data points
• Experience in a consulting or professional services organisation
• Advanced Excel skills including complex lookups and pivot tables
• Experience of reporting in a multi-currency environment
• Able to work well under pressure and to very tight deadlines
• Results oriented, conveying a sense of urgency and driving issues to closure
• Significant experience building budgets and forecasts and stress testing through sensitivity analysis
• FP&A experience
• Experience of business process re-engineering
• Experience with FinancialForce, Changepoint or other Accounting, Billing, Professional Services Automation (PSA), Revenue recognition, and Human Capital Management (HCM) tools
• Experience using BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau etc

Education

• Preference for candidates with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Anyone who is interested in this role, pls send your resume to kathleen.du@teradata.com, thank you.

CountryEEOText_Description:

City: BEIJING

State: Beijing Shi

Community / Marketing Title: Finance Planning Leader

Job Category: Finance

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