VP, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) | Global Bank, 1-year contract (Renewable)

Join a leading global bank as a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), VP on a 1-year contract - Renewable. This role will support the Head of FP&A in delivering high-quality management reporting, driving performance insights and forward-looking analysis including coordination of Country planning and forecasting cycles.

Principal responsibilities

Management Reporting and Performance Insights

• Produce monthly management reporting packs and provide executive-level performance commentary that highlights key drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Analyse financial and non-financial KPIs across revenue, costs, profitability, productivity and returns, translating results into clear insights and actions.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Business and Infrastructure teams to identify performance opportunities, emerging risks and required management actions.
• Support preparation of materials for Board and Management committee forums respond to regulatory or ad hoc information requests where required.
• Conduct external market and peer benchmarking analyses and translate findings into actionable insights to improve competitiveness and productivity.

Planning & forecasting

• Support the annual budgeting exercise and periodic forecasting processes for Singapore entity level.
• Coordinate financial submissions from business and functional units, ensuring consistency, accuracy and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year performance identify key drivers, emerging trends and areas requiring intervention.
• Develop forward-looking financial models to assess performance and support decision making.

Process improvement, automation & controls.

• Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, improve data quality, strengthen controls and reduce manual effort.
• Champion automation and advanced analytics (including approved AI-enabled tools) across FP&A processes to improve efficiency, forecasting accuracy and decision support.

Requirements

• University degree and/or professional qualification in the field of Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
• Proven experience of 5 - 8 years in FP&A, management reporting, forecasting and/or performance analytics within a large organization (financial services experience preferred).
• Strong understanding of P&L mechanics, balance sheet and MIS methodologies including funds transfer pricing, cost allocations, risk/return concepts and other performance measurement metrics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Able to apply sound judgement and challenge constructively on issues, assumptions and methodologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholder groups and build alignment across teams.
• Comfortable working with data and systems (e.g., Excel modelling MI/BI tools such as Power BI/Tableau), with a continuous improvement mindset.

Technical skills

• Experience and knowledge of TM1/Cognos reporting system (preferred)
• Knowledge of SQL (advanced), Python, Alteryx experience is an advantage.