Senior Finance Manager

About Our Team
Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. For more than 140 years, we've helped advance science and healthcare to advance human progress, and that same mission drives us today. We are part of RELX, a FTSE 10 company and global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. We are seeking a talented and strategic Senior Finance Manager to partner with our dynamic team.

Our team is responsible for the on time collection of outstanding balances.

About The Role
The Senior Finance Manager will play a crucial role partnering with the President, Greater China, and their wider team to provide financial decision support and governance over the financials of the region. This $400m business is driving strong growth across all customer segments and is also looking at innovative projects including partnering with Government initiatives to deliver new avenues of growth.

Whilst reporting to the CFO of Academic & Government, the role has very close liaison with the Finance Director Corporate Markets and VP Finance Health Markets.

Responsibilities

• Monthly Reporting: Delivered on time and to a high standard, providing insightful variance analysis to both latest forecast/Budget and prior year enabling both regional reporting and local understanding including effective management of revenue and/or cost variances
• Budgeting/Reforecasting: Manage quarterly process ensuring enough time for local review without over-extending. Working with the APAC region ensuring two-way understanding of market dynamics, targeting and management of regional risks and opportunities
• Decision Support: Provide insight and challenge to senior management ensuring risks are fully understood and mitigated where possible and likewise opportunities are highlighted and pursued
• Sustainable Revenue Growth: Supporting the Go to Market teams (in alignment with sales operations) across pricing, deal terms, targeting, sales compensation, territory planning etc.
• Operational Effectiveness: Continually evaluate the deployment of resources and how they align with organizational priorities, proposing changes where relevant. Champion AI tools internally, including assessing productivity gains and potential for resource redeployment
• Financial governance and effective control: Close collaboration with Global Finance Shared Services and Centres of Excellence to ensure appropriate control environments are in place, including systems/procedures outside of finance e.g. Sales. Liaise with Internal and External Auditors as appropriate leading to clean audit reports
• Liaison with wider Finance teams: Develop close relationships with other finance teams providing shared services as well as technology and operations support ensuring the finance needs of the Greater China team and business are met holistically
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, e.g. product and technology to ensure successful execution and scaling of initiatives
• People Development: As well as managing a direct team member, as a key member of the Greater China management team, identify and nurture talent helping individuals towards achieving their own individual career goals
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate performance, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment across the wider organization

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field required; MBA and/or certifications, i.e. CIMA, CFA or CPA preferred or equivalent
• 10+ years demonstrated successful and progressive financial analysis and reporting experience, preferably within large organisations with complex products & solutions
• Fluency in English
• Demonstrable experience of driving strategy and planning initiatives
• Advanced computer skills including spreadsheets, query and databases with in-depth understanding of financial systems and software; prefer Oracle and Hyperion Smartview
• Demonstrated leadership, to get results through others, maintain executive relationships, work cooperatively in a team environment and influence across a matrix organization
• Executive level communication, presentation and influencing skills
• Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level
• Demonstrated success in performance management; includes holding people accountable for clearly set standards and objectives, giving explicit direction regarding performance expectation and acting to address performance through effective coaching, training and performance management
• Working Arrangement: Hybrid – 1 day a week in office, minimum travel within region

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working For You
"We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Medical and Life Insurance: Coverage for Medical and life risk.

• Long-Service Award: Recognition for loyalty and dedication.
• Marriage and New Baby Gifts: Celebratory tokens for special life events.
• Festivals and Birthday Gifts: Spreading joy on occasions that matter.
• Annual Medical Check-up: Prioritizing employee well-being through regular health check-ups.
• Flexible Benefits via CIIC Platform: Personalized benefits accessible through a user-friendly platform.
• Paid Time Off: Annual Leave, Flex Family Care Leave, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave, Medical and Hospitalization Leave, Examination Leave Gazetted Public Holiday.
• Family Care leave (Maternity/Paternity Leave and Adoption Leave).

About The Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.