Job Description

Finance Business Partner
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 2,100 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
Palladium is part of GISI's Consulting Group, which aims to create solutions for the world's most complex challenges. With annual revenues of $14 billion, GISI's approximately 15,000 employees are engaged in projects across 100 countries worldwide providing construction, program/project management, and engineering consulting services.
This Opportunity:
As a Finance Business Partner at Palladium, you will have prime responsibility for the financial management of a portfolio of projects, which will include being the key contact point for the Project Management Unit (PMU) for the provision of accurate budget actuals and forecast reporting for both the individual projects, as well as your consolidated portfolio of projects.
Location:
The position is based out of Malaysia, within our Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Please note that applicants must have the right to work in the Philippines, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Reporting Lines:
This role will report into the Finance Business Partners Manager, APAC.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities include:

• Creation, and ongoing maintenance, of structural / coding elements for the projects within financial and reporting systems (e.g. Chart of accounts, project accounting structures, timesheet mapping)
• Creation, and the ongoing updating, of revenue schedules for each project ensuring high level of accuracy of revenue recognition in compliance with group policies and procedures
• Regular review, approval and processing of client invoices / billing within financial systems
• Reconciliation, and timely clearance of outstanding items, relating to Work-in Progress / Unbilled Revenue
• Ensuring cost forecast for all projects are accurate and up to date on a regular basis
• Provide support to the PMUs with all financial and compliance matters including liaising with Accounts Payable and Payroll/timesheets when required
• Ensuring project team is preparing, lodging and recording all locally required regulatory returns relating to oncosts and taxes, including employment, goods and services (or equivalent), withholding taxes.

Essential Criteria:
The Finance Business Partner will have prior experience working in Finance in a similar role, or working on the financial management of projects, or a portfolio of projects. They will bring excellent MS Excel skills and are comfortable navigating complex systems and implementing process improvements and best practices.
Additional key requirements include:

• Familiarity with working in a project-based setting
• Collaborative and deadline-driven, with a strong sense of timing
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail, especially in matrixed environments
• Proactive in setting priorities and driving tasks to completion
• Skilled at explaining financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
• Ideally pursuing a qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, or CIMA
• Experience with government-funded initiatives is advantageous
• Background in audit is highly regarded
• Previous experience managing small teams is highly regarded

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

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