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Manager, Group Investment Accounting (IDR)

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About FWD Group
FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business with more than 12 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world. The company was established in 2013 and is focused on changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD’s customer-led and digitally enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience.
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FWD Technology and Innovation Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., known as FWD TIM, was established in late 2019. Strategically located in Kuala Lumpur, FWD TIM serves as a pivotal shared service location within FWD Group, providing services to multiple markets across the Group. FWD TIM houses a diverse and talented workforce focused on essential business and technology services such as information security, cloud operations, IT solutions delivery, digital and data, actuarial, finance, investments, and customer service, among many others. FWD TIM is dedicated to drive and deliver operational excellence and efficiency, foster innovation and ensure regulatory compliance across all business functions as well as maintain a competitive edge in the market.
PURPOSE
  • Reporting to the Senior Manager, this position will be accountable to drive the on-going development and maintenance of the Group Investment Data Repository (IDR).
  • Responsible for ensuring robust data governance practices are in place, identifying critical data elements and enhancing the quality of the IDR.
  • Provides leadership and supervisory responsibility for day-to-day IDR activities and key initiatives.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
  • Manage the daily, monthly and quarterly IDR processes ensuring HFM disclosures, ECL calculations, and manual updates of investment holdings are executed timely and accurately.
  • Coordinate with Business Units to understand and analyze business requirements for any changes to the IDR.
  • Identify improvement areas and recommend enhancements in consultation with Group Investment Accounting or Group Reporting teams.
  • Perform and provide assessment and gap analysis on existing and desired system requirements and capabilities, evaluate the impact and manage the system change process.
  • Develop options and recommend solutions to meet business requirements, document the business requirements and translate requirements into system logic working with Group IT colleagues.
  • Effectively communicate requirements to system developers based on the business requirements.
  • Execute functional testing of requirements and manage overall delivery of business solutions, including UAT review, implementation monitoring, knowledge transfer and provision of post-implementation support to ensure proper implementation.
  • Provide ongoing support on SIT and UAT review, including troubleshooting & issues resolution.
  • Develop and implement effective solutions for data quality issues in the IDR and ensure data validation checks and controls are in place to ensure accuracy and completeness of data inputs.
  • Understand changes to the investment accounting system and analyze the impact, if any, on the IDR.
  • Review documentation for all standard operating procedures related to IDR and its processes.
  • Lead and coordinate user training sessions for new processes related to the IDR.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
  • Monthly & Quarterly IDR close completed within group defined SLAs time horizons.
  • Group-wide IDR support completed to agreed SLAs.
  • Able to prioritize tasks and demonstrate ability to work with details.
  • Support other team members for completion of ad-hoc requests, special projects, and other duties as needed.
EXTERNAL & INTERNAL CONTACTS
Internal:
  • Group Investment Accounting Team.
  • Local BUs Investment Accounting Teams.
  • Group & Local Investment Teams.
  • Group & Local Finance Teams.
  • Group Information Technology Team.
External:
  • Clearwater Analytics.
  • Bloomberg.
  • 3rd Party Vendors.
  • 3rd Party Asset Managers.
DECISION MAKING
  • Recommend appropriate solutions to resolve IDR issues.
QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE
  • University degree in Accounting/Finance/Information System or related fields.
  • Prior experience as a Business Analyst is required.
  • Experience of maintaining and running a database from a business perspective is required.
  • 7+ years of working experience in business analyst roles, preferably in the insurance industry.
KNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Business Knowledge
  • Solid knowledge of investment products including both accounting and investment characteristics.
  • Proven ability to prioritize and drive deliverables to completion.
  • Knowledge of investment accounting fundamentals is an advantage.
  • Proven ability to prioritize and drive deliverables to completion.
  • Strong business analysis skills able to translate business requirements to functional specification is required.
Technical Skills
  • Strong analytical and Excel skills
  • Experience with Alteryx and Power BI is preferred.
  • Knowledge in Robotic Processing Automation and Artificial Intelligence tools in the market.
Management Skills
  • Clarity in communication and being an active listener.
  • Provide constructive feedback and build a high performing team.
  • Being empathic with a desire to help others.
COMPETENCIES
  • Able to work independently or as part of a team.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Good command of both spoken and written English.
  • Understanding inter-dependencies and inter-connections of systems; seeing the big picture rather than the parts.
  • Ability to work under pressure and in a rapidly changing environment
  • Learning from mistakes and desire to improve.