Senior Manager, Finance

The Finance Manager role provides end to end leadership for management sales reporting and Financial Planning and Analysis across Asia Regional Controllers, with primary focus on the Insurance business of Manulife. The role is accountable for overseeing financial consolidation, forecasting, and annual planning, while evaluating organizational and analytical needs and driving the development of technical and reporting solutions. 
Partnering closely with Regional Office and Asia Business Unit stakeholders, the Finance Manager ensures timely, accurate, and high quality financial deliverables, improves organizational efficiency, and applies expert financial judgment to resolve complex challenges and support effective decision making.

Position Responsibilities:

The Finance Manager role provides end‑to‑end leadership for management sales reporting and Financial Planning and Analysis across Asia Regional Controllers, with primary focus on the Insurance business of Manulife. The role is accountable for overseeing financial consolidation, forecasting, and annual planning, while evaluating organizational and analytical needs and driving the development of technical and reporting solutions. Partnering closely with Regional Office and Asia Business Unit stakeholders, the Finance Manager ensures timely, accurate, and high‑quality financial deliverables, improves organizational efficiency, and applies expert financial judgment to resolve complex challenges and support effective decision‑making.

Management Reporting

• Primarily responsible on the oversight and completion of end-to-end sales reporting process to ensure data integrity of Asia dashboards which are primarily used across all Asia markets, major distribution channels, and Senior Leadership Team.

• Perform first level periodic reporting review for both financial and non-financial sales metrics to enable better business decisions, manage the continuous evolution and delivery of management reporting.

• Work with stakeholders to identify reporting trends and highlight sales metrices that need management  attention aligning the Regional Office and Asia Division strategic goals.

• Responsible in managing the stakeholders, timely and effective communication, and escalation in cases of issues/delays in the reports, lead the root cause analysis and action planning in cases of incidents, and providing of timely and relevant updates to stakeholders on the status and progress of resolution of issues.

Operational Support

• Manage the teams’ day-to-day processes promoting efficiency and team effectiveness.

• Effectively review task allocation across team members, provide training and quality review and coaching for other team members to ensure process expertise and knowledge is sustained across the team. Ensure capacity management support through recommending and assigning tasks between team members and monitoring the required business deliverables.

• Ensure the delivery of excellent customer service by proactively promoting client centricity.

• Provide guidance, coaching and technical training to junior team members on building financial, analytical and soft skillsets

• Possess advanced business and technical skillset to support multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment,

• Demonstrate and provide guidance on using new technology to finance to cultivate tech savvy personnel and improve overall finance owned processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Required level of education -Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Accounting or Finance
• CPA and/or advanced degree highly preferred
• 8 to 10 years of related experience including solid understanding of financial reporting, project management skills and a proven ability to collaborate across functions within an organization
• Required years of experience – 5-10 years of financial analysis experience working at a senior level
• Specific experience required –used to working with senior management, Boards and legal departments
• Technical Skills - Proficiency in analysis and modeling
• Communication skills - Strong verbal and written skills, ability to present to large groups
• Industry Knowledge - strong knowledge of insurance operations and industry regulations and operations
• Experience working in financial institutions in a financial analysis/consulting role
• Strong computer skills and an expert proficiency using MS a must
• Ability to effectively translate business process steps to technology use cases and requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lead by example and build a reputation as a pragmatic problem solver who collaborates in a constructive manner to create iterative improvements for operational efficiencies within the position and across the broader organization
• Enable decision making by effectively analyzing business drivers and constraints and present alternative solutions to address problems and opportunities
• Proven problem solving and business/financial analysis skills, creative and resourceful in identifying issues and developing solutions
• Exceptional attention to detail with an ability to analyze data in a meaningful way
• Able to effectively articulate issues and trends to management
• Self-motivated, able to work independently with minimal supervision and in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment with a sense of urgency
• Demonstrates ability to coordinate complex process and projects
• Possess ability to create complex financial models
• Possesses strong ability to draft financial reporting narratives

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].

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