Senior Director, Finance Enablement

3 weeks ago

Hong Kong, Central and Western District, Hong Kong SAR China Prudential plc Full time

At Prudential plc, we are committed to being partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose drives everything we do, creating a culture of diversity and inclusion for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to excel and make an impact, supporting their career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

This new role, Head of Finance Enablement – Future Finance Programme (FFP), will play a pivotal role in driving process excellence and creating a culture of enablement within the finance function. As Programme Management Office lead, this role will drive and manage the Future Finance Programme, requiring exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills, extensive knowledge of finance processes, and a proven track record in delivering large-scale transformation programs.

The role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and senior management to ensure the successful execution of the program, driving a continuous improvement approach across all that we do. Establishing and leading an agile and highly effective team of Process Excellence enablement champions, primarily out of our Malaysia-based centre of excellence, providing the entire global Finance population with toolsets, guidance, coaching, training, and governance to accelerate and improve their Process Excellence capabilities.

This role requires a change leader with a proven history of delivering process excellence enablement capabilities within complex, Asia and Africa-focused multinational Financial Services companies.

Key Accountabilities and Performance Measures Impacted:

  • Programme Management: Lead the overall program management for the finance transformation initiative, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, deliverables, timelines, and budget.
  • PMO Optimisation: Manage the Program Management Office (PMO), including continuously refining governance frameworks, methodologies, tools, and templates to effectively monitor and control project progress.
  • Resource Management: Facilitate resource allocation, capacity planning, and coordination across multiple workstreams to optimize efficiency and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
  • Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and proactively manage program risks and issues, implementing mitigation strategies and contingency plans as needed. Maintain a comprehensive risk and issue register and ensure appropriate escalation and resolution.
  • Reporting and Communication: Develop and deliver regular status reports, executive updates, and presentations on program progress, key milestones, risks, and issues to senior management and stakeholders.
  • Change Management: Collaborate with change management team to develop and implement effective change strategies, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes, systems, and procedures within the finance function.
  • Quality Assurance: Establish and maintain quality control processes to ensure project deliverables adhere to established standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identify opportunities for efficiency gains, and implement best-in-class project management practices throughout the program.

Measures:

  • High senior leadership engagement scoring with FFP programme
  • High practitioner engagement scoring with FFP programme
  • Cost effectiveness of Programme Management office
  • Strong and robust programme control and risk management, manifesting in low risk ratings and internal audit findings

Process Excellence Enablement:

  • Partner with Finance & Technology leadership to identify, develop, and implement Skillset and Technology enablement opportunities
  • Partnering with LBU and Other BAU leadership to identify and implement enhancement opportunities and drive delivery of associated benefits
  • Developing an engaged, high-performing team to facilitate Finance-wide outcomes at an optimized price point
  • Responsible for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of finance enablement initiatives by analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics.

Measures:

  • LBU & BAU Team 'Voice of Client' and engagement scores
  • Benchmarking of capabilities and costing versus peer organizations
  • Level of penetration and adoption of key initiatives
  • Successful alignment of initiatives to Prudential-wide initiatives
  • Establishment and execution of relevant KPIs and metrics framework and governance structure to measure initiative effectiveness.

GHO Leadership Capabilities:

Required Level for this role: Mastery; Advanced; Intermediate; Foundational

Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Advanced

Leading Innovation & Change: Advanced

Customer Centricity: Advanced

Integrity: Advanced

Growing Talent: Advanced

Working Together: Advanced

Execution Excellence: Advanced

Candidate Specifications:

A strong leader with a proven track record of leadership roles in large-scale projects, focusing on project governance, scaling, and socializing globally designed and developed frameworks within a highly complex hierarchy/functional organization across multiple jurisdictions. At least 12-14 years of experience in insurance finance technology and change projects, such as Insurance finance IT delivery, Insurance Finance Change management, or life insurance consulting. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills – experience working with senior executives is preferred. Exceptional project management skills, including the ability to manage complex projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholders. Audiences, including senior management. Proven experience in leading process optimization initiatives, embedding Lean and Six Sigma mindset and skillsets within complex organizations. Knowledge of relevant existing business processes and insurance finance closing processes is preferred. Knowledge of Alteryx, PowerBI, would be an asset but not essential. A demonstrable expertise and interest in Finance Transformation. Comfortable working with uncertainty, highly adaptable. Fluent in both spoken and written English. Willing to travel (extensive travel may be required). Qualified Accountant

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