AVP Business Partnering and Analytics from a Direct Life Insurer (Thailand)
Key Accountabilities:
- Work with key cross functional teams, sales distribution channels and other non-sales/support teams and enabling functions to support channel growth and profitable business growth.
- Work on Annual financial planning process (recurring monthly/quarterly management reporting, focused on sales APE, NBP margins, by product/channel splits, variance vs last year actual, vs, plan, trends) and analysis with insights/commentary.
- New initiatives evaluation, assessment of pros/cons, benefits vs. costs to support decision making for project approval. Could include expansion of new channels (e.g. digital partnerships/buildout of new platforms); could include as applicable new assessments on new partnerships/M&A opportunities, re-evaluation of existing/in-flight projects, variance vs. previous assumptions, updated per latest changes etc.
- Key stakeholders/audience are the company's Thailand leadership team (CEO/CFO, Executive Committee members); Group/Regional team stakeholders; closely partner with CFO direct teams (actuarial, financial controllership, investment/capital).
Qualifications:
- 8–10 year work experience.
- Life insurance experience, ideally have work experience in Thailand life insurance market.
- Preferred if can be actuarial/financial/accounting background.
- Management reporting experience (including recurring monthly/quarterly reporting updates, focused primarily on APE/sales/by product/channel profit margins); dashboards and key KPIs, etc.
- Commercial/business experience (not just technical background).
- Strong communication skills, both written, and verbal (familiar with presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders).
- Flexibility/problem solving approach.
- Detail oriented, hands on, can work independently and take lead towards completion, including proactively incorporating feedback from key stakeholders.
- Continuous process improvement/automation & streamlining, promote data visualization.