Finance & Business Analyst

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Financial and Business Planning & Analysis (FBP&A)  Business Performance Review: Conduct comprehensive performance reviews across each school phase, enabling management to gain deep insights into spending patterns, cost structures, and return on investment (ROI) across functions and business units.  Strategic Support: Participate in annual budget preparation, maintain driver-based forecasts, explain changes in expected year-end performance, document assumptions and risks. Involved in mid-to-long-term financial planning.  CCA Curriculum Performance Management: Lead the financial performance management of CCA (Co-Curricular Activities) programs, evaluating resource input and output effectiveness.  Student Enrollment & Retention Analysis: Support financial data analysis related to student enrollment and retention, providing data-driven insights for enrollment strategies.  Risk and scenario analysis: Assess scenarios such as lower enrolment, salary increases, supplier inflation, cost benefit analysis where relevant.  Feasibility studies: Support feasibility studies for proposed school initiatives, programmes and capital projects by developing financial model, assessing costs, revenue potential, risks and scenarios, and providing evidence-based recommendations to inform leadership decisions.  Tuition Fee Pricing Support: Participate in the development and optimization of tuition fee pricing models, offering data-driven pricing recommendations.  Capital expenditure and lifecycle costs: Evaluate major projects and purchases, including whole-life costs, recurring commitments, replacement cycles and post-investment reviews.  Operational service: Support proportionate reviews of transport, catering, facilities, outsourced services, trips and other material activities.  Online Resource Efficiency Review: Assess the input-output efficiency of online resources and propose optimization measures.  Cost Control & Optimization: Refine cost structures, prioritize cost items, and implement continuous monitoring and tracking mechanisms. Budget and actual spending tracking to identify key variances and input  Tax Planning: Assist in tax planning to optimize the tax structure while ensuring compliance.  Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage big data analytics tools to build financial analysis models and promote a data-driven decision-making culture.  Staffing and curriculum planning: Parther with HR and academic leaders to model headcount, total employment costs, class sizes, subject provision and recruitment scenarios.  Cash flow and fee collection: Support cash-flow forecasting and analyse fee collection, overdue balances and payment patterns, distinguish analysis from responsibility for chasing parents. 2. Digitalization & Process Optimization (Digital Champion)  Automation Project Leadership: Lead the adoption for approved automation projects, collaborating closely with the Group Finance, Operations and IT department to explore and implement new tools and reports, enhancing financial operational efficiency.  Process Standardization: Review and streamline school operational procedures (e.g., external personnel service fees, training funds, online resource applications), providing professional guidance to drive standardization and normalization. 3. Other relevant tasks  Asset Management: Lead school asset management and inventory, ensuring alignment between physical assets and financial records.  Cross-Department / Cross-Group Coordination: Facilitate communication and coordination with group finance, other departments, and campuses to promote information flow and business synergy.  Team Backup: Serve as a key support resource within the finance department, flexibly covering for colleagues to ensure smooth departmental operations.

BASIC QUALIFICATION  Holder of Bachelor Degree  Majored in finance/business management and other related majors  Fluent written and spoken English  Support Hiba Academy Values EXPERIENCE  More than 3 years financial planning & analysis or business consultant experience, ideally in a context that includes international staff;  Experience of Microsoft Dynamics ERP is advantageous  Proficient in using various office systems and software EXPERTISE  Experience of multinational company/education setting is preferred  Cross-cultural working experience is preferred  Fluency in English and Chinese  Independent and responsible  High integrity and honesty  Accuracy and attention to details  The ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines  Excellent communication skills with a diverse range of people and interpersonal skills  Technology user skills sufficient to prepare reports in Excel and Word, and aptitude to operate appropriate databases  Ability to work to tight timelines