About Us
Join the National University of Singapore (NUS) Finance Team – Where Innovation Meets Excellence
At NUS, the Office of Finance stands as a dynamic and strategic partner, driving financial sustainability and operational excellence. Our team plays a crucial role in overseeing financial planning, optimising resources, and enabling the University’s ambition and innovation.
We are at the forefront of formulating, reviewing, and analysing the University’s strategic, operating, and capital budgets. Through strong governance, robust financial processes, and cutting-edge systems, we ensure every dollar is put to its best use, fueling research, education, and transformation
Why Join Us?
🚀 Make an Impact: Play a key role in shaping financial strategies that influence the University’s growth and global standing.
📈Growth & Development: We believe in continuous learning, offering mentorship, career development, and upskilling opportunities.
🤝Collaborative Culture: Join a high-performing team that values trust, innovation, and excellence.
🔹Finance Transformation: Be part of initiatives leveraging SAP S4 Hana, AI-driven analytics, and digital finance solutions to drive efficiency and future-ready finance operations.
If you are passionate about finance, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to be part of a team that drives meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you!
Join us and be a part of shaping the future of finance at NUS!
Website: https://nus.edu.sg/finance
Job Description
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Assistant Senior Manager to support the University’s grant claim processes and contribute to financial planning and analysis. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong foundation in data analytics and audit, who are eager to drive process improvements and support strategic financial decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Grant Claims Management
- Grant Management: Take end-to-end ownership of education grant management, including preparation, review and timely submission of grant claims, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with University policies and funding agency requirements.
- Data Insights & Analysis: Leverage grant and student data to identify trends, patterns and emerging issues, providing meaningful insights to support management decision-making and resource planning.
- Forecasting & Prediction: Develop data-driven analysis to support forecasting and prediction of grant funding, student numbers and related financial impacts, enabling earlier identification of potential variances and funding risks.
- Financial Impact: Assess the financial implications of changes in funding policies, student profiles and grant parameters, highlighting key trends and potential impacts to support timely management action.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Proactively coordinate across faculties and relevant central departments to resolve grant-related issues, improve data quality and ensure consistent application of grant requirements.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Drive continuous improvement by streamlining grant management processes, strengthening data quality and controls, and identifying opportunities for automation to improve efficiency and productivity.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A):
- Strategic Financial Planning, analysis & Reporting: Support long-term financial planning, analysis and financial & management reporting to Finance Business Partner Leads.
- Reporting & Compliance: Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and management reports for leadership and stakeholders.
- Subject analysis and business insights: Support business insights and recommendations for income/cost optimization and financial strategy.
- Benchmarking & Best Practices: Support research and implement industry best practices in cost management and productivity analysis. Benchmark faculty costs against peers and identify areas for improvement.
Data Analytics & Reporting:
- Power BI Reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and reports using Power BI to monitor grant claims and financial performance.
- Data Visualization & Insights: Present financial data in clear, visual formats to support decision-making across departments.
Other Duties:
- Any other ad-hoc business performance reporting to Management and/or stakeholders as assigned from time to time.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance preferred
- Preferred certifications:
- CMA (Certified Management Accountant)
- CPA (Certified Public Accountant) – Useful but not mandatory
- FP&A-related certifications
- Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel (PivotTables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, Power Query, macros).
- Financial Modeling
- Data Analysis & Visualization (Power BI).
- ERP & Financial Systems (SAP S4Hana & Jedox).
- 8+ years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and variance analysis, grant management (experience in higher education is a plus) and cost management.
Required Skills & Competencies:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proactive stakeholder engagement with a desire for change management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for non-financial stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Knowledge of fund accounting is preferred (experience in higher education a plus).
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
The position is only open to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents.
