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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 operating, strategic, 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://www.nus.edu.sg/finance

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nus-office-of-finance/

Job Description

We are looking for a curious, analytical, and proactive problem solver to advance the design, operationalization, and governance of finance control tests and related analytics across Finance Shared Services (FSS). Reporting to Associate Director, the incumbent will convert control objectives into executable, auditable specifications and runbooks for FSS core processes; analyze alert patterns and cross-data signals to refine tests; build consumable dashboards and exception reports; and maintain traceable changes and evidence in partnership with internal audit and the risk department, and, where applicable, with Finance Project Applications & Data Intelligence (PADI).

Key Responsibilities:

Controls Design & Risk Profiling

• Operationalize approved control designs into test logics and reviewer steps that business process owners (BPOs) can follow consistently.
• Recommend threshold/variable updates that improve signal‑to‑noise while preserving detection effectiveness.
• Produce operator‑friendly process guides that outline evidence requirements, steps and decision flows for exception handling.

Analysis & Cross‑Data Detection

• Analyze alert patterns to identify refinements (what to add, change, or remove) in test logic.
• Connect data across systems/platforms to detect duplicate pathways or leakages and validate hypotheses.
• Draft queries and use productivity AI tools to accelerate exploration, documentation, and summaries; partner with PADI when deeper engineering or data‑science support is required.

Reporting & Insight Delivery

• Build and maintain dashboards and exception reports for BPOs and stakeholders; ensure they are simple, timely, and actionable.
• Curate practical definitions and basic data checks (completeness, accuracy, timeliness) to keep reporting trustworthy.
• Publish concise release notes when logic or reporting changes affect users.

Governance & Exception Workflow

• Maintain a versioned register of tests and changes with plain‑English rationale, effective dates, and evidence links.
• Support responses to internal audit and risk department and compile audit‑ready evidence packs.
• Operate the exception handling workflow, keep the decision tree current, and ensure evidence and hand‑offs are clear for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of relevant experience across internal controls, audit/assurance, data analytics, or shared‑services process excellence (or a mix thereof).
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred with 4 – 5 years of relevant experience.
• Diploma holders with at least 6 years of relevant experience — including a strong track record in control‑test tuning (e.g. reducing false positives while maintaining detection), managing versioned change/evidence registers, and producing process guides and release notes will also be considered.

Professional & Analytical Skills

• Experience with internal controls and assurance in finance (e.g., internal audit, control testing, risk/compliance, or equivalent).
• Ability to translate control aims into clear, auditable test logics/specifications and explain trade‑offs simply (e.g., precision, false positives, workload impact).
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills; able to map processes and capture clear user requirements.
• Ability to tune and refine test logics to reduce false positives while maintaining detection effectiveness, including equivalent experience from similar analytical or exception‑review work.
• Ability to produce clear, operator‑friendly documentation (process guides, SOPs, decision flows) and concise stakeholder communication.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with BI/reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Able to query and join data using SQL; familiarity with Python is an advantage but not required.
• Familiarity with scheduled data feeds/pipelines and basic APIs from a consumer perspective (reading specs, raising issues); no software development required.
• Comfort with basic data checks (e.g., completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and explaining where data comes from and how it is joined.
• Able to use productivity AI tools to draft queries, summaries, and documentation.
• Comfortable partnering with Projects, Applications and Data Intelligence (PADI) and NUS Information Technology teams to scope approaches and interpret results for operational use.

Personal Attributes

• Able to adjust to changing priorities and pivots quickly while maintaining control‑logic quality and auditability.
• Takes ownership and follows through for deliverables (tests, runbooks, change notes) and reliably closes loops.
• Able to manage competing priorities and works independently, while collaborating effectively where required to deliver cross‑functional outcomes.
• Ability to articulate clearly and work with various staff levels to collaborate effectively.

The position is only open to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents.