**General Accountability:** The role is accountable for the migration of financial processes within Asia territories as part of the Asia Finance Transformation project within Manulife Business Processing Services (“MBPS”) and for the maintenance of trust with our customers. **Role and Responsibilities** **:** **Accounting and Reporting** The job holder will be allocated with Finance processes not limited to: + **Operations** – finance operations transactional in nature but has financial impact (e.g. Invoicing, Credit Card Refund, Daily Matching of Premium) + **Accounting Operations** – responsible in preparing, uploading of Journal Entry to facilitate month-end closing activities. Reconciliation of accounts and balance sheet items for regulatory requirements + **Reconciliation** -performs reconciliation such as Bank Reconciliation, Intercompany Reconciliation and System reconciliation to ensure completeness and correctness of financial information for the month + **Management Reporting** – to support needs of different internal or external parties. **Quality Analyst/** **Review** **er** The job holder will be given processes that will be subject to his/her review on top of his/her daily, monthly production work. It will be part of her responsibility to monitor junior team members work, ensure error-free submission and be accountable for the processes subject to his/her review. + Ensure that all processes/deliverables for the day have undergone internal review process prior to BU submission + Follow the quality checklist as documented during migration. Ensure that allteam members adhere to the signed of process documentation. + Assist the leader in providing root cause analysis and action items for incidents encountered during the month. **Trainer** The job holder is responsible to train junior team members of the processes already migrated. Ensure complete transfer of knowledge through theoretical training, reverse shadowing, and guide the team members from parallel run to go-live. + Serve as the go-to person of the specific location in terms of the knowledge of the processes + Create training plan for new joiners + Assist the leader in task allocation and ensuring that all members are well trained and efficient enough to handle live production + Provide timely feedback on team members for the perusal of the leader + Provide coaching and additional training for items that needs further clarification prior to raising to the BU. **Point-of-Contact** Reporting directly to **Asia Finance Controllers – SSC, Team Leader** , the Senior Finance Specialist is primarily accountable for general accounting and reporting through timely and accurate service delivery. + Assist the leader and the project team in identifying processes that can be migrated in MBPS. Assess based on migration criteria and provide feedbacks and inputs as necessary. + Assist the leader in providing updates in the migration. + Serve as the contact person of the project team in getting regular updates, challenges encountered, results monitoring of the parallel run + Learn the processes to be migrated and provide timely process documentation following the standard MBPS format as aligned with the Control Tower. + Serve as the business unit point of contact for any process issues or task specific queries. **Automation Champion** The job holder is responsible in driving automation initiatives on processes handled by his/her assigned Business unit with the goal of improving accuracy and overall cost efficiency of the team. + Propose automation for tasks assigned and + Support junior members on their automation initiatives. + Coordinate with Business Developers on status of automation projects. + Lead User Acceptance Testing and report result to Team Leader. **Qualifications:** + 5+ years of working experience with progressive responsibility within the Accounting and management reporting fieldat least 3 of which is with an international organization or Shared Service Center. + CPA with university degree in accounting, finance, or financial management. + Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. + Ability to work in ambiguous environment and adapt to change while managing time and workload with aggressive timelines. + Preferably with process migration background + Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across cultures. Excellent English written and verbal communication skills. + Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of Excel (i.e. mastery of excel formulas and pivot tables is a must; VBA is a plus). Proficient in MS Office suite including Outlook, Word, Power Point. + Willing to work on dayshift and overtime may be required to meet business deadlines. _This Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this role._ **Competencies:** + Excellent analytical, research and problem-solving skills + Comprehensive knowledge in expenses management, payment systems and operations + Solid interpersonal skills to interact with, establish relationships with the international business units. + Makes decisions in the absence of rules and /or in complex situations + Strong time management skills with the ability to be flexible to changing environments. + Ability to work independently and willing to collaborate with other team members. **Challenges:** Training junior members of the team on migrated tasks and handling review function to ensure the team’s overall accuracy and timeliness. Delivery of financial reports and analyses under tight deadlines. Create and continuously develop more effective controls to ensure accuracy of reports and cost efficiency. **Position Dimensions (Organizational Impact):** + The Senior Financial Specialist role is primary responsible in driving migration projects through accurate and timely reporting. Candidates should be willing to report in Diliman, Quezon City Candidates should be willing to report in a morning shift **Tentang Manulife dan John Hancock** Manulife Financial Corporation adalah grup layanan keuangan internasional yang membantu memudahkan keputusan dan membuat hidup lebih baik bagi nasabah. Dengan kantor utama kami di Toronto, Kanada, kami beroperasi sebagai Manulife di seluruh kantor kami di Asia, Kanada, dan Eropa, serta utamanya sebagai John Hancock di Amerika Serikat. Kami menyediakan nasihat keuangan, asuransi, serta solusi manajemen kekayaan dan aset untuk individu, grup, dan lembaga. Pada akhir tahun 2022, kami memiliki lebih dari 40.000 karyawan, lebih dari 116.000 agen, dan ribuan mitra distribusi yang melayani lebih dari 34 juta nasabah. Pada akhir tahun 2022, kami memiliki $1,3 triliun (US$1,0 triliun) dalam aset yang dikelola dan administrasi, termasuk total aset yang diinvestasikan sebesar $0,4 triliun (US$0,3 triliun), dan aset bersih dana terpisah sebesar $0,3 triliun (US$0,3 triliun). Kami terdaftar dengan kode ‘MFC’ di bursa efek Toronto, New York, dan Filipina, serta ‘945’ di bursa efek Hong Kong. **Manulife adalah Perusahaan dengan Kesetaraan Kesempatan Kerja** Di Manulife/John Hancock, kita merayakan keragaman. Kita berusaha menarik, mengembangkan, dan mempertahankan tenaga kerja yang sama beragamnya dengan nasabah yang kita layani dan untuk mengembangkan lingkungan kerja inklusif yang menerima kekuatan budaya dan individu. Kita berkomitmen untuk melaksanakan rekrutmen, retensi, peningkatan, dan kompensasi secara adil, dan kita mengatur semua praktik dan program tanpa adanya diskriminasi. Baik itu diskriminasi karena ras, keturunan, tempat asal, warna kulit, asal etnis, kewarganegaraan, agama atau keyakinan agama, kepercayaan, jenis kelamin (termasuk kehamilan dan kondisi terkait kehamilan), orientasi seksual, karakteristik genetika, status veteran, identitas gender, ekspresi gender, usia, status pernikahan, status keluarga, disabilitas, maupun alasan lain yang dilindungi oleh hukum yang berlaku. Menyediakan akses hubungan kerja yang adil merupakan prioritas utama kita. Seorang perwakilan Human Resources akan bekerja dengan pelamar yang meminta akomodasi yang wajar selama proses lamaran kerja.  Seluruh informasi yang dibagikan selama proses permohonan akomodasi akan disimpan dan digunakan dengan cara yang sesuai dengan hukum dan kebijakan Manulife/John Hancock yang berlaku.  Untuk meminta akomodasi yang wajar selama proses lamaran kerja, silakan hubungi recruitment@manulife.com . **Working Arrangement** Kombinasi