Assistant Manager, Finance Analytics
- Full-time
Company Description
About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
You will be a key member of the Finance Analytics team, part of the Finance Center of Excellence. This role reports directly to the Head of Finance Analytics with the primary mission being to transform the CFO Office into a predictive strategic operator. We aim to achieve this by being a centralized hub in a federated analytics model, translating complex data infrastructure into clear, applicable financial strategy and planning.
Get to Know the Role
We are looking for an Assistant Manager, Finance Analytics. As an individual contributor and team player, You will be both an architect of our "Single Source of Truth" and a navigator for business leaders. By combining finance domain depth with advanced data science and Generative AI, you will build reusable decision products. These products will eliminate manual reconciliation, and empower FP&A and Strategic Finance teams to focus on actionable insights rather than data gathering.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will establish the finance metric spine by define and govern a universal "Finance language" (metric definitions, hierarchies, and logic). This ensures enterprise-wide consistency and alignment with certified data from central data engineering.
- You will partner on strategic deep dives as a collaborative thought partner to FP&A and Strategic Finance. You will solve real-life challenges by conducting analyses on areas such as promo ROI, customer profitability, reinvestment strategies, and new product launches.
- Deploy Predictive Modeling to build, train, and deploy machine learning-driven, driver-based forecasting models. These models support key metrics like GMV, Revenue, and EBITDA.
- You will build Reusable Decision Products. Develop scalable, self-serve diagnostic tools and standardized packs for performance tracking, budgeting, and unit economics, designed with a common core that can be adapted for regional and country-level needs.
- You will integrate GenAI and Automation to pilot and deploy GenAI and automation tools, such as Cursor and Claude Code. These tools will help accelerate analysis by detecting anomalies, and generating initial variance commentary for executive review.
- You will develop financial data storytelling, transform complex financial models and raw data into clear, action-oriented insights. Use advanced visualization tools like Power BI to present key takeaways to the CFO, ExCo, and other stakeholders, focusing on recommended actions beyond just reporting results.
- Drive Exception-Led Management, construct event-driven scenario models and early warning systems that highlight performance risks before they impact the P&L, enabling proactive business decisions.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of experience in Corporate Finance/FP&A combined with Data Science, Business Intelligence, or Systems Architecture.
- Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in Python or R for statistical analysis and machine learning.
- Strong understanding of corporate finance, including P&L management, GAAP, variance analysis, and capital allocation.
- Experience with Power BI or similar tools, ERP/EPM systems (e.g., Oracle EPBCS), and cloud data warehouses such as AWS, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills with experience leading cross-functional projects.
Additional Information
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
- Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours
What We Stand For At Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.