Specialist – Group Corporate Planning and Strategy

The Purpose:

Accountable for assisting the formulation of the business strategy, develop the Revenue plans and value drivers to enable the Group’s businesses/Business Units to achieve envisage vision. Coordinate with the business units to formulate any performance improvement plans

The Job :

• Actively contribute to the development of Long Range Plan (LRP) and Business Strategy by evaluating global/industry trends, consumer evolution, and competitive environment to align Dialog group objectives with Axiata group vision.
• Prepare revenue budgets and forecasts for Business Units (BUs) and Market Business Units (MBUs) to support financial budgeting.
• Participate in target setting for BUs and sales teams.
• Play a key role in forming BU initiatives to achieve business objectives.
• Evaluate and recommend investment projects/CAPEX rationalization in line with organizational strategy to ensure value creation for Dialog Group.
• Continuously study business and industry dynamics to identify emerging market opportunities and competitive threats, providing inputs to respective BUs.
• Support group initiatives on growth strategy and operational excellence by engaging in planning, monitoring, and controlling.
• Model business plans/investment appraisals in MS Excel and prepare MS PowerPoint slides with a clear storyline/message for top management.
• Develop business KPIs aligned with corporate objectives, benchmark performance with industry best practices, and ensure process control.
• Create and model organization-wide performance monitoring systems for Business Units and Sales Units.
• Prepare monthly management reports/flash reports to monitor actual performance against targets, providing information/suggestions to senior management for prompt actions.
• Conduct variance analysis against targets to ensure monitoring is linked to corporate objectives, achieving goal congruence.
• Model incentive structures for sales teams and present them to management.
• Assess the feasibility of investments for Investment Committee approvals and furnish all Axiata Corp Center deliverables, including rolling forecasts, EWG/Cost EWG presentations, and ad-hoc requirements from Corp Center.
  

  The Purpose:

  Accountable for assisting the formulation of the business strategy, develop the Revenue plans and value drivers to enable the Group’s businesses/Business Units to achieve envisage vision. Coordinate with the business units to formulate any performance improvement plans

  The Job :

• Actively contribute to the development of Long Range Plan (LRP) and Business Strategy by evaluating global/industry trends, consumer evolution, and competitive environment to align Dialog group objectives with Axiata group vision.
• Prepare revenue budgets and forecasts for Business Units (BUs) and Market Business Units (MBUs) to support financial budgeting.
• Participate in target setting for BUs and sales teams.
• Play a key role in forming BU initiatives to achieve business objectives.
• Evaluate and recommend investment projects/CAPEX rationalization in line with organizational strategy to ensure value creation for Dialog Group.
• Continuously study business and industry dynamics to identify emerging market opportunities and competitive threats, providing inputs to respective BUs.
• Support group initiatives on growth strategy and operational excellence by engaging in planning, monitoring, and controlling.
• Model business plans/investment appraisals in MS Excel and prepare MS PowerPoint slides with a clear storyline/message for top management.
• Develop business KPIs aligned with corporate objectives, benchmark performance with industry best practices, and ensure process control.
• Create and model organization-wide performance monitoring systems for Business Units and Sales Units.
• Prepare monthly management reports/flash reports to monitor actual performance against targets, providing information/suggestions to senior management for prompt actions.
• Conduct variance analysis against targets to ensure monitoring is linked to corporate objectives, achieving goal congruence.
• Model incentive structures for sales teams and present them to management.
• Assess the feasibility of investments for Investment Committee approvals and furnish all Axiata Corp Center deliverables, including rolling forecasts, EWG/Cost EWG presentations, and ad-hoc requirements from Corp Center.

The Person:

• Degree (Engineering or Business) with First Class (Hons) OR a Management Degree from a reputed University
• 2years experience in the similar scope.
• CIMA Exams Completed (ACMA preferred)
• Proficiency in MS Office package (MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Good communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills