FINANCIAL MANAGER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS
Published: Mar 18, 2025 - The Financial Manager holds qualifications in either ACCA or CIMA, showcasing a robust foundation in accounting principles and practices. Known for excellent presentation and communication skills, effectively builds relationships and influences positively across all organizational levels. Demonstrates strong commercial acumen and management experience, confidently making sound accounting decisions and solving complex problems within dynamic business environments.
Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Financial Manager Resume
- Financial Analysis
- Cash Management
- Risk Management
- Budget Preparation
- Investment Monitoring
- Revenue Recognition
- VAT Reporting
- Financial Forecasting
- Compliance Management
- Financial Reporting
- Stakeholder Liaison
- Query Resolution
- Audit Coordination
- Team Leadership
- Decision Support
- Stakeholder Relations
- Strategic Communication
- Personnel Supervision
- Executive Support
- Stakeholder Management
Summary of Financial Manager Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume
1. BA in Finance with 5 Years of Experience
- Accounting qualification either ACCA or CIMA
- Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders across all levels and fully understand the challenges of the function being supported
- Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to impact positively throughout the organization
- Previous management experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a complex business environment
- Ability to work collaboratively across functions, recognizing and utilizing the expertise across the business to drive value
- Confident in holding self and others to account
- Commercial acumen
- High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity
- Good knowledge of accounting principles and practices
- Ability to make sound day to day accounting decisions, solve accounting issues and problems and recommend solutions
- Previous experience using accounting systems such as Cognos
2. BA in Accounting with 3 Years of Experience
- Experience in managing, leading and nurturing Finance staffs
- Self-motivated and analytical mindset with stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work under pressure & work in a tight timeline given
- Ability to work as a team with a collaborative management style.
- An organized and meticulous person with good eye for details
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Oracle
- Strong customer focus with a clear understanding of the wider issues impacting the financial markets
- Enthusiastic team-player with a pragmatic committed approach
- Previous experience and knowledge of SQL
- The high degree of initiative, dependability, and ability to work with little supervision
- A critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
3. BA in Economics with 3 Years of Experience
- Experience in the finance industry, preferably in the lending business.
- Good knowledge of accounting standards especially in IFRS9.
- Hand-on experience in maintaining general ledger system, SAP.
- Knowledge of electronic payment systems such as SWIFT.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English and Chinese Languages (Cantonese and Mandarin).
- Proficiency in PC (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, etc.).
- Independent, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Passion, drive and fantastic communication skills
- Previous experience working in a fast-paced business in a role that involves offering business critical analysis, insights, or information for significant decision-making.
- Good supervisory, project management, and time management skills
- Working knowledge of reimbursement principles
4. BA in Business Administration with 6 Years of Experience
- Financial/accounting experience, preferably in a major academic medical center
- Excellent financial management skills to manage a very large, complex, and diverse financial structure and operating environment.
- Very strong organizational skills to be able to manage a wide variety of competing projects, prioritize tasks effectively, and meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work very independently, with little direct supervision.
- Strong communication skills to be able to effectively communicate with a wide audience, include senior hospital administrators, physician leadership, technician staff, and other hospital personnel across different institutions.
- Solid analytical skills to be able to identify a problem or issue, synthesize the key elements for an action plan or recommendation, and to present the information in a succinct and effective manner.
- Very strong interpersonal skills to be able to work with staff at all levels on issues of a sometimes complex, sensitive, and confidential nature.
- Leadership skills to be able to bring diverse groups of individuals together around a common set of goals and to create and implement an action plan.
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented with advanced Excel modeling abilities
- A strong working knowledge of accounting concepts and standards
- Managerial experience working in finance with a mix of chartered and commercial
- Experience in managing a team & would consider yourself a natural leader
5. BA in Management with 8 Years of Experience
- Finance experience and direct management experience
- Measured experience demonstrating problem-solving and root cause analysis
- Highly analytical, detail oriented and strong business sense
- Proven ability to develop new ideas, creative solutions and demonstrated experience implementing such mechanisms to result
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing and often ambiguous environment, effective multi-tasking skills are vital
- Demonstrated effective communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and levels of management
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase and/or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making
- Demonstrated financial acumen and analytical experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of business impact and results
- Experience with advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.)
- Demonstrated planning and project oversight/management skills
- Excels in a fast-paced, high growth and rapidly changing technology-driven environment
- Meticulous, organised and attentive to details in the midst of a fast-paced environment
6. BA in Statistics with 9 Years of Experience
- Technology company background
- Experience in corporate financial planning, forecasting, and reporting
- Hands-on financial forecast modeling experience
- Experience in managing bookings, revenue and P&L forecast by partnering with the VP of Finance or CFO
- Advanced Excel User (Advanced formula, Pivot table, Power Pivot)
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Well organized, attention to detail and ability to prioritize under fast paced environment
- Hands-on experience with CPM tools (e.g. Adaptive, Hyperion), admin or super-user experience with Anaplan
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Demonstrated skills in project plan design and implementation, directing projects, coordinating the work of operational teams, and managing project budgets
- Knowledge of basic office practices, procedures, machines and equipment
- Ability to connect the dots between business processes, finance processes and impact on various stakeholders.
7. BA in Business Analytics with 5 Years of Experience
- Management experience with demonstrated leadership skills with proven ability to take on new assignments
- Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
- Demonstrated financial acumen and/or analytical experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Significant relevant experience in positions that require analysis and reporting financial results
- Experience in leading a team and developing talent and working cross-functionally
- Proven familiarity with concepts of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Advanced experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
- Extensive experience performing financial and ad hoc analysis using data reporting tools
- Highly analytical, detail oriented and strong business sense, proven ability to manage new ideas and creative solutions and demonstrated experience managing such mechanisms to a result
- Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve effective results in a fast-paced, dynamic, ever-growing, and often ambiguous environment, effective multi-tasking skills are vital
- Demonstrated effective communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and senior levels of management
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, Tableau, and/or Cognos) or other financial systems (i.e. Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), providing solutions based on results of ad hoc analyses to senior management for strategic decision-making.
8. BA in International Business with 4 Years of Experience
- Experience in lending (SME segment)
- Have a good network in SME segments/ SME customers for lending.
- Having financial knowledge about business banking / commercial banking
- Proven sales experience and result orientation.
- Strong sales acumens with good selling and interpersonal skills.
- Fluent in English.
- Self-confident, ambitious, and willing to take challenges.
- High energy level, aggressive and can-to attitude.
- Knowledge of hardware, software and programming
- Fast learner, independent and capable of working under pressure and efficiently
- Experience performing analyses using advanced Excel functionality and providing recommendations based on results to senior management for strategic decision-making
- Strong resourcefulness and ability to find or develop compelling data given limited resources and time
- Experience and ability to use SQL, Essbase, Power Pivot, Cognos or similar tools
- Detail-oriented and data-driven