Vice President, Distribution Finance

About the role

Singlife is looking for a Vice President, Distribution Finance to provide financial insight and commercial analytics across its Distribution channels. The role partners closely with Sales, Distribution Leadership, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and Finance to evaluate incentive effectiveness, safeguard adherence to financial guardrails, manage distribution expense forecasting and deliver insights that support sales strategy, incentive design and business decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Assess incentive effectiveness against targets, guardrails and affordability thresholds, and run pre- and post-implementation reviews of incentive programmes.
• Evaluate business cases and commercial proposals, and partner with finance on approvals and periodic reviews.
• Support monthly budgeting and tracking of distribution expenses, and analyse deviations and financial risks from sales mix shifts.
• Work with channel sales teams to align sales objectives with expense allocation and identify the drivers behind deviations.
• Develop management reports and financial insights for Distribution leadership and the CDO.
• Conduct finance forecasting to align commercial priorities with financial implications and recommend future spend prioritisation and budget realignment.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline.
• 6-10 years of experience in distribution commercial strategy or sales finance; prior FP&A or business finance experience in insurance is valuable.
• Experience in insurance or bancassurance is an advantage.

Required skills

• Strong financial modelling, forecasting and analytical capabilities.
• Experience with large datasets and turning analysis into management insights.
• Problem-solving, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Presentation skills for senior management audiences.