General Manager, Corporate Research & Analytics

Date: 13 May 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

Company: hrdcorp

SECTION 2: JOB PURPOSE & OVERVIEW

Responsible for providing highquality, integrated analytical insights to support informed decisionmaking at the management and governance levels. The role oversees Business Analytics and Financial Analytics, ensuring that data, research, and analysis are transformed into clear, actionable intelligence.

 

The role plays a critical part in enabling strategic planning, performance management, and transparency by delivering management dashboards, financial models, and internal and external analytical reporting. It ensures analytical outputs are robust, reliable, and aligned with organisational priorities.

 

  

SECTION 4: KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1.

Management Insights

Enable management decisionmaking through analytics by translating complex data, research, and performance metrics into structured insights, reports, and recommendations to support timely, evidencebased strategic and operational decisions by senior management.

 

 

This accountability requires close engagement with executives to understand decision needs, frame analytical questions, and ensure outputs are relevant, credible, and clearly communicated. Success is demonstrated through increased reliance on analytical insights in management forums and improved decision quality.

 

2.

Business Analytics & Management Dashboards

Lead business analytics and management dashboards by overseeing the development, maintenance, and enhancement of enterprise dashboards, performance metrics, and analytical frameworks to provide clear visibility of organisational performance and key business drivers.

 

This includes ensuring dashboards are accurate, standardised, and visually intuitive, while continuously improving analytical methodologies and data integration. The role ensures business analytics outputs support both operational tracking and strategic performance reviews.

 

3.

Financial Analytics, Modelling & Financial Dashboards

Lead financial analytics, modelling, and financial dashboards by directing financial analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling, and financial performance visualisation to support financial planning, investment decisions, and longterm sustainability.

 

This accountability includes ensuring financial models are robust, transparent, and aligned with organisational assumptions and strategies. Success is reflected in management confidence in financial projections, scenario analysis, and financial insight used for decisionmaking.

 

4.

Internal and External Analytical Reporting

Deliver internal and external analytical reporting by integrating business and financial analytics into consistent, accurate, and compliant reporting outputs to support management reporting, stakeholder communication, and external disclosure requirements.

 

This includes ensuring alignment between internal management views and externally reported information, while maintaining data integrity and auditability. The role collaborates with finance, corporate affairs, and governance teams to ensure analytical consistency and credibility.

 

5.

Analytics Capability & Data Governance

Build analytics capability and data governance by developing highperforming analytical teams, strengthening analytical standards, and enforcing data governance and quality controls to ensure sustainable, trusted, and scalable analytics across the organisation.

 

This accountability focuses on talent development, methodological consistency, and continuous improvement in analytics tools and practices. Success is measured through improved data quality, analytical maturity, and the organisation’s ability to leverage analytics as a strategic capability.

 

 

GENERIC ACCOUNTABILITIES

6.

MINDSET, BEHAVIOUR AND CULTURE

Promote a positive mindset and behaviour, shaping a work culture that values personal integrity and drives high performance. Use practical tools and methods to emphasise ethics, customer focus, and commitment.

 

Foster personal growth and business excellence by embracing PSMB’s Core Values (P.I.L.L.A.R.S - Passion, Integrity, Leadership, Loyalty, Agility, Responsiveness). Ready to take on extra tasks as needed and willing to go above and beyond.

 

7.

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Drive self-development of talent, skills and knowledge by attending training and participate in seminars/workshops or other training venues to align with the promotion of lifelong learning and acquisition of future work skills in achieving high performance delivery.

 

8.

OPERATIONAL BUDGET MANAGEMENT

Strategise and manage departmental/unit operations within allocated approved budget through continuous monitoring of actual expenditure against budget and undertake appropriate control measures to ensure operations are conducted effectively and efficiently to support business goals.

 

9.

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

Foster and sustain effective working relationships and rapport with the internal stakeholders and relevant government authorities, business and management institutions, national and key industry players and service providers to keep abreast with latest development to capture new business opportunities.

 

10.

LEADERSHIP AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT (VP & ABOVE)

Drive the development of a competent working team that will enhance and sustain staff capabilities in achieving high performance delivery to ensure internalisation of the right leadership and capabilities in executing their jobs.

 

Foster the development of talents by providing guidance and avenue to potential employees for succession planning and recommend development needs as required to ensure grooming of talents in align to the best interest of the talent and PSMB’s vision and mission.

 

 

SECTION 5: QUALIFICATION & RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Educational Qualification

  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Statistics, Data Analytics, or a related discipline
  • Postgraduate qualification (MBA, MSc, or equivalent) is an advantage

 

Relevant Experience (skills & knowledge)

  • 12–15 years of experience in business analytics, financial analytics, corporate research, or corporate performance management
  • Proven leadership experience overseeing analytical or insightdriven teams, with at least 5 years in leading it
  • Strong experience in dashboard development, financial modelling, and executive reporting