CelcomDigi

Workforce Planning Specialist

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Job Description

  • Responsible for HR budget planning, workforce cost analytics, governance, and initiative tracking, providing data-driven insights to support effective workforce and cost management.
  • The role manages overall HR staff costs, while partnering with the Workspace Budget team on Opex and Capex. It drives budget forecasting and utilisation, workforce analytics, scenario modelling, and reporting, while leveraging Power BI, automation, Excel, and AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, data quality, and decision-making.
  • The role also drives process and reporting improvements, ensuring strong financial governance, compliance, and effective delivery of HR initiatives.

Responsibilities

Budget Planning, Monitoring, and Insights

  • Coordinate HR functional budget planning, periodic forecasts, and expenditure monitoring and regular finance submission for effective staff cost management.
  • Perform budget utilisation analysis, identify variances, trends, risks, and provide data-driven recommendations to improve cost utlisation effectiveness.
  • Support the planning, tracking, and reporting of HR initiatives, projects, and transformation programmes

Workforce Planning and Analytics

  • Develop workforce and cost analytics to identify trends, productivity drivers, skills pivot, risks and opportunities. Support strategic decision-making through scenario modelling, forecasting, and data-driven insights.
  • Leverage Power BI, Power Automate, Excel modelling, AI-enabled solutions, and other digital tools to automate reporting, improve data quality, and enhance planning efficiency

Governance & Compliance

  • Maintain awareness of relevant financial, procurement, and governance policies and ensure adherence to internal controls, processes, and regulatory requirements

Process & Systems Improvement

  • Identify opportunity to enhance, simplify, and automate reporting and workflow processes to improve efficiency and data integrity.
  • Collaborate with HR functions (e.g. HR Ops & HR Tech) in delivery of enhancement, automation or digitization.

Functional Scope

  • Direct management of staff cost, and working closely with Workspace Budget team that manage Opex and Capex.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Human Resources, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
  • 5–8 years of relevant working experience.
  • Minimum 2–3 years of experience in HR Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Financial Planning, Budgeting, or a related analytical function.
  • Professional certification in Data Analytics, Finance, HR Analytics, or Business Intelligence is an added advantage.
  • Experience in budget planning, budgeting operations, and financial tracking.
  • Strong experience in reporting, dashboard development, and performance monitoring.
  • Experience in project management, project reporting, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Experience in HR Analytics, Workforce Planning, or Financial Planning will be an added advantage.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, dashboard development, and data visualisation.
  • Strong capability in workforce analytics, data modelling, and data interpretation.
  • Knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
  • Strong data curiosity, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights and actionable recommendations.
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
CelcomDigi

About CelcomDigi

CelcomDigi is Malaysia’s largest mobile network operator with more than 20.4 million users on its network. The company aims to serve the growing digital needs of its customers by leveraging its newly combined widest network footprint, distribution touchpoints, innovative range of digital products and services, and superior customer experience powered by over 3,800 top industry experts. The company has clearly defined ambitions to advance the nation, inspire Malaysian society, and be a leader in inclusion and ESG practices. For more information on CelcomDigi, visit www.celcomdigi.com.

Industry
Telecommunications
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Petaling Jaya, MY
Year Founded
2022
Website
celcomdigi.com
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