About the role:
The FP&A Analyst is responsible for handling day to day operations of FP&A Dept, weekly/monthly/quarterly forecast, monthly closing and variance analysis reporting & submission to global and annual budgeting. The work involves liaison between commercial team (sales/customer care/marketing), factories and accounting team.
What you will do:
Forecasting & Variance Analysis
•Lead the monthly forecasting processes, working closely with cross-functional teams to gather relevant information and assumptions. Includes loading official forecast into HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) system.
•Analyse regional business results to identify trends and/or financially significant or unusual variances that require follow-up and suggests corrective actions to continue to improve business profitability and growth.
•Build and optimize FP&A processes, related systems and use financial forecasting and modelling techniques to project regional financial performance and support regional leadership to develop and execute on plans to close gaps through operational audibles.
•Perform in-depth analysis of the group's performance on P&L, B/S, working capital efficiency, cash flow management, pricing and other key efficiency indicators.
•Analyse financial results/ trends against the regional business plan or benchmarks and create actionable suggestions for business improvements.
•Manage forecast deliverables and submission to global by working closely with commercial team.
•Interface and work closely with factory on S&OP to assess backlog and sales forecasting.
Business and Commercial Partnering
•Weekly dashboard update to commercial team.
•Analyse financial information to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations (Risk & Opportunities) to the management for decision making.
•Conduct scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making and evaluate the financial impact of various initiatives.
•Oversee the preparation of timely and accurate financial reports, dashboards, and presentations to regional and senior leadership. Provide financial support in the regions aimed at achieving the company’s financial and operational objectives.
•Support commercial to develop and execute the regional commercial business plan and work collaboratively with operations leadership to create an overall regional business plan.
•Collaborate cross-functionally with various departments to understand their financial needs, provide guidance.
•Provide support on ad hoc analytical and reporting projects, such as handling operational integration of acquired entities, new business initiatives, launch of new entities etc.
Budgeting
•Lead the annual budgeting processes, working closely with cross-functional teams to gather relevant information and assumptions.
•Build and own budget planning template which is to be used during budgeting process.
•Manage budget load into HFM for P&L, working capital and Balance sheet.
•Manage and own budget deck presentation to stakeholders.
Reporting, Forecasting and Process
•Be a data custodian. Collecting and recording historical data for analysis, managing a database of financial records.
•Continuously improve current database and reporting
•Develop and maintain financial models and forecast. Continuously improve these modeling and forecasting process
ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE
•Degree in Business, Finance or Finance Professional qualification.
•At least 5 years of relevant work experience in FP&A and with HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) experience.
•Have a comprehensive view of the commercial areas in the company and history of working closely with commercial teams.
•Tech savvy with a passion for data analytics. Experience with PowerBI, will be a plus.
•Deep understanding of a matrix organization and ability to manage stakeholders from various functions, across countries and different levels of management.
•Good excel skills with experience in building database, reporting, financial models and forecast.
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