Financial Analyst

Job Description

• Finance Business support for Enterprise Business BU providing comprehensive, timely and effective financial analysis, insights and recommendations.
• Prepare the monthly/quarterly forecasting and annual budget exercise by reviewing financial assumptions and highlight risk/issues.
• Provide variance analysis for actual vs budget and forecast, providing key findings to the business.
• Ensure timely and accurate closing of finance and accounting activities and providing in-depth analysis of the financial performance.
• Review and track Enterprise Business BU cost to ensure it is align with approved budget.
• Involved in annual sales target allocation exercise, translating budget into sales target.
• Involved in the cost syndication exercise in ensuring appropriate cost allocation to the product and provide analysis on product profitability.
• Support in reviewing of Business Case and providing financial recommendations.
• Develop financial models and scenario analysis, to assess financial feasibility of initiatives before presenting to the business leaders.
• Support all finance related queries from the business units and provide advice on accounting implications relating to the product in accordance with financial reporting standards.
• Any other ad hoc projects as assigned.

⦁ Maintain a strong relationship with the key stakeholders and act as advisor.

⦁ Provide financial analysis, advice, and support to facilitate business decisions

⦁ Provide commercial support for new business initiatives and investment opportunity.

⦁ Identifying and flagging out risk and opportunity and create robust improvement plans.

Qualifications

• Degree in Accountancy or equivalent with minimum 4 years relevant working experience and at least 1 year of Financial Planning and Analysis experience or audit background is preferred.
• Meticulous and good analytical skills.
• Good communication with strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Able to handle ambiguity independently and deliver within strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Has tenacity and strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience in ERP systems such as SAP, Workday, MS Excel, Power BI.