Financial Planning & Analysis Specialist

Job Description

• Analyze the trends of key performance indicators (KPIs), especially relating to financial metrics such as sales, expenses, and profit margin.
• Monitor KPIs and identify the cause of any unexpected variances.
• Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecasts.
• Ad-hoc business performance reporting.
• Prepare financial and performance reports and validate the data received from various units and departments.
• Present the monthly and quarterly financial reports of various units and departments.
• Implement a business intelligence tool and dashboard reports.
• Develop financial models and analyze them to support strategic initiatives, predict growth, and forecast performance.
• Support the management team and Department Leaders with data-driven analysis.
• Build annual budgets and forecasts for different business units and consolidate them into one master budget.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics; or an MBA graduate. 
• General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles.
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels.
• High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity and compliance.
• Comfortable navigating through gray areas without clear solutions.
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Self-starter with good time management skills when urgent deadlines need to be met.
• Proficiency in English, Power BI and Python.