Main Purpose:
The FP&A Senior Specialist will play a critical, hands-on role in driving the company's financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. This position requires a strong analytical background, exceptional technical skills, and the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights for leadership through clear financial models, dashboards, and executive presentations.
Area of Responsibility:
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead and execute the annual budgeting process, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning activities.
- Variance Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key drivers and trends.
- Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain complex financial models to support strategic decision-making, investment analysis, and business scenario planning.
- System Management: Utilize and optimize financial data from ERP systems, with a strong emphasis on leveraging capabilities for reporting and analysis with hands-on exposure to SAP, including strong familiarity with the SAP Fund Management (FM) module for budget control, commitments, and actuals tracking.
- Reporting & Presentation: Prepare high-quality PowerPoint presentations, executive dashboards, and comprehensive financial reports, clearly articulating financial performance, key variances, and strategic recommendations to senior management.
- Process Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to improve planning, budgeting, and reporting processes for enhanced efficiency and accuracy.
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor in Finance
Work Experience:
- 45 years of progressive professional experience in a Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong financial modeling capabilities is mandatory.
- Hands-on experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is required.
