Job Purpose
Responsible for supporting the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis processes to drive informed business decisions. This role requires strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and the ability to communicate financial insights effectively to stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
- Preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts,
- Assist in long-term financial plans.
- Analyze financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, identifying trends and variances.
- Provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve financial performance and operational efficiency
- Contribution to cost and revenue decisions
- Prepare and distribute monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to management and stakeholders
- Ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting
- Maintain & continually improve standard templates use by all of Finance during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.
- Ad-hoc business performance reporting
- Build and maintain financial models to support decision-making and scenario analysis.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather inputs and assumptions for forecasts
- Monitor and update forecasts based on actual performance and changing business conditions.
- Analyze the trends of Key Performance Indicators (KPI), especially relating to financial metrics such as revenue, expenditure, and profit margin.
- Monitor KPI, and identify the cause of any unexpected variances
- Analyze contracts profitability/phases and use the necessary tools to monitor the expiry / creation of contracts
- Investigate and report to the Manager any inconsistencies or improprieties.
- Analyze data to ensure proper accounting procedures have been followed
- Prepare financial reports, charts, tables and other exhibits as requested
- Drive the business partnering efforts and implement commercial finance processes
- Develop and maintain dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track business performance
- KPI reporting requirements using the MIS tool and manage its long-term viability to ensure maximum ROI
- Forecast accuracy vs. actual performance.
- Timeliness of monthly and annual reports.
- Efficiency improvements in cost management and variance reduction.
- Experience with financial analysis tools such as Power BI to generate dynamic reports and insights.
- Proficiency in modern financial forecasting tools; experience with Python or SQL for financial reporting is a plus.
- Support Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) business unit analysts by being the first point of contact for issues and questions.
- Assist with the new business process and working with Finance and Business Managers.
- Responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance Projects as assigned by Management
- Demonstrate appropriate understanding/working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls, and apply them.
- Identify non-value-added processes within the department and seeks solutions.
- Process optimization
- Implement best practices in financial planning and analysis to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Work closely with department heads to provide financial guidance and support for their initiatives.
- Participate in strategic projects and provide financial analysis to evaluate business opportunities
- Assist in month-end and year-end closing processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, policies, and procedures.
- Support the preparation of financial statements and audit schedules.
- Ensure compliance to all relevant quality, health, safety and environmental management procedures and controls to guarantee employee safety, compliance, delivery of high-quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude
- Perform other related duties or assignments as directed
Qualifications, Experiences, Skills
- Master's degree in accounting / Finance; and a professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, ICWA, CMA, MBA Finance etc. with relevant FP&A analysis background is acceptable background for entry into this position.
- 3-5 years of experience in financial planning & analysis, accounting, or a related field.
- 3-5 Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
- Strong Accounting knowledge and analytical skills along with proven ability in budgeting/forecasting and financial analysis and attention to detail
- Good inter-personal skills, work well with teams, and have strong organizational & communication skills
- Excellent analytical, organizational and project management skills
- Commitment and ability to meet monthly closing and forecasting deadlines
- Business-partnering mindset; project management experience to implement process improvement;
- Independently manage multiple tasks, projects and ability to prioritize
- Advanced Excel / electronic spreadsheet skills; innovative.
- Experience in ERP systems (e.g., D365, Adaptive Insight) preferable
