Finance Analyst: Finance Planning, Analysis & Reporting

THE ROLE:

Are you a driven finance professional eager to make a significant impact? We're looking for a highly skilled Finance Analyst to join our dynamic team in Business Analytics, Planning & Reporting (BAPR). As a Finance Analyst, you'll play a crucial role in delivering actionable financial insights that guide strategic decision-making across the Finance organization. You'll partner with cross-functional teams to analyze financial data and provide in-depth reporting that drives business outcomes.

This role offers incredible potential for growth and advancement. You'll develop your skills in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your contributions are valued. If you're passionate about finance, data-driven decision-making, and making a real difference, we want to hear from you!

THE PERSON:

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities with a strong sense of teamwork and accountability.
• Proactive, positive, and solution-oriented mindset with a high level of ownership.
• Strong communication and business writing skills, with the ability to present insights clearly to senior audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, challenge assumptions, and provide sound recommendations in a dynamic environment.
• Comfortable interacting with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, and meeting tight deadlines.
• Highly independent, detail-oriented, and analytical, with minimal supervision required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the preparation and analysis of financial reporting packages, including corporate and executive-level reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and insights.
• Perform month end close, expenses variance analysis of actual results versus forecast, expense review and accruals/reclassification and support accounting treatment.
• Drive annual budget and quarterly forecast cycles, providing analytical support and recommendations to leadership.
• Coordinate and oversee recurring close and reporting activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
• Partner with leadership in project management by monitoring project timeline and liaising with business partner to follow-up timely on action items till closure. Efficiently collaborate meetings/projects and keep track on all updates.
• Proactively identify, challenge, and improve existing processes to enhance efficiency, controls, and data quality.
• Lead KPI and metrics tracking, analysis, and performance measurement to support business objectives.
• Ensure compliance with operational controls, audit requirements, SOX, regulatory, statutory, and other governance standards.
• Provide guidance and informal mentoring to junior analysts, supporting team capability development.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Solid experience in finance reporting, analytics, and business partnering environments.
• Expert/Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience connecting or dealing with multiple data sources using Excel, Power BI, SQL or other tools.
• Hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting and new report or dashboard development are added advantage.
• SAP, Macro, Power Query, RPA & AI-enabled finance solutions is a strong advantage.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting / Finance or professional qualification.