Financial Planning and Accounting Analyst

The Financial Planning and Accounting Analyst is responsible for providing financial support for critical areas and time-bound processes such as the annual budget, periodic forecast, and ad-hoc analysis.  Assists in the preparation of various financial activities including data gathering, reconciliation, trending, modeling, forecasting, planning, and reporting.  Collects information from various areas across the company to assist in the building of models to provide insight to underlying business dynamics.

Role description

•            Prepares and reviews accurate and timely financial and business-related analyses, and forecasts. This includes, but is not limited to, cost of revenue, operating expenses, capital expenditure, cost analysis, sales results, and KPIs.

•            Compiles and prepares accurate and timely financial reports. Able to convey information in a meaningful way utilizing tables, graphs, and charts.

•            Supports monthly operating expense and head count reviews with cost center heads to discuss variations to budgets/forecast, identifying risk and opportunities as well as to define and implement corrective actions.

•            Liaise with divisions to understand trends, causes of unexpected variance to budget/forecast and provide insightful commentary.

•            Ensure that expenses/costs in assigned areas are properly recognized and recorded timely.

•            Prepares data reconciliation between accounting and FP&A.

•            Assist with financial input for monthly and quarterly corporate reports and flux analysis.

•            Support process to prepare detailed annual financial budgets and monthly financial forecasts.

•            Identify notable issues and orchestrate resolutions with team members.

•            Ad hoc financial projects, reporting and analysis.

•            Provide superior customer service and support to all internal departments.

Role requirements

Technical skills and abilities:

•            At least 3 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis (preferably in a blue-chip manufacturing environment).

•            Qualified or part qualified in CIMA (preferred) or ACCA/ACA equivalent.

•            Ability to create and implement reports and analysis from a cube reporting environment.

•            Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate financial matters to non-financial audience.

•            Data analytics and good IT skills – Proficiency in Excel, Power-Point, financial modelling, and analysis applications.

•            Ability to complete projects timely and accurately.

•            Ability to prioritize tasks, multitask, and work in a fast-paced environment.

•            Good interpersonal, strong organizational and analytical skills, high level of attention to detail.

•            Proactive, result oriented, driven, always bring a can-do attitude.

Emotional skills and abilities:

•            Proven capability in working effectively and in applying initiative

•            Problem solving mentality

•            Proactive in identifying and investigation of issues and presenting potential solutions

5 most important job specific skills:

• Accountability
• Proactive in identifying and investigation of issues and presenting potential solutions.
• Compliance and Integrity
• Attention to detail.
• Provide superior customer service and support to all internal departments.

What we offer

•            Purposeful & inclusive work environment

•            Dynamic culture in which customers are at the forefront

•            Being part of a highly qualified team that is committed to excellence 

•            Access to cutting-edge expertise through which you can make positive impact in the world around us.

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