We are looking for a proactive and analytical finance professional to support financial planning, reporting, profitability analysis, and business performance reviews across regional and country operations. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with data, translating numbers into business insights, and partnering with stakeholders across different markets to support better decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Prepare financial models, planning templates, and analysis to support management reporting and business decision-making.
- Extract, validate, and consolidate data from multiple sources to ensure reporting is accurate, complete, and reliable.
- Perform variance analysis by comparing actual results against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, highlighting key drivers and trends.
- Support month-end financial reporting and analysis for regional and global management reviews.
- Assist in preparing financial insights, commentaries, and presentation materials for management discussions.
Regional and Country Performance Analysis
- Prepare month-end reporting and performance analysis for various regions and countries.
- Support profitability analysis by market, region, or business segment to help management understand financial performance and improvement opportunities.
- Work closely with local country teams to review financial results, clarify variances, and support new market financial evaluations.
- Provide clear and practical analysis to support business planning, resource allocation, and performance monitoring.
Benchmarking and Business Insights
- Conduct competitor benchmarking and market-related financial analysis to support strategic planning and business reviews.
- Identify financial trends, risks, opportunities, and improvement areas through structured data analysis.
- Translate financial analysis into meaningful insights that can be understood by both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Process Improvement and Projects
- Support process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reporting accuracy, and overall effectiveness of finance processes.
- Contribute to automation, reporting enhancements, and value-stream improvement initiatives where applicable.
- Support the manager in ad hoc reporting, business reviews, and other finance-related projects as required.
- Perform other tasks and assignments as directed by management from time to time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
- Preferably at least 3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, financial analysis, or a related finance function.
- Experience in a multinational or regional business environment will be an added advantage.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to prepare accurate analysis and clear presentation materials.
- Experience with business intelligence tools, SAP, ERP systems, or other financial reporting systems will be an advantage.
- Good understanding of accounting, financial management, financial analysis, and financial operations processes.
- Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail and the ability to work with large sets of data.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to liaise across departments and countries.
- Proactive, willing to learn, and able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
