Job Description

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Advisor, Business Financial Planning & Analysis job leads and advises on performing financial planning and analysis activities that integrate planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis to create a deep understanding of business performance and enable business strategy development. As a recognized subject matter expert in financial planning, analysis and reporting, this job reviews and conducts highly complex analyses to generate insights and drive continuous improvements to enhance business decision making.

Key Accountabilities

• FINANCIAL PLANNING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Demonstrates end to end understanding of the business, reviews financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis for the assigned business group or function, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and consistency, and translates financial metrics into meaningful insights to help improve decision making, performance and business growth.
• MODELING & ANALYSIS: Conducts financial evaluation of new business development opportunities, and develops and reviews ad hoc analysis and highly complex modeling including cost of services and associated trends, both financial and nonfinancial, to enable decision making and evaluate key performance indicators.
• CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Leads developing and implementing continuous improvements related to data and technology to drive standardization and simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• REPORTING & PRESENTATIONS: Performs highly complex financial reporting and presentations to improve the communication process of initiatives and results to business teams and other partners.
• TOOLS, MODELS & REPORTING: Influences to build strong partnerships with peers and senior leaders in cross functional financial teams to accomplish the finance strategy and strategic goals of the business or function, and leads the development and implementation of effective and efficient tools, models, scenario analysis, and reporting to provide insights and ensure accuracy and transparency.
• INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING: Manages key financial risks and leads implementing the monetization of integrated business planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and operating review for the business group or function.
• OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: Monitors key performance against strategic decisions by providing financial support to accomplish plans, including financial modeling, scenario planning, and valuation.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Leads commercial conversations, ensures accurate and complete collection of stakeholder inputs and thoughts, and presents quantitative summaries of future estimates to senior team members to improve decision making.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 10 years of relevant work experience in MNC of manufacturing industry background, typically including > 5 years senior experiences covering APAC scope of financial reporting and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning activities.
• Excellent ability in cross-country and cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management and leadership communication.
• CPA or equivalent certification. Demonstrate strong data analysis skill. Very good at excel, Powery Query, data digitalization and automation. AI experience is plus.