Position Purpose / Context

This role is responsible in designing effective budget models for departments and entire company together with FP&A head and analysis financial information to ensure all operations are within budget.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

Budget Preparation (BP, LRP and RE)

•  Design effective budget models for departments and the entire company in order for respective departments to provide necessary information
• Analyze financial information to ensure all operations provide proper information and expenses for budget preparation
• Forecast future budget needs together with respective departments
• Design and implement effective budgeting policies and procedures
• Determine whether budget proposals are in compliance with regulations
• Develop a final budgetary agreement with respective departments and management
• Suggest spending improvement or optimization

Financial Analysis

• Decision support - responsible provide analysis to show the variances between forecast and actual in order for management to make necessary decision
• Performs cost-benefit analyses if necessary
• Analyze trends affecting expenditures and adjust budget accordingly.
• Identifying variances between budgeted and actual financial results at the end of each reporting period

Ad hoc Assignment

• Prepare any ad-hoc reports which required by Head of FP&A
• Provide and review accurate information in BR deck
• Train and guide non-finance partners in regard to finance and internal control policies and procedures
• Participate in physical stock counts – minimum 3 times in a year

Key Skills and Competencies required

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence different internal stakeholders to enable business and performance delivery
• Proven track record of managing short-term business delivery and unlocking long-term growth opportunities
• Strong self-leadership – driven, taking initiative, creating possibilities
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills to help shape and model the desired culture
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to read, understand, verbally exchange information and compose written material for business purposes in English
• Ability to express ideas and information in an organized and logical manner
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
• Quantitative and analytical skills for problem solving and issue/risk mitigation
• Innovates and effects continuous improvement
• Strong analytical, logical and methodical thinking
• Excellent in priorisation and time management
• Able to work under pressure with tight deadline especially during month end closing

Functional Skills:

• Strong knowledge of finance and accounting principles
• Able to perform processes related to and prepare closing, consolidation and reconciliation tasks; financial statements; planning, management with minimum supervision
• Able to perform and own end to end planning, budgeting and forecasting tasks with minimum supervision and reviews budget status and findings with higher management
• Ability to use computer applications as required – Microsoft applications especially Excel, SAP and others

Related Position Requirements/Qualifications

• Financial planning and analysis relevant experience or similar role
• Minimum 3 years
• CPA (or) MBA
• University/Bachelor’s Degree