The finance analystis responsible for tracking, forecasting, and budgeting costs. They act as a financial steward for department leaders, ensuring business operations are highly cost-efficient and aligned with budget limits along with other key financial planning responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Provide overall support for the period end results and preparation of forecast
- Create, update, prepare ongoing periodic business reports
- Working across multiple Finance functions to deliver Period forecast
- Understand key drivers of the PL
- Work on key region/customer initiatives to drive business and region performance
- Performance analysis, including explanation of variance to plan, forecast and year ago
- Support the annual operating plan (AOP) process
- Maintain complex Excel models
Qualifications
- 4 to 7 years of experience in finance, reporting, forecasting and planning for postgraduates (commerce, accounting, finance)
(3 to 5 years of finance experience for Chartered accounts preferred)
- Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, Business Objects, Essbase, PL understanding, trade promotions, reporting analytics.
- In depth functional knowledge with a key focus on budgeting, variance analysis, cost control, and drives automation in processes
- Mosaic, Cockpit /Tableau knowledge
- Robust excel skills.