Financial Analyst

• Provide financial business support to the CBG business units through comprehensive, timely, and insightful analysis, offering actionable recommendations to drive decision-making.
  
• Lead the monthly and quarterly forecasting processes, as well as the annual budgeting exercise, by reviewing key financial assumptions and highlighting potential risks and issues.
  
• Conduct variance analysis comparing actual results against budgets and forecasts, delivering key insights to support business performance discussions.
  
• Oversee month-end closing activities for CBG business units, ensuring accurate recognition of revenue and expenses in compliance with accounting standards, and deliver detailed performance analysis.
  
• Monitor and review business unit costs to ensure alignment with approved budgets.
  
• Perform profitability analysis by product and brand to support strategic planning and resource allocation.
  
• Evaluate business cases and provide financial recommendations to support investment and operational decisions.
  
• Develop financial models and conduct scenario analyses to assess the viability of new initiatives prior to presenting to senior management.
  
• Respond to finance-related inquiries from business units and advise on the accounting implications of product decisions, ensuring compliance with relevant financial reporting standards.
  
• Support additional ad hoc projects and tasks as assigned.
  

• Maintain a strong relationship with the key stakeholders and act as advisor. 
  
• Provide financial analysis, advice, and support to facilitate business decisions
  
• Provide commercial support for new business initiatives and investment opportunity.
  
• Identifying and flagging out risk and opportunity and create robust improvement plans.
  

Requirements

•    Degree in Accountancy or equivalent with minimum 5 years relevant working experience and at least 2 year of Financial Planning and Analysis experience preferred.
  
• Meticulous and good analytical skills.
  
• Good communication with strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
  
• Able to handle ambiguity independently and deliver within strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Has tenacity and strong problem-solving skills.
  
• Experience in ERP systems such as SAP, Workday, MS Excel, Power BI.