Job Summary The Area Analyst SGA drives accuracy, transparency, and quality in area SGA performance management, supporting the Area Analysis FPA Manager with timely insights for area leadership. As the area SGA subject-matter expert, the role ensures rigor in cost analysis, accrual quality, and forecasting across People Cost, Other SGA, and structural cost drivers. The role owns area SGA across month-end, Flash, ROFO, and Budget cycles. Partnering with Product analysts, ATR, GSC team and Country Managers, it strengthens cost visibility and decision support for the area. The role exists to transform SGA cost data into meaningful insights that drive efficiency, control, and informed cost management at the area level.
Key Accountabilities - Strategic Financial Ownership: Drive the area SGA analysis agenda in line with regional standards. Partner with Area Stakeholders on cost governance and accrual quality. Standardize analysis across functions and cost centres governance and provide actionable insights for cost decisions and savings tracking.
- Financial Planning Analysis: Maintain budgeting and forecasting models at UID and cost-centre level. Deliver timely, accurate analysis for area and regional decisions. Identify automation opportunities, analyse results, and communicate cost drivers to stakeholders.
- Global Collaboration: Link the area with the Regional Analysis CoE on SGA standards, methodology, and reporting. Support standardized reports and dashboards, and harmonize best practices for scalable, repeatable analysis.
- Reporting Performance Management: Own SGA reports and performance reviews, including WD7 to WD9 inputs. Monitor KPIs against cost objectives. Ensure data integrity, accrual accuracy, and comparable reporting with one-off documentation.
- Functional Leadership: Run the functional SGA agenda together with leaders and ensure budget is followed throughout the year and highlight area of concerns.
- Strengthen Business Partnering Responsibilities: Partner with Area FPA Leads, ATR teams, GSC team and Country Managers. Challenge unusual spends, identify risks/opportunities, and support decision-making.
- Enhance Transformation Automation: Focus: Expand beyond reporting and analysis. Own process standardization, automation, and AI-enabled improvements within the process and evaluate scalability.
- Strengthen Stakeholder Influence: Responsible to present insights and recommendations to area leadership and influence decisions through fact-based analysis.
Experience and Qualifications - Bachelor or Master in finance (CA/ MBA-finance)
- 8+ years of experience in finance and analysis domain
- Experience of financial modelling and budgeting and forecasting
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills
- Working proficiency on tools such as Microsoft Excel, SAP-BI/BW, Power BI.
