Senior Financial Analyst

Education and Experience

• Must be Qualified Chartered Accountant
• Must have 2 Years relevant experience in FP&A in product or Pharma Industry
• A minimum of 4-5 years progressive working experience, 2 years should be relevant FP&A experience in a product Industry.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.
• Education: Chartered Accountant
• Computer literacy
• Experience in using SAP S4 HANA
• Experience in system planning tools such as BPC/TM1 etc
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools
• Language literacy
• English (Oral and written)

Reporting to : Finance Manager in Singapore

Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategy planning

• Responsible for preparation of financial plans (LRP, PLN, LBE, ACT, Quarterly projections), submission in Global planning systems (BPC, SAP) and Actuals Variance analysis vs Plan/forecast.
• Lead the financial planning & reporting processes including design of templates & processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Timely address of queries from various stakeholders
• Analyze performance (tracking revenue & expenses regularly) and provide variance explanations and recommendations for operational efficiency and provide business counseling to relevant stakeholders, with the objective of adding value to the business.
• Understand, communicate, and explain variance within the business. Identify root causes and follow up actions for each.
• Advise business teams on process-related matters that arise.
• Act as primary liaison with line of Asia consolidations team to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information

Business Partnering:

• Partner with India commercial leadership with supervision of Head Commercial Finance to drive commercial / financial objectives by leading affiliate or country-specific projects.
• Create P&L statements and other reports on financial performance for executive management to review.
• Preparation of monthly business review deck in collaboration with functional stakeholders
• Leading finance on S&OP discussions for benchmark analysis & demand assumptions working with Supply Chain and commercial team.

Ad-hoc Projects, Process Improvement and Expense Efficiency

• To take leadership or to provide support towards any business or finance projects as they arise.
• To drive excellence in FP&A outputs
• To identify and drive continuous process improvement, particularly around financial planning.
• To identify and drive continuous process standardization and simplification to improve efficiency.
• Expertise

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a range of culturally and functionally diverse people.

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies (includes Licenses, Credentials)

• Effectively manage the engagement and collaboration of the team to achieve a common goal
• Strong commercial analytical skill, strategy thinking, financial analysis and finance modelling skill
• Agile: could react quickly to requests in a short deadline and able to deliver with limited information or resources
• Process improvements & simplification
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively influence people
• Previous FP&A roles in pharmaceutical manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Previous Cost Accounting experience preferred.
• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics Required.