Finance Planning & Forecasting Analyst

The Financial Planning and Forecasting Analyst will provide planning & forecasting support to either the Planning & Forecasting Lead or in-market FD. You will also be responsible for challenging and finalising the monthly and annual forecasts for the market as well as preparing monthly management reports for the in-market FD to evaluate performance. You are also responsible to coordinate and consolidate financial forecasting information, ensuring that managerial financial reporting is performed, in time and in the forms required by Corporate guidelines, facilitating managerial decision making.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following :

• Working with Corporate team to prepare in-market annual budget and communicate them to in-market finance team
• Responsible for creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
• Preparing internal management reports (DRM decks) for executive leadership and supporting their decision making
• Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the FD e.g. trend analysis for a product type
• Understand the link between plan & actuals, analyse the gap, challenge business for variations and define future growth plans
• Responsible to work with business partners to finalise plan / forecasts / management reports
• Responsible for the plan activities and draft management reports (e.g. MPR)
• Responsible for managing the core commercial cycle
• Being the point of contact for all management reporting questions
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts & performing trend analysis
• Participate and support continuous improvement initiatives
• Drive Planning & Forecasting process improvement for markets and scale to the KL Hub

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