Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

An innovative and creative digital agency has a vacancy for a Financial Planning and Analysis specialist.

Job function would be to support procurement processing, finance reporting and financial governance.

Key roles and responsibilities

Budgets and Forecasts:

• Prepares departmental P&L ensuring integrity of assumptions used
• Consistency of financial measures and metrics
• Appropriate resource allocation against plans to support brand strategic priorities
• Complete the brand planning budget tool and ensure integration into PS.IM / Syspro and ZBB target
• Consolidate the Brand Budgeting Tools and analyse PSIM phasing and spend category
• Prepares “Sources & Uses” process for optimising brand budgets on a monthly basis, by assessing the re-phasing of spend on a monthly basis and sweeping unused funds to the centre.
• Updated P&L and ZBB package monthly with course corrections and new phasings approved
• Ensuring PS.IM/Syspro is updated with ML approved incremental requests
• Send out target files and deadlines for budgets and forecasts to Brand teams

Business Performance Measurement

• Forecast Accuracy
• Prepare and analyse the forecast accuracy of full P&L function
• Prepare a weekly, monthly and quarterly portfolio profitability
• Prepare a portfolio post-campaign financial reviews (incl. ROI) in collaboration with brand teams as an input into after-action reviews
• Provide financial information to the team to include in their analysis for Brand
• Health and Innovation investment

Governance

• Accuracy and rigor on financial transaction and management
• Process and close the Ledger for respective cost centres on a monthly basis
• Assist in closing out PTP and other invoice related queries and manage relationship with the GCC
• Liaise with internal and external auditors to close out queries

Profile

• Relevant 3 year university degree in accounting, business, economics, engineering or similar.
• High sense for accuracy
• Computer skills (MS Office: Excel, Powerpoint, etc), with particularly strong Excel skills
• Good knowledge of consolidation & reporting tools (Cognos, TM1, BI)
• Knowledge of ERP Systems – SAP, Syspro
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills & problem solver
• Used to working with deadlines
• Ability to work in a well organised, accurate and reliable manner
• Working in a multi-cultural environment
• High level of service mindset
• Coordination skills
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Basic business sense
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values
• Presentation skills
• Able to work on own initiative and prioritize workload effectively
• Fluent English in speaking, reading and writing

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