The Senior FP&A and Controlling Analyst will lead financial planning processes, manage operational budgets, and drive cost optimization initiatives across the organization.
Senior FP&A Analyst
📜 Description
- Perform monthly variance analysis and present findings to ensure accuracy in financial reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional finance teams to maintain data consistency and accuracy.
- Coordinate monthly forecasting and annual budgeting processes across business units.
- Prepare high-impact financial presentations for executive management and the Board.
- Participate in strategic planning and long-range financial modeling.
- Lead initiatives to optimize financial monitoring and enhance reporting systems.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience: 5 to 7 years of relevant FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally in a multi-entity or global environment.
- Education: Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Technical Expertise: Superior financial modeling skills in Excel; hands-on experience with FP&A planning and consolidation tools (e.g., Pigment, Anaplan, Hyperion) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Workforce Planning & Financial Rigor: Solid understanding of workforce planning and detailed labor cost driver analysis, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency, and key business drivers.
- Ownership & Critical Thinking: Highly autonomous and proactive, with the ability to prioritize, manage deliverables independently, anticipate issues, and constructively challenge assumptions, processes, and ways of working.
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Strong team player who adapts well to changing priorities and actively looks for opportunities to simplify processes, leverage technology and AI, and improve Finance efficiency and business impact.
✨ Benefits
- Virtual onboarding and opportunities for team interaction.
- Work flexibility with hybrid and remote work policies.
- Generous paid time-off policy.
- Lifestyle allowance.
- Stock options for full-time employees.
- Employee Resource Groups for community support.
Full job description
About the Role
We are looking for a high-performing Senior FP&A Analyst with 5 to 7 years of experience to join our Finance team.
In this strategic and highly visible role, you will play a key part in steering the Group’s financial performance. You will lead the financial planning and performance management cycles, including monthly actuals closing, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning, while providing clear, actionable insights to management.
Key Responsibilities
- Variance Analysis & Monthly Closing Presentation: Perform monthly actuals vs. budget and forecast analyses, identify key performance drivers and risks. Ensure a high level of accuracy and rigor in financial analysis and translate complex data into clear, concise, and actionable messages.
- Cross-Functional Finance Collaboration: Work closely and proactively with Finance team members (Business Analysis, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Consolidation,etc) to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and alignment across Finance operations.
- Planning & Consolidation: Coordinate and consolidate monthly forecasting cycles and the annual budget process across business units.
- Executive & Board Reporting: Prepare high-impact financial presentations, reports, and dashboards for Executive Management and the Board of Directors.
- Strategic Planning: Actively participate in the preparation, strategic modeling, and alignment of the Group’s 5-Year Long-Range Plan.
- Labor Cost Analytics: Lead the tracking, analysis, and optimization of Group-wide labor costs and headcount metrics.
- Automation & Process Improvement: Lead initiatives to optimize financial monitoring, streamline data workflows, and enhance internal reporting systems. Leverage AI and automation capabilities to improve and accelerate financial processes.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience: 5 to 7 years of relevant FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally in a multi-entity or global environment.
- Education: Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Technical Expertise: Superior financial modeling skills in Excel; hands-on experience with FP&A planning and consolidation tools (e.g., Pigment, Anaplan, Hyperion) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Workforce Planning & Financial Rigor: Solid understanding of workforce planning and detailed labor cost driver analysis, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency, and key business drivers.
- Communication & Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of presenting complex financial analysis to VP-level stakeholders, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across Finance and the wider organization, in a remote and distributed environment.
- Ownership & Critical Thinking: Highly autonomous and proactive, with the ability to prioritize, manage deliverables independently, anticipate issues, and constructively challenge assumptions, processes, and ways of working.
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Strong team player who adapts well to changing priorities and actively looks for opportunities to simplify processes, leverage technology and AI, and improve Finance efficiency and business impact.
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