Senior Financial Planning Analyst

About the role:

• Coordinating the budget/forecast cycle, develop consolidated and department/country based budgets
• Monitoring, developing and producing of monthly reporting of dashboard/KPIs
• Monthly P&L analysis comparing actuals vs forecasts and budgets
• Rolling budget development on a continuous basis
• Maintain key metrics to help provide insights to business performance including CAC, churn, acquisition productivity, etc
• Working closely with the business to develop budgets and provide insightful and commercial commentary
• Cost benefit, business case analysis
• Implement performance measures that support leadership
• Business partner to company departments in evaluating various initiatives commercially
• Provide input and support for developing processes and systems
• Driving process efficiency
• Other ad hoc duties as required

Role requirements:

• 4+ years of previous experience in a similar position
• Experience in financial modelling, what-if scenarios, dynamic inputs
• Experience in managing budget cycles covering several departments / stakeholders
• Excel and spreadsheet (advanced level) modelling is essential
• Experience in FP&A / Commercial finance / financial modelling roles
• Relevant knowledge of accounting
• Proactive with a hands-on approach
• Analytical skills and ability to present financial analysis from a business perspective
• Commercially and structured, process driven mindset, likes “clean” excel tables and good attention to detail
• Flexible, team player
• Numerate, Logical, Enquiring, Analytical with the ability to “drill-down”
• Good working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint
• Advanced excel knowledge. Google sheets knowledge (preferred but not essential)
• Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data (preferred but not essential)
• Previous experience working with major accounting software (preferred but not essential)