Finance Analyst

Overview of the role:

This role will support the Finance Manager – FP&A with respect to business budgeting, forecasting & monthly reporting.

What you will do:

Budgeting and Forecasting 

• Support in the preparation of budgets for AFM in conjunction with the commercial business department to ensure reliability of the key assumptions. 
• Control and monitoring of operating budget, investigating variances where necessary. 
• Support in the re-forecasting of the budget during quarterly financial reviews recommending upward or downward adjustments considering market conditions and business requirements. 
• Support with the budgeting and forecasting: calendar, and process, templates and requirements, guidelines and assumptions, Power Point Presentations 

Management Reporting

• To support Finance Managers, manage and maintain month end actual reporting process, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness. 
• Perform analysis; Prepare standalone and aggregated periodic Management Packs 
• Support and maintain minimum KPIs and Metrics to be reported on a periodic basis at the level of: Divisions & Business Unit

P&L and Balance Sheet Management and Substantiation

• Ensure that all guidelines are followed related to governance of P&L and Balance sheet FS items 
• Ensure all related transaction are posted before the closure of books during each month-end. 
• Trend report and schedules should be updated monthly with relevant KPIs. 
• Review & analyze on monthly basis the misstatements under each Balance sheet G/L. 
• Liaise with various teams to identify the key issues and resolve the misstatements. 
• Support Audit requirements both Internal and external Audit

Commercial Finance and Business Support Analysis

• Support in analysis of Investments and Capex 
• Support in Principal analysis e.g., yen impact, payment terms. 
• Analysis of Inventory, Sales (Pricing) and GM by channel. 
• Prepare analysis by Showroom / Facility. 
• PCP and lease analysis. 
• Support in Strategic sourcing and cost 
• optimization opportunities. 

 FP&A Financial Reporting Systems & Dashboards 

• Understand the full end to end process of SAP, BPC and BIW system. 
• Understand dashboards using Power BI, Tableau and Alteryx resolving data reconciliation differences and advise on enhancements.

Others 

• Support the FP&A team in any adhoc project. 
• Support in P&L and BS reporting and uploading in the respective IT system for budgets, Forecasts, group half yearly and Annual reviews. 
• Coordinating with various stakeholders to maintain the accuracy and effective accounting