Senior Finance Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Own and be responsible for the delivery of all performance management requirements of the business. Provide value add through comprehensive understanding of financials, business context and analysis to support their decision making and strategic development.
• Own business and financial analysis, including development of period end and variance analysis
• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, reporting, incentive accruals, operating performance, profitability, and industry/competitor outcomes and trends
• Providing support for the development of period end headcount and variance analyses, supporting key performance indicator (KPI) metrics tracking and scorecard reporting, providing short and long-term incentive planning, budget management support and forecasting
• Lead and deliver on Finance transformation through technology adoption and streamlining
• Collaborate with senior members of the team and the business line CFOs to work on ad-hoc requests and present financial information
• Produce executive presentations, analysis and supporting materials for senior management
• Provide thought leadership in simplifying and articulating complex issues
• Collaborate with the team and to develop the staff to take up different/more value-added roles

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Chartered Accountant / MBA in finance with at least 11-15 years of working experience in financial planning, forecasting and variance/ trend analysis will be preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong technical, analytical, including Excel, PowerPoint
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members
• Ability to navigate multiple data sets and synthesize into cohesive presentation and recommendations
• Advanced Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Proficiency with reporting tools like MAQ, HFM, Cognos, Power BI
• Proficiency with SAP, PeopleSoft, or other relative ERP/ accounting tools