FP&A Cost Performance Senior Analyst

Business Partnering and Performance Insights:

• Establish and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant Business/Function Leadership team. Ensure underlying performance is well understood. Proactively challenge and propose performance improvements. Monitor and investigate anomalies and trends.
• Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope: Ensure robust and timely forecasts. Deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.
• Supervise and support cost reduction initiatives: Ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability. Analyze and interpret actuals. Support reporting and cost allocation processes.

Strategy Planning :

• Support the annual planning process: Ensure plans are appropriately challenged and assured.
• Produce detailed cost forecasts covering pre and post allocation view: Draw insights and highlight areas where performance targets are not being met.
• Submit plan/forecast data into relevant cost management systems: Ensure data quality in the submissions.
• Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions: Understand the implications balancing risk and reward.
• Participate in projects and provide financial insight.

Performance Reporting :

• Responsible for the cost performance reporting activities of the respective business.
• Provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information.
• Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly/quarterly basis: Update in-year outlook.
• Provide input for the MI recharge process for the entities: Ensure costs are recharged fairly and accurately.
• Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI: Ensure integrity and accuracy to meet business requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

• Continuously improve cost related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

Must have educational qualifications :

• Finance or Engineering Subject area Degree level or equivalent

Preferred education/certifications :

• Master s Degree or other qualification in a finance field e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants

Minimum years of proven experience :

• 5 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting

Preferred experience:

Experience within global, complex and matrix organizations in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, preferably in oil gas or retail or logistics or manufacturing or asset-based businesses.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

• Knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.
• Continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.
• Experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior partners.