Business Analyst - Finance (Financial Planning and Analysis)

Job Summary
1.1 Business Partner for Business unit and Value stream responsible for analyzing and monitoring
current, future, and strategic cost initiatives.
1.2 Specific activities may include: cost initiatives, forecasting, internal reporting, variance analysis,
modeling and other discretionary projects as directed by management.
1.3 Working as a member of the controlling team, this position primarily performs day-to-day finance
related activities designed to analyze and monitor the company’s cost initiatives and drive for results.

Job Scope
2.1 KPI tracking and analysis for plant by value stream and highlight opportunities and risks for
management attention.
2.2 On-time monthly reporting of plant KPI by value stream to manufacturing Department Heads and
quarterly to the Board.
2.3 Monitoring plant overheads by value stream and highlight significant deviation, ensure corrective
measures are specified and track that the measures are implemented.
2.4 Develop financial analysis tools to assist in management decision.
2.5 Costing of new products and guiding project managers on cost decisions
2.6 Checking inputs for new product calculations for reasonableness and collecting evidence for
documentation.
2.7 Tracking of new and transferred products‘ details and cost performance.
2.8 Maintenance of Costing/Accounting Data in SAP system.
2.9 Costing of new products in SAP system.
2.10 Transfer Price calculation, maintenance and communication.
2.11 Cost tracking and analysis of key products in the plant against provided target.
2.12 Ensure improvement activities on key products have been specified by respective departments and
track their implementation.
2.13 On-time monthly reporting of key products cost performance to manufacturing Department Heads
and quarterly to the Board.
2.14 Responsible for the forecast and product costing of new products during annual Business Plan.
2.15 Become a key user in SAP knowing necessary functionalities and advise/guide fellow associates.
2.16 Documentation of Working Instructions for existing and new tasks.
2.17 Undertake improvement activities/projects in the department.
2.18 Ad-hoc support related to finance and controlling topics.

• At least a Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree, Master's Degree, Finance/Accountancy/Banking or equivalent.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA/CA/CPA is an added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years of working experience in Financial planning and analysis / Controlling supporting manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to manage tasks with high complexities and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Must always be a self-starter able to work independently and interface with all relevant internal teams and external business partners.
• Knowledge of business intelligence tools and dashboard (Microsoft Power BI).
• SAP Experience in advantage.
• Strong in excel (power query and macro).