Planning & Forecasting Analyst

Job Description

This Planning & Forecast Analyst role is provide support to the Planning & Forecasting Director. This includes managing the preparation of in-market annual, monthly peak load management and improvement in Core Commercial Cycle (CCC). You will need to prepare monthly management reports for the Markets to evaluate performance. Also, be responsible to coordinate and consolidate financial forecasting information, ensuring that managerial financial reporting is performed, in time and in the formats required by Corporate guidelines, facilitating managerial decision making.

• Working with P&F Director to prepare Market budget (Annual & Long Team Plan) and communicate them to Markets and P&F Analyst
• Provide support to the Planning & Finance Director with the preparation of plans to the Leadership Team.
• Responsible for the preparation of the monthly Opex, A&P and cash flow forecast for the key Markets.
• Accountable for creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the key Markets (CCC process)
• Compare forecasts against budgets and prior month forecasts.
• Performs variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
• Preparation of internal management reports (e.g. DRM, MPR, S&OP) for executive leadership & support decision making
• Support in creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market
• Supporting ad-hoc reporting requests from Area / Markets e.g. trend analysis for a product type
• Coordinate & Consolidate with Market P&F Analysts for Region to finalise plan/ forecasts/ management reports
  
  
  

Key Requirements

• University degree in Business Administration or Finance, ACCA, CPA/ CIMA, MBA desirable
• Demonstrable post qualification experience within a similar industry / MNC
• Budgeting, forecasting and reporting experience require.
• Preferred language literacy Mandarin & Cantonese.
  
  
  

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