Senior Financial Data Analyst

StarHub


Date: 9 hours ago
City: Petaling Jaya
Contract type: Full time

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Financial Data Analyst with strong technical and analytical capabilities to enhance our financial reporting, improve data flow, and support data-driven decision-making. This role combines financial acumen with technical expertise, making it ideal for a finance professional who thrives on leveraging systems, automation, and data to drive performance and efficiency. We are looking for a Senior Financial Data Analyst with strong technical and analytical capabilities to enhance our financial reporting, improve data flow, and support data-driven decision-making. This role combines financial acumen with technical expertise, making it ideal for a finance professional who thrives on leveraging systems, automation, and data to drive performance and efficiency.


Key Responsibilities:

• Lead or support finance transformation initiatives, including new system implementations, upgrades, and module rollouts.

• Manage project workstreams, across requirement gathering, testing, change management and user training.

• Promote best practices in finance systems and operations to improve scalability, control, and efficiency.

• Drive adoption of modern technologies that streamline financial planning, forecasting, and reporting.

• Serve as system owner for key finance tools (eg. Workday Adaptive Planning), managing configurations, integrations, and on-going enhancements.

• Provide end-user support including issue resolution, data validation, user access control and documentation.

• Monitor system performance and proactively address inefficiencies and data integrity issues. Solution Design & Analytics Enablement

• Collaborate with Finance, IT, and Business Unit stakeholders to understand challenges and recommend sustainable, system-enabled solutions.

• Design, document, and implement data flows, reporting structures, and process improvements.

• Evaluate new system features or integrations to enhance forecasting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities.


Finance Transformation & Process Improvement

• Lead or support finance transformation initiatives, including new system implementations, upgrades, and module rollouts.

• Manage project workstreams, across requirement gathering, testing, change management and user training.

• Promote best practices in finance systems and operations to improve scalability, control, and efficiency.

• Drive adoption of modern technologies that streamline financial planning, forecasting, and reporting.


System Ownership & Support

• Serve as system owner for key finance tools (eg. Workday Adaptive Planning), managing configurations, integrations, and on-going enhancements.

• Provide end-user support including issue resolution, data validation, user access control and documentation.

• Monitor system performance and proactively address inefficiencies and data integrity issues.


Solution Design & Analytics Enablement

• Collaborate with Finance, IT, and Business Unit stakeholders to understand challenges and recommend sustainable, system-enabled solutions.

• Design, document, and implement data flows, reporting structures, and process improvements.

• Evaluate new system features or integrations to enhance forecasting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities.


Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, major in Finance, Accounting or Information Systems or a related field.

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in financial systems analytics or FP&A roles with hand-on configuration and solution delivery.

• Strong understanding of finance processes and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (including Macro and Power Query) and familiar with ERP (eg. SAP) and planning system (eg. Workday Adaptive Planning).

• Experience in data automation, transformation, and financial reporting design.

• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and project coordination skills.

• Self-driven, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.


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