Senior Business Analyst

Business Partnering and Process Efficiency, Forecasting and Budget Planning Process, Reporting and Operation Control

1. Business Partnering and Process Efficiency

• Lead the periodic performance reviews, generate recommendations based on analyses, and advise partners on fact-based actions that improve business performance and increase cost efficiency
• Build up from scratch financial modelings that involve huge data sets and be able to perform financial simulations for complex business cases
• Lead a simplified and efficient SOP that improves the accuracy, efficiency, and automation of business processes and reporting systems related to their job area.
• Act as Finance Lead in Business Partners' Initiatives for Productivity and Revenue Growth
• Leading: Independently take full responsibilities of recommendations/tasks/projects in their job area by aligning/influencing their line managers and other key stakeholders whoever impact to the recommendations.

2. Forecasting and budget planning process

• Lead the discussion with Business Partners (Senior Managers) to build up the monthly RE and annual BP budgeting. Understand Business Partners' activities to propose detailed budgeting based on priorities and provide analysis and insights that links financial reports to business strategies
• Liaise with Manager and other business analysts in Business Planning team to perform RE/BP process
• Act as the gatekeeper for all P&L lines, highlight risks, opportunities, and inaccurate numbers that impact RE/BP accuracy. Conduct Variance Analysis and provide comprehensive narratives on the actual performance
• Act as the key person to consolidate data inputs for the whole team in order to construct further analysis to different business partners

3. Reporting and Operation Control

• Coordinate with Accounting Team to perform monthly closing activities in a timely manner
• Generate monthly management reports for business review with high accuracy and insights
• Owner of operational process (IO release, verifying promotion schemes, PR/PO checking, etc.), and utilize system to drive process improvement

• University/Bachelor’s Degree

• Minimum 4 years of working experience (typically 4 – 7 years)

• Knowledge of Budget Management, Business Plan and Rolling Estimate: Advanced

• Partnering and Consulting:

+ Have a good understanding of the business area

+ Build good working relationships with partners to provide clear advice and support to improve financial understanding and awareness within the business

+ Support business decisions with clear explanations of the Department’s financial procedures and policies.

• Problem Solving:

+ Determine the potential causes of the problem

+ Analyze multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions

+ Proactively collaborate with impacted stakeholders