Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary:

The Senior Financial Analyst supports financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis for the business. This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct people-management responsibility. The role provides reliable analysis and practical financial insight to support decision-making, performance management, and delivery of financial commitments.

The successful candidate combines strong financial-analysis skills, commercial awareness, attention to detail, and the ability to partner effectively with stakeholders across the organization.


Your role:

  • Lead assigned components of the annual operating plan, periodic forecast, and long-range planning process.

  • Prepare and analyze monthly financial results, including actual performance versus budget, forecast, and prior year.

  • Identify, quantify, and clearly explain material financial variances, risks, opportunities, and business drivers.

  • Develop and maintain financial models for revenue, margin, operating expenses, headcount, working capital, and cash flow.

  • Partner with functional and operational leaders to gather assumptions, challenge inputs, and improve forecast accuracy.

  • Work closely with the local /BSC accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting and decision support

  • Monthly financial performance reviews with BSC Functional, G-TEC Leads

  • Liaison with external vendors and suppliers on completing accounting tasks related to entities in scope

  • Prepare management reports, dashboards, commentary, and presentation materials for finance and business leadership.

  • Support month-end close through review of results, accruals, allocations, and key reporting controls.

  • Conduct profitability, pricing, project, and cost-center analysis to support commercial and operational decisions.

  • Develop business cases and investment analyses, including sensitivity analysis and return-on-investment assessments.

  • Improve the accuracy, efficiency, and automation of recurring finance reports and processes.

  • Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, data governance, and confidentiality requirements.

  • Maintain and reconcile cost centers, headcount tables

  • Manage controlling aspects of new transitions and related allocations

  • Handle ad hoc controlling, FP&A related requests

  • Ensure compliance with FLS policies, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and local statutory laws and regulations

  • Implement, and maintain effective internal controls for own area

Preferred Qualifications

  • Professional qualification or progress toward ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CFA, or equivalent.

  • Experience in a multinational, SSC, industrial, manufacturing environment.

  • Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot, SQL, or financial-reporting automation.

  • Familiarity with SOX, internal controls, and governance requirements.

  • Experience working with cross-functional business leaders and supporting operational or commercial decisions.

Your profile:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

  • 4–5 years of experience in FP&A, controlling, commercial finance, financial analysis, accounting, or audit.

  • Strong understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.

  • Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, scenario analysis, and large-data-set analysis.

  • Experience with ERP, financial planning, and reporting tools; SAP, Power BI, and Workday Adaptive Planning experience is beneficial.

  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

  • Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines, work independently, and deliver accurate outputs in a fast-paced environment.

  • Professional fluency in English; additional local-language skills may be beneficial.

What we offer you:

  • Friendly multicultural environment and team events

  • Life, accident and health insurance

  • Cafeteria package

  • Career development and training opportunity

  • Opportunity for hybrid work

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