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About the role
The role involves supporting annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis to drive business performance and profitability. Additionally, the analyst will prepare management reports, develop KPI dashboards, and lead process automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and possess a professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, or CFA. A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in FP&A or management accounting within retail, FMCG, or e-commerce sectors is preferred.
Full description
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Support annual budgeting, forecasting, mid-term planning, and cash flow planning processes.
- Monitor and analyze sales, gross profit, operating expenses, and business profitability, identify key business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Conduct variance analysis between budget, forecast, and actual results, and provide actionable recommendations to improve business performance.
- Support business expansion, new business initiatives, investment proposals, ROI evaluations, and strategic projects through financial modeling and analysis.
- Assist in cost control initiatives, productivity improvement projects, and profit optimization opportunities across the business.
Management Reporting & Business Insights
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual management reviews, including business performance presentations to local and regional management.
- Prepare management reports, business performance reviews, executive presentations, and financial analysis.
- Drive reporting enhancement, process standardization, automation, and finance transformation initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Identify trends and provide recommendations to improve business performance.
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards to monitor business performance and support management decision-making.
Team & Personal Contribution
- Understand departmental and company objectives and contribute to achieving business targets through proactive planning and execution.
- Collaborate effectively across functions and support teams to achieve departmental objectives.
- Demonstrate ownership and accountability for assigned responsibilities and projects.
- Deliver high-quality work within agreed timelines while effectively managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Identify issues proactively, perform root cause analysis, and propose practical solutions under appropriate guidance.
- Perform ad hoc analysis and support management requests as required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related disciplines.
- CPA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent professional qualifications are required.
- 5-8 years of experience in FP&A, management accounting, business planning, corporate planning, or commercial finance is preferred.
- Experience in retail, FMCG, e-commerce, or multinational organizations is preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a business-oriented mindset.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Good command of English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
*Candidates with more experience will be considered as Assistant Manager.
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