MSC Finance Senior Analyst, Food APAC - SEA
cargill · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Food and Beverage Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
18 h ago
Senior (5-10 yrs)
Full-time
Malaysia
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About the role
The Senior Analyst performs complex managerial accounting activities and partners with business leaders to support financial decision-making. They are responsible for preparing financial reports, analyzing data, and leading the development of management information systems to drive business performance.
What they look for
Managerial Accounting
Financial Reporting
Budgeting
Forecasting
Data Analysis
Cost Analysis
Management Information Systems
Business Performance Tracking
Decision Support
Risk Management
Control Reporting
Process Improvement
Data Integrity
Relationship Management
Requirements
The role requires a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience, with 5 years or more typically expected. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in financial analysis, reporting standards, and business metric development.
Full description
Job Purpose and Impact
- The Senior Professional, Managerial Accounting job performs complex managerial accounting activities and partners with business leaders to support financial decision making. With minimal supervision, this job prepares financial reports, analyzes and reviews financial data and makes recommendations on budgeting and forecasting processes. This job also leads the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions.
Key Accountabilities
- REPORT DRAFTING: Prepares complex financial and non financial reports for internal partners, analyzing and reviewing financial data to ensure relevant information is shared in a timely and accurate manner.
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TRACKING: Develops reports and dashboards to track business performance against plans, budgets, forecasts and other key performance indicators.
- DECISION SUPPORT: Reviews and communicates insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making.
- COST ANALYSIS: Reviews cost analysis for specific products, projects, or plants to better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Maintains knowledge of industry trends and accounting standards, ensuring compliance and driving process innovation and continuous improvement within the department to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
- MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Leads the implementation of effective management reporting practices to improve and ensure data integrity and relevancy.
- RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Cultivates and maintains close partnerships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs and collaborates with other finance leads to deliver on overall finance function expectations.
- RISK & CONTROL REPORTING: Reviews various complex reports including risk and mitigation controls reports, custom transaction code reports and sensitive role reports for gap assessment and cleanup activities to identify and address any gaps, vulnerabilities, or inefficiencies in an organization's control environment.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
