Finance Business Analyst

What you'll be doing?

Financial Analysis

• Identify and recommend efficiencies and cost saving opportunities across all Global Technology.
• Collaborate with controllers to review month end financials and ensure all variances to budget are adequately explained.
• Highlight any anomalies that require follow up actions.
• Collaborate with IT business partners to evaluate the effectiveness of project spend via financial and non-financial KPIs.
• Ensure up-to-date accounting standards regulations, quality level of data collection at source.
• Attach to individual IT domains to gather more IT specific insights and facilitate a balanced discussion between operational efficiency and financial accuracy.

Budget/Forecast Planning

• Analyze cost, projects and spending to identify trends and opportunities
• Conduct frequent trend analysis and consolidate for management decision making
• Lead the budgeting process from start to end, ensuring effective communication across global stakeholders and standardization of review process
• Proficient in slides preparation and confident to present to senior management

Reporting

• Proactively look to improvise existing processes to cope with the dynamic business environment
• Develop and maintain reporting required to monitor results at global level
• Standardize division PNL analysis, business case template and reporting tool
• Assist IT leaders to assess capex requirements for new projects and facilitate official sign-offs
• Support governance of spending through project managing the approval process for opex and capex items, including collation of documents required for approvals
• Conduct training for basic financial literacy and handle upcoming changes like IAS38, Singapore GST increase, Fixed assets (software) distinction, etc.

Control

• Document and refine SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for both internal IT and external cross departments stakeholders; ensure the SOP is well communicated to corporate, compliance to company policies, accounting treatments, systems and audit standards
• Gatekeeper to global IT spending request
• Perform any other ad hoc duties requested by your manager
• Proactive in finding efficiencies such as concentration risk in key vendors, proposing a more agile approval process, etc.

Ideal Candidate

• Degree holder in Finance, Accounting, Business Management or related field
• 2 to 4 years related work experience as a Business Analyst in a sizable commercial organisation
• Strong Microsoft PC based applications – Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
• Microsoft Strategy, Power BI, SAP BPC, SAP FICO and SAP COUPA knowledge is a plus
• Excellent command of the English language and excellent communication skills
• Strong quantitative skills and able to analyse a business both statistically and conceptually
• Ability to format analytical works into presentation forms.
• Confident in dealing with ambiguity and resourceful to achieve results
• Experienced in implementing change management from start to end, handling discussions with senior leaders, stakeholders and driving a change in mindset
• High degree of integrity and confidentiality with a keen sense of business/financial acumen