Group Financial Analyst

Role overview:

In this role, you will collaborate with country finance teams, divisional leaders, and senior management to support management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis across the Group. You will turn financial and operational data into meaningful insights that improve business performance and support management decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting & Performance Analysis

• Coordinate and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results across Group entities, divisions, and countries.
• Prepare management reporting packages, including executive commentary, KPI analysis, and explanations of material variances.
• Analyze performance against budget, forecast, and prior year across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, profitability, working capital, and cash flow.
• Investigate key performance drivers and provide practical recommendations to management.
• Ensure financial information submitted through Group reporting systems is accurate, complete, and consistent with Group standards.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning

• Coordinate annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning across countries and business units.
• Review submissions, challenge key assumptions, and consolidate risks and opportunities against approved plans.
• Partner with country finance teams to improve forecast accuracy and support corrective actions.
• Develop scenario models and sensitivity analyses to support strategic planning.

Business Partnering & Decision Support

• Build strong working relationships with country finance managers, divisional leaders, Accounting, Treasury, and operational teams.
• Provide financial information and analysis for the Executive Committee, Board, shareholders, banks, and auditors.
• Develop financial models for business cases, capital expenditure, investments, restructuring, and growth initiatives.

Reporting Systems & Process Improvement

• Maintain and enhance Group reports, dashboards, and standardized management reporting.
• Identify opportunities to streamline budgeting, forecasting, closing, and reporting processes through standardization and automation.
• Collaborate with IT and system owners to maintain reliable planning and reporting platforms.
• Promote consistent KPI definitions and reporting standards across countries.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Approximately 4 - 6 years of experience in FP&A, audit, financial analysis, management reporting, corporate finance, or business finance.
• Experience working in a multinational, multi-country, or multi-entity environment is strongly preferred.
• Good understanding of financial statements, management accounting, and consolidated financial reporting.
• Knowledge of IFRS is preferred.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Technical Skills

• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to build financial models and executive-ready presentations.
• Exposure to enterprise planning platforms such as Solver, IBM TM1 Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, SAP BPC, Anaplan, or similar systems is an advantage.
• Experience using Power BI or similar business intelligence tools for dashboards and performance analysis is an advantage.
• Able to interpret complex financial and operational data, identify key drivers, and reach sound conclusions.
• Committed to data quality, consistency, accuracy, and timely delivery.
• Confident in building relationships and constructively challenging stakeholders across different functions, countries, and seniority levels.
• Able to explain complex financial information to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Takes initiative, solves problems, and continuously looks for opportunities to improve processes.
• Able to manage multiple reporting cycles and deadlines in a fast-paced Group environment.