Financial Planning and Platform Analysis Specialist - Business Intelligence, Shopee

About the Role

This role entails analyzing financial data for Shopee Thailand using SQL and Excel, leading P&L projections across various intervals, consolidating and analyzing SEA market performance, applying structured frameworks for insights, refining estimation and forecast solutions, and presenting actionable business-focused reports to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial performance both at platform level and on targeted initiative basis - identify business opportunities and influence budget approval and allocation process based on financial analysis
• Analyze financial performances across different Shopee markets in Southeast Asia and other Regions
• Manage internal cost and performance tracking process with the goal of improving this workflow over time
• Summarize key results and present to senior management on a bi-weekly basis or as required for project approvals
• Liaise internally and externally across multiple teams to obtain necessary information for analysis and ensure successful execution of given projects
• Support other functions in budget planning, budget request process inquiries, and budget execution on a daily basis
• Work closely with budget owners to support the annual, quarterly and monthly budget process and perform analysis on prior years/quarters/months spending
• Build forecasts using historic trends plus commercial input from business functions; perform monthly analysis and discuss the forecast with related budget owners and control monthly spending versus expected forecast

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or related fields
• 1-2 years of experience
• Prior experience in audit, finance, banking or consulting is an advantage
• Proficient with financial terms and concepts with good understanding of standard business P&L items
• Strong stakeholders management and communication skills
• Outstanding structural thinker, with strong time-management and organizational skills
• Self-driven with willingness to learn and improve; strong sense of responsibility and able to work under pressure to deliver results
• Fluent in English; Proficient in Excel; technical skills such as SQL are a plus