Analyst - Finance - Chemical/Manufacturing

Commercial Finance Analyst

Job Purpose:

Support growth and profitability of business by providing insights and comprehensive analysis of financial performance to identify business improvement initiatives. Coordination of month end financial closing and financial planning and forecasting on business line level. Finance business partnering with regional sales managers, and global functions (R&D, Technology Group, Marketing, Sales).

Business Insights and Improvements:

- Perform detailed profitability analysis on quarterly basis, that include a ''cost-to-serve'' model detailing out cost allocation to lowest level in customer and product hierarchy, thus allowing profitability analysis of segments/products/regions/plants/etc to EBITDA level.

- Develop comparisons between periods and communicate to business teams by preparing presentation slides with comments and insights

- Promote and improve the use of Power-BI reporting in the business line

- Monitor and analyze business improvement initiatives (ANT/Wave)

- Provide support from financial perspective to Business and Finance functional projects

Job Requirements and Qualifications:

- Essential educational qualifications, relevant experience and requested skills.

- Chartered Accountant/Cost & Management Accountant/MBA (Finance) from a B-School with relevant experience

- 4 to 8 years of experience in financial analyst / project controlling functions

- Interested to work in chemical manufacturing industry with a Global MNC

- Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 applications including MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

- Knowledge of ERP system (SAP, PowerBi, SAP Analytical Cloud Preferred)

- Fluent in English both verbally and in writing

- Flexible, Feels comfortable in a demanding environment within an International context

- Have strong interpersonal skills, creates enthusiasm, be a driver of change, analytical and fact-based