Sr Financial Planning Analyst; PR

Provide financial planning and analysis services to a multi-business unit, multi-entity, multi-currency driven global business, and lead key planning and performance analysis activities, deliver decision-ready insights, and partner with leaders to strengthen financial discipline and business outcomes

• Lead accurate and timely short-, medium-, and long-term financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes across assigned business units and entities
• Develop, maintain, and review complex financial models to assess performance, evaluate business scenarios, and explain financial implications to management, in collaboration with business operations, business development, and technology teams
• Partner with business and functional leaders to translate operating plans into financial forecasts, challenge assumptions constructively, and identify risks and opportunities
• Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, and prior periods, and explain key variances, trends, and drivers with clear recommendations for action
• Prepare and lead financial analyses and presentations for management reviews, ensuring conclusions are accurate, concise, and relevant to decisions
• Manage assigned portions of the semiannual Mid-Range Plan (MRP), annual budget, periodic forecasts, and consolidation processes, and coordinate inputs and resolve data issues
• Recommend and monitor meaningful financial and operational KPIs that measure strategic and project-based performance
• Perform ad hoc, comparative, and historical analysis to inform investment, resource allocation, pricing, cost management, and other business decisions
• Identify opportunities to improve planning methods, reporting, controls, and analytical tools, and lead implementation of approved improvements
• Promote consistent application of financial policies, data integrity, and effective use of ERP and planning systems, and document key assumptions and processes
• Proactively share knowledge and technical guidance with associates and review assigned analytical work to ensure quality and consistency

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
• Give manager best advice
• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
• Exemplify Company Core Values:
  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
• Recommend viable improvements proactively
• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field; equivalent education and experience may be considered
• 5 years' experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or business analysis, including ownership of planning or forecasting deliverables
• Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting
• Demonstrated advanced analytical and financial modeling skills, including the ability to assess complex data, test assumptions, and communicate conclusions
• Demonstrated critical thinking, sound judgment, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Demonstrated experience with a global, multi-entity, multi-currency organization
• Demonstrated advanced Excel modeling skills, including Pivot Tables, data visualization, and VBA or other automation tools
• Demonstrated experience with financial planning and analysis platforms and process improvements or systems implementations.
• Demonstrated experience in a project-based business where results are measured by project
• Demonstrated advanced experience with financial modules with an ERP or planning system
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, less than 15%

• Experience in a business with foreign ownership, preferably Japanese
• CFA or CPA