The HQ Finance Team (E-Commerce Business Unit) - Reporting Team (HQEC – RPT) holds primary responsibility for reporting on management and financial numbers, analyzing data for the HQ E-commerce team. This includes the generation of reports and other deliverables related to management and financial figures for the CFO, business partners, and other stakeholders' teams. The team is also responsible for maintaining all data relevant to reporting.

As a Senior Analyst with HQEC – RPT team, you will be producing various reports (excel, word, ppt or otherwise), especially requiring familiarity with Microsoft Excel and be comfortable with working with it most of the time, building and rolling templates and working with financial raw data. As a Senior analyst, you would be expected to not just prepare, but also to understand the figures that goes into each report, turning this understanding into analyst commentary where necessary. You would do this via working with various specialist finance teams and business teams, or performing granular investigation into the financial raw data. 

As you progress, you would be expected to gain an analytical sense, to be able to identify the crux of what needs to be analysed and explained in a sea of financial data, and be able to present this in the most concise and understandable manner to C-suite level stakeholders. 

Besides the routine work, you would also be expected to participate in special projects, which may involve new investigation work or improvement of existing processes, requiring both problem solving skills and the ability to work with new and unexplored territory.

Reporting and Closing Requirements

• Responsible for producing, reviewing, analyzing and issuing periodic reports with financial information and business insights, including but not limited to analysis of business trends and the potential impact on financial figures
• Resolving management team's queries on financial and business information
• Assisting in the preparation of Executive-level presentations and meetings, such as quarterly business reviews
• Developing and improving analytical methodologies and presentations to measure and showcase business performance. Rolling out new financial reporting templates that aids in understanding, whenever required.
• Supporting internal stakeholders, building relationships with various internal and external groups, and maintaining updated financial information.

Forecast Processes

• Understanding the various elements of the forecast (P&L) and providing detailed analysis of the data to all stakeholders (Controllers, Directors, CFO and others)
• Supporting and reviewing forecast trends and raising independent and objective questions to improve forecast accuracy
• Perfoming financial modeling improvements during forecast and budgeting processes to enhance process efficiency, supporting new initiatives and to accurately capture changing business economics and structure
• Uploading of forecast information onto system and assimilate forecast numbers into periodic financial reports prepared during closing; providing management with trend analysis and business insights or suggest possible adjustments to forecasted numbers to improve accuracy

Others

• Supporting and/or participating in special projects with opportunities to develop project leadership skills.
• Seeks continuous process improvement by finding opportunities to improve or automate processes or reports

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience Big 4 accounting firm experience desired but not a must
• Demonstrated well-developed analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Collaborates well with team members from finance, systems (IT), business etc
• Good in data analytics, possess strong problem solving skills with strong attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of commitment to meeting timelines
• Ability to summarise and explain clearly and concisely (in written form and verbally)
• Hands-on team player who possesses a can-do attitude and is able to handle ambiguity

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