Finance Planning & Forecasting Analyst

GSK; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company in Malaysia is seeking a Financial Planning and Forecasting Analyst to provide support for budgeting and forecasting processes. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of relevant experience and proficiency in either CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or CPA qualifications. Responsibilities include preparing management reports, analyzing performance data, and maintaining financial models to drive strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 - 5 years of relevant working experience in finance.
• Experience in Planning & Forecasting roles within healthcare or life sciences.
• Ability to interpret and present financial data clearly.

Responsibilities

• Prepare in-market annual budget and communicate with finance team.
• Create and maintain financial models for forecasts.
• Prepare internal management reports for executive leadership.
• Analyze and compare historical results against budgets.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Budgeting

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Education

Professional finance qualifications (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA)

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

The Financial Planning and Forecasting Analyst will provide planning & forecasting support to either the Planning & Forecasting Lead or in-market FD. You will also be responsible for challenging and finalising the monthly and annual forecasts for the market as well as preparing monthly management reports for the in-market FD to evaluate performance. You are also responsible to coordinate and consolidate financial forecasting information, ensuring that managerial financial reporting is performed, in time and in the forms required by Corporate guidelines, facilitating managerial decision making.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Working with Corporate team to prepare in-market annual budget and communicate them to in-market finance team
• Responsible for creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
• Preparing internal management reports (DRM decks) for executive leadership and supporting their decision making
• Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the FD e.g. trend analysis for a product type
• Understand the link between plan & actuals, analyse the gap, challenge business for variations and define future growth plans
• Responsible to work with business partners to finalise plan/ forecasts/ management reports
• Responsible for the plan activities and draft management reports (e.g. MPR)
• Responsible for managing the core commercial cycle
• Being the point of contact for all management reporting questions
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts & performing trend analysis
• Participate and support continuous improvement initiatives
• Drive Planning & Forecasting process improvement for markets and scale to the KL Hub

Why you?

Key Qualifications:

• Professional finance qualifications (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA) preferred, with minimum 3 - 5 years of relevant working experience
• Proven experience in Planning & Forecasting roles within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences industry. Budgeting, forecasting and reporting experience required
• Excellent interpretation and presentation of financial data for decision making
• Resilience and ability to work within stretched deadlines
• High attention to detail for quality results and ability to zoom out and take a wider perspective
• An individual who gets energized to create opportunities by challenging the status quo, simplify and standardize global processes to create value and reduce waste
• Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity.
• Proficient in use of IT and software/ systems (Power BI will be an advantage), especially Excel skills.