Senior Analyst, Food APAC - SEAANZ

Cargill Russia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global agricultural firm is seeking a Senior Analyst in Kuala Lumpur to perform financial planning and analysis. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience, focusing on budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. This role requires strong skills in Excel, SAP, and Power BI, as well as the ability to lead improvements in financial processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience; typically reflects 5 years or more.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and provides timely financial planning and analysis.
• Partners for financial evaluation of new business opportunities.
• Leads improvements related to data and technology.
• Performs complex financial reporting and presentations.
• Builds partnerships with cross-functional financial teams.
• Monitors performance against strategic decisions.
• Coordinates commercial conversations and prepares quantitative summaries.

Skills

Financial Planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial Reporting

Data Analysis

Excel

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Analyst Food APAC-SEAANZ job performs and reviews financial planning and analysis activities that integrate planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis to create a deep understanding of business performance and enable business strategy development. With minimal supervision, this job conducts complex analyses to generate insights and leads to implementing continuous improvements to enhance business decision making.

Key Accountabilities

• FINANCIAL PLANNING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Reviews and provides timely, accurate and consistent financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis for the assigned business group or function, translating financial metrics into relevant insights to help improve decision making, performance and business growth.

• MODELING & ANALYSIS: Partners to perform financial evaluation of new business development opportunities, and develops ad hoc analysis and complex modeling including cost of services and associated trends, both financial and non-financial, to enable decision making and evaluate key performance indicators.

• CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Leads implementing improvements related to data and technology to support standardization and simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.

• REPORTING & PRESENTATIONS: Performs complex financial reporting and presentations to improve the communication process of initiatives and results to business teams and other partners.

• TOOLS, MODELS & PRESENTATION: Builds strong partnerships with peers in cross functional financial teams to accomplish the finance strategy and strategic goals of the business or function, developing and implementing effective and efficient tools, benchmarking, models and reporting to provide insights and ensure accuracy and transparency. Good at using EXCEL, SAP, PBI.

• INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING: Partners to manage key financial risks and implement the monetization of integrated business planning, forecasting and operating review for the business group or function.

• OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: Monitors performance against strategic decisions by providing financial support to accomplish plans, including financial modeling, scenario planning, and valuation.

• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Coordinates commercial conversations, reviews collected stakeholder inputs and thoughts, and prepares quantitative summaries of future estimates to present to senior team members to improve decision making.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.