Senior Financial Analyst

IBM; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology and consulting company in Petaling Jaya seeks a Senior Business Planning Analyst to enable strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and financial modeling. Responsibilities include supporting countries in the Asia Pacific, conducting variance analysis, and collaborating with sales and operations. A bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, along with strong communication and organizational skills, is required. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years working experience in related roles.
• Experience in financial analysis and decision-making.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial analysis support to Asia Pacific countries.
• Analyze forecasts, budgets, actual results, and key metrics.
• Conduct variance analysis and deliver actionable insights.
• Collaborate with teams to gather inputs and understand cost/revenue drivers.

Skills

Strong written and oral communication skills in English

Proficiency in Chinese and/or Japanese

Strong planning and organizational skills

Ability to work independently

Collaborative mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related disciplines

Job description

At IBM, a career is more than just a job — it's a journey of growth, innovation, and impact. Whether you're contributing through design, development, consulting, or strategic thinking, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future. We don't just improve existing technologies — we explore bold ideas and solve problems that have never been solved before. If you're ready to engage with the next era of technology and make a meaningful difference, we want to hear from you.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Business Planning Analyst at IBM Malaysia, you will play a critical role in enabling strategic decision‑making by delivering data‑driven insights, developing financial models, and producing business forecasts. This role requires cross‑functional collaboration to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, and support the creation of annual plans and budgets.

You will work closely with local finance teams, the Market CFO, and the Finance Controller to drive IBM's financial success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide financial analysis support to countries across the Asia Pacific region.
• Analyze forecasts, budgets, actual results, and key business metrics.
• Conduct variance analysis and deliver actionable insights.
• Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Marketing to gather inputs and understand cost/revenue drivers.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related disciplines.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in Chinese and/or Japanese is an advantage.
• Ability to work independently in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across teams.
• Minimum 4 years working experience in related roles.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Job Title

Job ID

77957

City / Township / Village

PETALING JAYA

State / Province

Selangor

Country

Malaysia

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Enterprise Operations

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

(0088) IBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?