Finance Planning Lead - Forecasting & Strategy

We Connect Hr Solutions Opc; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

We Connect Hr Solutions Opc is seeking a Senior FP&A professional in the Philippines to lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning. You will build and maintain financial models, consolidate inputs, and provide insightful analyses to guide senior leadership.

The role partners with business units on pricing, cost management, headcount, and capital investment decisions. You will mentor analysts, streamline reporting, ensure data quality, and support audits while upholding accuracy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting & Economics.
• 3–5 years in FP&A, corporate finance, or related roles.
• 1–2 years of team leadership or mentoring analysts.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Strong grasp of financial statements, budgeting, cost accounting.
• Excellent communication to explain numbers to non-finance.
• Detail oriented with analytical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budget, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning processes
• Build and maintain financial models, including scenario and sensitivity analyses
• Consolidate inputs from department heads and challenge assumptions constructively
• Prepare monthly management reports, variance analyses and KPI dashboards
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and communicate recommendations
• Support quarterly and annual business reviews and executive presentations
• Act as the finance partner to business units advising on pricing, cost management, headcount, and capital investment decisions
• Evaluate business cases, ROI, and project proposals
• Guide, review, and develop junior and mid-level analysts
• Set priorities, assign work, and ensure accuracy and timeliness of deliverables
• Promote best practices in modeling, documentation, and data quality
• Streamline reporting and forecasting processes through automation
• Work with Accounting to align actuals and management reporting
• Strengthen financial controls and support audit requests

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting & Economics

Tools

SAP

Oracle

NetSuite

Anaplan

Hyperion

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Python

Job description

We Connect Hr Solutions Opc is seeking a Senior FP&A professional in the Philippines to lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning. You will build and maintain financial models, consolidate inputs, and provide insightful analyses to guide senior leadership.

The role partners with business units on pricing, cost management, headcount, and capital investment decisions. You will mentor analysts, streamline reporting, ensure data quality, and support audits while upholding accuracy