We’re Hiring: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
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Role: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Work Arrangement: Work from Office
Location: Philippines - Pampanga (Angeles)
Schedule: Morning Shift
Job description
What You Will Do
- Own the operating and capital expenditure build, challenging cost assumptions, headcount-driven costs and phasing across entities, and tracking spend against approval.
- Own the monthly management accounts, Board reporting pack and supporting schedules for your pillar – accurate, supported and delivered on the agreed calendar.
- Review balance sheet positions, reconciliations and movements, ensuring balances are supported, explained and cleared on a defined cycle.
- Own cashflow reporting and forecasting, including drivers of movement, working‑capital effects and liquidity commentary.
- Analyse performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, and explain material variances in business language to Finance executives and business leaders.
- Oversee intercompany cost allocations, accounting entries and reconciliations across multiple entities and currencies.
- Lead cost-benefit analyses and business cases for investments and change initiatives, including assumptions, sensitivities and post‑implementation review.
- Own sustainability reporting: data sourcing, controls, assurance readiness and alignment to the reporting calendar and applicable frameworks.
- Contribute to strategic projects and due diligence alongside the wider team, working concurrently across assigned workstreams.
- Lead, coach and develop two direct reports, setting clear ownership of financial areas and building capability and bench strength within the pillar.
- Manage workload and deadlines across the team so that quality holds through close, and maintain a named backup for every critical deliverable.
- Drive process improvement: standardise and template the close pack, re‑level reporting deadlines, and automate recurring reports, reconciliations and reconciliation‑heavy processes.
- Support annual and interim audits, due diligence, compliance reviews and regulatory requests relating to your pillar, and maintain financial controls and documentation fit for audit.
Qualifications and requirements
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with an active or valid professional licence or accreditation.
- At least 8 years' experience in management accounting, FP&A or financial reporting.
- Experience managing or supervising an accounting or finance team, including responsibility for review and sign‑off.
- Proven experience in a multinational, multi‑entity environment – intercompany transactions, multiple currencies and coordination across jurisdictions.
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards, financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, balance sheet and cashflow reporting.
- Strong understanding of key balance sheet metrics and financial ratios, with the ability to interpret movements in liquidity, working capital, leverage and cashflow and their impact on overall financial performance.
- Experience preparing or reviewing business cases and cost‑benefit analyses.
- Sustainability or ESG reporting exposure, and Big Four experience, are advantageous but not required.
Technical Skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel – financial modelling, complex formulas, pivot tables, scenario analysis and large‑data handling.
- Strong working knowledge of ERP and accounting systems; experience with NetSuite OneWorld or a similar multi‑entity platform is preferred.
- Experience with budgeting, consolidation or business intelligence tools such as Planful, Power BI, Tableau or equivalent.
- Practical use of AI and automation tools for variance commentary, reporting and reconciliation – with the judgement to critically review AI‑generated output and uphold confidentiality, data security and human oversight.
- Confidence extracting, reconciling and interpreting financial and operational data across multiple systems.
How You Work
- Analytical and technically strong, with the judgement to know when a number needs challenging.
- Able to translate complex financial detail into clear management insight.
- Detail‑oriented and personally accountable for what you sign off.
- A capable leader and coach, and a credible partner to senior stakeholders.
- Calm under close deadlines, and able to balance competing priorities.
- Commercially aware, collaborative, and always looking for the better way to run a process.
What Success Looks Like in Your First Year
- The close pack and Board reporting are delivered on the agreed calendar, with no material restatements.
- You are trusted as the final approver for your pillar, with escalations limited to genuine exceptions.
- Your team's workload is balanced and sustainable, with no single point of failure on any critical deliverable.
- Recurring reporting and reconciliation effort is measurably reduced through templating and automation, and reporting deadlines are better spread across the month.
Why This Role
- Full ownership of a defined pillar with real decision rights — you approve your own work.
- Direct line to the Senior Manager, FP&A and visibility to Group Finance leadership and the Board reporting cycle.
- A single day shift, 08:00–17:00 PHT — no night shift rotation. Occasional scheduled coordination with overseas stakeholders is supported by the wider team.
- A team that is actively investing in automation and better process, not just producing reports.
- Competitive salary, benefits and professional development. Package details will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Perks & Benefits (Work From Office/Hybrid)
- Comprehensive health and life insurance on your 16th day of employment, covering 1 free dependent on the 16th day of employment
- Up to 24 leave credits per year
- Flexible leave credits which may be used for vacation, emergency and sick leaves
- Endless opportunities for career advancement
- Exclusive ATM inside the office for employee's convenience
- Annual Performance Review with Salary Increase
- We set you up for success with a company‑provided PC/Laptop and fiber internet connection
- Look forward to weekly office perks for work from office staff – Free Coffee, Meals and Beer Fridays!
- Top notch workplace with first class VIP lounge and game rooms
- Child friendly spaces to cater to the needs of employees with children, enhancing work‑life balance
- Participate and join our CS Social Clubs and Special Interest Groups to connect with colleagues
- Mental Wellness Employee Assistance program through Lifeworks
- In‑house psychiatrist available to support employees' well‑being
- Become part of the Employee Share Units program
- Cloudstaff Dream Points - To be used for bidding useful items like appliances, kitchenettes etc.
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