Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Daraz Pakistan; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan is seeking an experienced professional to manage financial planning and performance targets. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in business analytics, strong financial modeling skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. This role offers a competitive salary, an international working environment, and the chance to learn from a world-leading ecosystem.

Benefits

Competitive salary and incentive package

International working environment

Rigorous training and exposure

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in an analytical/business partnership role.
• Strong grip on numbers with excellent financial modeling skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the Financial Planning Models and performance against the budget.
• Manage performance against the budget for Daraz and report on deviations.
• Build and manage financial databases with a focus on data analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Microsoft Excel

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in accountancy or MBA

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

About Daraz

Founded in 2015, Daraz is South Asia’s leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. It empowers more than 100,000 active sellers with world-class marketplace technology to reach the fast-growing consumer class in a region of 500 million people. Through Daraz Express and Daraz Pay, it operates the most efficient and digitalised logistics and payments infrastructure in its markets. Daraz’ vision is to be a champion of South Asia serving 100 million customers and businesses by 2030.

For more information, please visit www.daraz.com

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of the Financial Planning Models, collecting all inputs from relevant stakeholders and ensuring outputs represent a coherent future view of business delivery
• Ownership, governance, review and execution of monthly commercial targets
• Perform qualititative analysis of operational and financial data and ensure and maintain quality assurance in models
• Actualize financial models on monthly basis
• Build and manage financial databases by organizing and analyzing a wide range of data sources while interpreting and summarizing results
• Manage performance against the budget for each business and Daraz as a whole and report on deviations while working with relevant stakeholders for resolution of same
• Work cross-functionally with commercial, marketing, data science and logistics teams, to identify new business drivers, opportunities & efficiency gains, and then help materialize them
• Prepares financial reports for internal/ external use at the business unit/ entity/ department and Daraz level by collecting, analyzing, formatting, and presenting information
• Assist Financial planning and performance manager in preparing budgets and forecasts
• Assist the operations and finance teams in monthly reporting
• Support functional stakeholders by developing new reports / analysis required by the business
• Support continuous improvement of planning processes through gathering feedback from teams and understanding their needs
• Provide data to all stakeholders in order to help calculate metrics, report financials, and support analysis and decision making

Skills / Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience working in an analytical / business partnership role with Commercial & Business teams
• A degree in accountancy or an MBA from top business school + technical skills in Six Sigma/PMI will be an advantage
• Detailed oriented mindset with a strong grip on numbers
• Excellent financial modeling skills
• Go-getter, problem-solving attitude with a proactive approach to getting things done
• Superior organizational skills to manage multiple priorities, and the flexibility to adapt to changing scope and evolving business requirements
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across management levels
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Power-point is essential
• Prior experience working with projects involving system integrations is strongly preferred

What We Offer

• International working environment in a start-up setting, and a unique opportunity to learn from the best in e-commerce (Alibaba Group) and business growth
• A platform to learn from Alibaba’s world-leading ecosystem
• Rigorous training and exposure in team management, leadership, business analytics, and operations
• An opportunity to train the next generation of business leaders in the ‘tech’ industry
• Competitive salary and incentive package