Financial Planning Sr. Analyst

About the Role

The Financial Planning Sr. Analyst supports the FP&A team with financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. The role emphasizes technical aspects of financial planning, ensuring data accuracy and enabling strategic decision-making to support month-end closing, forecast accuracy, and cash flow management. This position partners with multiple functions to drive performance and efficiency across the cement and SG&A cost base.

What You'll Do

• Assist in month-end closing by reviewing actual results, creating and reviewing accruals and provisions, and analyzing variances vs forecasts and prior periods.

• Support invoice and purchase requisition approvals, ensuring proper accounting allocation and alignment with forecasts.

• Help develop forecasts and budgets for SG&A costs (IT, HR, top management, legal, finance, sales and marketing) and analyze variances.

• Conduct variance analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for cost control and optimization; ensure SG&A spending aligns with budget.

• Prepare dashboards on country people costs by entity, cost center and account; monitor variances vs headcount plans for direct and subcontracted labor; allocate costs for new hires per reporting standards.

• Assist in preparing and consolidating financial statements for budgeting, forecasting, and medium-term planning; perform detailed profitability and margin analyses; prepare and review reports.

• Support FP&A presentations to senior management with insights and recommendations.

• Contribute to benchmarking analyses against peers to assess financial performance, cost structures and efficiency.

• Maintain financial data in systems; assist in implementing/ upgrading financial software and ERP; develop and maintain models to support decision making.

• Ensure compliance with policies and controls; support internal and external audits with documentation.

• Follow HARP compliance practices to align with group rules, including cost allocation, cost center details, variable and fixed allocations, headcount definitions, etc.

• What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; CPA or CMA is a plus.

• 4-6 years of FP&A and Controlling experience.

• Technical skills: Budgeting, Forecasting, Controlling, SAP, Financial Modeling, Advanced Excel, Variance Analysis, Scenario Planning & Sensitivity Analysis.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; high level of analytical ability; detail-oriented and accurate.