Financial Planning

Responsible for working closely with CCAC business units to track financial performance and provide financial information, forecasting, and analysis to help guide decision-making and strategy setting. Ensures accuracy, and consistency of financial information across all reporting systems and management reporting compliance of all CCAC business units.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning and Forecasting

• Assists in the preparation of overall roll-up and consolidation to generate full CIC financials and analysis, ensuring alignment with business objectives/directions and understanding the implications and drivers of changes as well as communication and presentation of results measured against the plan, prior year, and prior estimates.
• Assists in providing management with in-depth analysis of the P&L vs Previous Estimate, Plan, Prior Year, and other base comparisons leading to the identification of risks and opportunities and recommendations for appropriate actions to address them.
• Ensures the accuracy, completeness, and reasonableness of all plan/forecast requirements to complete the full financial roll-up in a timely manner
• Ensures that the plan/forecast numbers are correct and consistent in all reporting systems
• Develop effective financial templates applicable to business models and requirements
• Develop internal plan calendars aligned with corporate deadlines.
• Design and improve planning templates for easier consolidation.
• Consolidate inputs, validate assumptions, and submit final outputs.
• Provide transparent, structured reports to BU heads and stakeholders.

Reporting and Analysis

• Ensures that actual data are secured to the level that is relevant both in the vertical and horizontal analysis of the financials as well as in the reporting packages
• Communicates and coordinates promptly any material deviation to plan/forecast and identifies any potential risks and/or opportunities
• Prepares and ensures that the monthly reporting package presents the correct figures and provides insightful analytics
• Organizes and controls all templates, schedules, reports, packages, presentation materials, references, and other supporting documents (soft or hardcopy), for common reference, and usage of the team and to different business units.
• Ensures all working templates, supporting schedules, and information with links, formulas, and logic is intact and saved in the shared folder for common reference, usage, and easy update.
• Coordinate with finance partners on monthly forecast schedules.
• Analyze OPEX and P&L, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Prepare timely reports comparing forecasts vs. Plan, LY, and prior estimates.

Others

• Practices continuous improvement on the planning, forecast and reporting processes (working templates & reports) to leverage available tools and systems and to cater to the needs of internal customers.
• Provides data support to update and achieve the Finance KPIs and other corporate-wide finance initiatives
• Establishes strong and effective working relationships with the team and all business unit counterparts.

• Other functions may be required to ensure business continuity.

• Provide financial insights to guide marketing strategies and product launches.

• Conduct ROI evaluations for promotional campaigns.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to align financial and business goals.

• Track and analyze actual vs. forecasted OPEX results.

• Identify unusual movements, errors, or missing transactions.

• Recommend process improvements to improve accuracy and efficiency.

• Prepare accurate, concise, and insightful financial reports.

• Develop narratives and visual reports to support decision-making.

• Ensure timely submission and error-free deliverables.

• Leverage finance and technology knowledge to optimize processes.

• Collaborate with operational teams to drive efficiency and accuracy.
• Champion process improvements across financial operations.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy or Financial Management
• Minimum 2-years experience in Commercial Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis, and/or Corporate Finance
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Preferably with experience in financial management reporting and/or business partnering
• Knowledge of the use of ERP systems, financial modeling, planning/forecasting software, and BI tools is a plus
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
• CPA, CMA or other Finance-related certification is an advantage