The Financial Planning & Control Senior analyst is a critical, high-impact role responsible for driving the company's financial planning, performance measurement, and strategic resource allocation. This position owns the full cycle of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, delivers actionable insights to executive leadership, and ensures the financial integrity of the organization. Key focus areas include global consolidations, intercompany reconciliation, in-depth cost accounting, and rigorous Capital Expenditure (CapEx) control. This role is essential for translating complex financial data into strategies that optimize profitability and enforce financial policy across the organization

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning, Analysis, and Reporting:

• Conduct detailed variance analysis of actual results versus budget and forecast, providing insightful commentary and explanations for discrepancies.
• Support the annual budgeting process, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support business initiatives, pricing decisions, and investment analysis.

Consolidation and Intercompany Control:

• Provide support and analysis to prepare accurate consolidate monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts and financial reports for internal stakeholders

• Execute all necessary consolidation journal entries
• Maintain, reconcile and control intercompany accounts
• Collaborate with accounting teams across different legal entities to standardize intercompany processes and reporting.

Cost Accounting and Operations:

• Oversee cost accounting activities, including the accurate allocation of costs, property valuation, and determination of product/service profitability.
• Analyze operational costs and spending to identify trends, inefficiencies, and cost-saving opportunities.

Capital Expenditures Control

• Monitor, track, and analyze actual project expenditures against approved CapEx budgets and forecasts
• Develop accurate, rolling forecasts for project spending and manage all budget change requests
• Prepare detailed variance analyses and control reports for project managers and executive leadership
• Enforce the company's capitalization policy and ensure expenditures adhere to accounting standards.
• Track financial commitments (Purchase Orders and contracts) to manage the remaining available budget

Compliance and Process Improvement:

• Contribute to the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Support external audit requests as needed.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience: 2–4 years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, or cost control, preferably within a project-based environment (e.g., Construction, IT, Engineering, Manufacturing).
• Technical Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced functions, modeling) and experience with a major ERP system (e.g., SAP PS, Oracle Financials, QuickBooks).
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial data clearly to non-financial audiences (e.g., project managers).

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as CPA, CMA, or PMP.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and terminology.