Job Title: FP&A Analyst
Location: Pakistan
Reports To: Director: FP&A, North America
Location: Remote (Based in Pakistan)
About the Role:
The FP&A Analyst provides decision support and financial expertise to the finance and market teams to drive the long-term growth ambitions of LIPTON Teas & Infusions. This individual will report to the Director, FP&A, North America and collaborate cross-functionally to provide insights that drive business performance and growth. This is an exciting opportunity to gain exposure to our USA and Canadian business.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to influence business owners, support thoughtful decision-making, and adapt to a rapidly evolving environment. This role will partner closely with a broad range of Finance and Business leaders and will work on designing, developing, and maintaining finance dashboards, month end close activities, monthly business reviews, and exploring commercial opportunities with the sales and marketing teams. It also focuses on identifying areas of improvement in the reporting and analysis of business performance and working with relevant stakeholders to deploy solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
· Apply financial knowledge and business understanding to develop financial models and analyses with minimal guidance, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that achieve results and drive improvements.
· Manage preparation of monthly financial reviews, forecasting, and reporting models and their continuous innovation and communication to finance and business partners.
· Lead month end close activities to analyze the variances vs budget and LE, ensure numbers reconcile and prepare reporting packs for the senior leadership.
· Automate financial database through Power Query / SQL / other tools and support visualization of data into Power BI.
· Support Cashup activities for US and Canada with clear insight on revenue and gross margin variances (Price/cost/mix)
· Partner with business leaders to provide financial insights and recommend actions to optimize business performance.
· Support sales and marketing teams to work out financials for business cases involving revenue and gross margin enhancement opportunities.
· Drive continuous improvement in reporting processes, tools, and systems.
· Collaborate with accounting teams to ensure accuracy and alignment of financial data.
· Have ability to independently influence and drive outputs, meet deadlines, and set clear expectations and roadmaps.
· An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment
Qualifications:
· Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
· 2 - 5 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or related roles. FMCG background is preferred but not mandatory.
· Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (SQL / Python/ Power Query), Visualization (Power BI / Tableau) and other financial systems such as SAP.
· Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
· Experience in delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
· Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
· Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
