
Subject Matter Expert, Financial Planning & Analytics
- Cebu City, Cebu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Acts as a finance business partner to Sales, Product Management, and Regional Finance stakeholders, with responsibility over SG&A trend analysis, revenue forecasting, incentive plan tracking, and strategic decision support.
- Partner with Sales (e.g., VP Sales, Regional Sales VP’s, and Regional Sales Managers) and Finance teams to track, measure, and evaluate customer revenue risks and opportunities.
- Lead analysis of SG&A for a variety of departments supporting cost-saving initiatives and ensuring planning accuracy.
- Support the development, update and monitoring of monthly sales forecasts, strategic plans, and annual operating plans.
- Support the design, accuracy, implementation, and usage/maintenance of various forecasting and reporting tools such as Power BI, Salesforce, Hyperion, and OneStream
- Drive transformation and automation efforts to enhance reporting and reduce manual workload.
- Develop rhythm, metrics, tools, and resources to assist in reporting and tracking revenue by customer and product category
- Serve as a key point of contact for executive dashboards, financial insights, and performance metrics.
- Provide leadership with visibility to bookings, backlog, and forecast data
- Analyze revenue forecasts for accuracy and help drive accountability
- Coordinate with local and divisional teams for monthly close and forecast updates.
- Track Sales Team bonus and incentive plans, ensuring alignment with performance metrics.
- Prepare and maintain SOPs and documentation for all supported processes and tools.
- Deliver ad hoc analysis for commercial strategy, volumetric forecasts, and business cases.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably in a manufacturing or commercial finance setting or a similar role in a shared services or multinational environment.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerBI, and data mining; High financial systems aptitude
- Experience with Power BI, Hyperion, Salesforce, or OneStream preferred.
- Analytical thinker with attention to detail and business acumen.
- Track record of driving continuous improvement or automation initiatives.
- Experience supporting sales or product management functions.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience in supporting stake holders in North America (or other regions) business units in a shared service or global operations environment.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence decision-makers across time zones.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, organization and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High level of customer focus and a positive attitude.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-quality deliverables.