Planning Budgeting and Financial Analysis (PBFA) Analytics Manager - Rapid (Karachi)

The opportunity (Assistant Director)

As we roll out ‘All In” across our firms, the PBFA function becomes even more critical to help maintain/improve profitability and provide strategic insights. The support role will be instrumental in helping the ASU PBFA Lead to carry out this role.

This role requires a finance professional offering support to the MENA ASU PBFA Lead on P&L analysis and other KPIs. The role will establish best in class support, functional expertise and reporting solutions with a particular focus on analytics and financial modelling.

Your key responsibilities:

• Develop a good understanding of the PBFA cycle in a year, along with SL performance KPIs.
• Conduct data analysis on large sets of data, to give leadership insights on performance and profitability, to drive business decisions.
• Lead in development of financial models for different scenarios to assess impacts of changing levers.
• Support Operations lead in the root cause analysis of variances and identification of possible solutions to resolve issues.
• With time, develop effective working relationships with the extended Finance team and ASU leadership team.
• Participate in various improvement initiatives and information gathering activities within PBFA space.
• Be the Go To Person for all analysis and financial modelling.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Keen to solve problems and provide a credible solution.
• Ensure delivery of exceptional client service to all stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good time management skills and able to balance multiple priorities by considering risk, importance and level of urgency.
• Eagerness to learn quickly, be proactive and ask questions.
• Well-developed listening skills.

To qualify for the role you must be:

• Willing to working in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic.
• Able to interact well with people at all levels within the firm and build strong relationships.
• Having strong knowledge of MS Office Packages. Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI and Word in particular.
• Having excellent communications and organizational skills.
• Detail oriented and eager to analyze and solve complex cases
• Have a finance related degree or qualified accountant
• Have 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Be innovative, confident and creative thinker with ability to make quick decisions.
• Willing to work in a flexible working pattern