Finance Planning & Forecasting Analyst

Job title: Finance Planning & Forecasting Analyst

Company: Haleon


Job description: Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.About the roleThis Planning & Forecast Analyst role is to provide planning & forecasting support to either the Planning & Forecasting Lead or in-market FD. This includes managing the preparation of in-market annual and monthly forecasts. Alongside, preparing monthly management reports for the in-market FD to evaluate performance.Role Responsibilities

• Provide support to the market with the preparation of the monthly forecast (CMF), Annual Business Planning (ABP), Standards Setting (FLIP) and ad-hoc tasks.
• Responsible for the preparation of the monthly Sales, CoGs, A&P, OPEX (overall P&L) and Cash Flow forecast.
• Accountable for creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market (CCC process).
• Perform variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.
• Providing commentaries on variances for P&L and BS lines, vs Actuals, ABP, LY and prior forecast.
• Submission of CMF and ABP into BISON and owner of the annual cost Flip process.
• Preparation of internal management reports (e.g. MPR) for executive leadership.

Why you?Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree) in Finance, Accountancy, Business, Economics, IT
• Relevant experience (3-5 years) preferably within a similar operating model, similar sector and experienced in E-commerce model.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Financial Planning/Budgeting/FP&A/ FBP, preferably in FMCG
• Expertise in creating or extracting information from /to excel and use of advanced formulas.
• Proficient financial knowledge of analysis, evaluation, modelling and forecasting with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong commercial sense and business knowledge.
• Strong relationship management skills
• Experience working across a matrix environment.
• Strong focus on customer service
• Advanced listening skills. Able to interpret the stakeholder needs and views and manage them by providing suitable support and solutions.
• Personal integrity and professionalism; open and straight forward style
• Strong report writing skills.
• Coordination, planning and organization skills – demonstrated ability to prioritise workload in order to meet critical deadlines.

Location – this role is based in: Petaling JayaThis position is a grade: 8Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.Accommodation RequestsIf you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific accommodations you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable accommodations to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Expected salary:

Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Job date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:45:38 GMT

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