About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another's experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Description

Vantage is looking for a hands-on, resourceful and detail-oriented Lead Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, to deliver accurate, timely and useful information to business units and management regarding budgeting, monthly actuals and forecasts.The Lead Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis will engage in deep dive analysis to understand business performance and support broad company decision-making. The ideal candidate will also be well-organized, used to work in a fast-paced and complex environment, and demonstrate strong business stakeholder management skills.

Essential Job Functions

Work closely with the FP&A Senior leaders to deliver accurate, timely and useful information to Business Units and Management, to enable identification of operational gaps and opportunities and support decision making
Support business decision making by assessing risks and opportunities, and engaging in deep dive analysis to understand business performance
Work closely with Business Units and provide guidance on: Budget requests (including P&L and headcount requests), committed, invoiced, and forecasted spend as well as management approval process for unbudgeted spend requests
Lead development of standard monthly and quarterly reports, which are used to make data-driven and economically sound recommendations to Management and Shareholders
Continually enhance financial and key performance metrics reporting and analysis based on management and business needs. Proactively seek and suggest innovative ideas or methods to improve Vantage APAC efficiency and profitability

Duties

Prepare material for monthly and quarterly financial reporting to Management and Shareholders
Drive the implementation of budgeting tools and PowerBI business intelligence dashboards for reporting / forecasting purposes
Analyse and benchmark site-level profitability, and contribute to monthly actuals / forecast variance analysis to identify operational gaps and opportunities
Run monthly calls with Business Units to review variance analysis and gather details on forecasted / upcoming spend
Address questions from Business Units, Management or Shareholders on figures reflected in the management reports
Support overall business planning and budgeting process, including preparing or reviewing overall bottoms up P&L budgets in partnership with Business Units
Drive budgeting process to ensure all Business Unit budget submissions are on schedule and consolidate budget requests for Management
Develop budget and forecast models for Vantage APAC business
Additional duties as assigned from time to time by CFO or other Senior Finance leaders, including adhoc analysis

Job Requirements

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Utilitise functions, pivot tables, formulae for data manipulation, transformation, extraction and analysis
Connect data across various sources
Build financial models for budgeting and forecasting including sensitivity and scenario planning

Proficiency in PowerBI

Acquire data from primary/secondary data sources and perform data cleaning
Design, build and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports and alerts
Create effective visuals like charts, graphs, comparison tables to represent data clearly

Competency in Microsoft Powerpoint
Basic knowledge of programming languages like Python, R or VBA preferred for automating tasks
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain data insights and financial concepts to an audience that may or may not be financially trained
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills with the capacity to analyse problems, interpret data trends and propose solutions
Demonstrate collaboration when working with other teams to understand and address their needs

Other Information

77 Robinson Road, #34-01, Singapore(Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar/ Shenton)
Permanent position, hybrid working arrangement model.
High visibility and influence with senior leadership
Opportunity to build and transform FP&A processes
Regional APAC exposure with broad business partnering

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