Senior Analyst, Corporate Planning

Overview of Corporate Planning

• To be assigned to FP&A team under Corporate Planning
• Role of FP&A team is to support decision making and execution at entire company level and business unit level based on the expertise of accounting/financial and strategic thinking. FP&A is a business partner of senior management and business heads.

Background of hiring

• MIMS currently operates multiple businesses in 17 countries in APAC. Under increasing diversity and complexity, the need to support senior management and business heads in terms of not only company/business strategy planning but also execution is increasing.

Role and Responsibilities

• In addition to supporting company-wide management, FP&A support for specific business units (out of 5 total) is included in the role and responsibilities.

1. Company level strategy planning and execution support

- Support company level strategy planning, including discussion with senior management and preparing materials for their decision-making

- Manage and execute budgeting and forecasting at company level

- Prepare monthly reporting materials in relation to business progress and give sharp implications to management through analysis

- Improve operational process to enable the above activities by collaborating with BPR team under Corporate Planning

- Collaborate closely with and report to the HQ in Japan on financial projects to drive business expansion and operational improvements

2. Business level strategy planning and execution support

- Support specific business strategy planning, including discussion with business heads and preparing materials for their decision-making

- Manage and execute budgeting and forecasting at business level

- Prepare monthly reporting materials in relation to business progress and give sharp implications to business heads through analysis

- Design and monitor KPIs which fit the business strategy

- Improve operational process to enable the above activities by collaborating with BPR team under Corporate Planning

3. Others

- Organize and facilitate Executive Committee meetings and similar high-level meetings.

- Design and implement Delegation of Authority

- Ad-hoc projects to deal with company-level material matters

Required experience and skills

(Requirements)

- More than three years of experience in the accounting and/or finance field

- Analytical ability and insight enabling to find implication to business strategy based on financial data

- Ability of understanding multiple business models and their strategy deeply

- Business level English

- Proficient in Japanese as this role needs to communicate and work closely with colleagues in Japan Headquarter.

- Persistence and strong sense of responsibility/ownership to complete everything to end

- Advanced analysis and data process skill using MS Office Excel

(Preferred)

- Work experience in FP&A (Budgeting and Forecasting)

- Experience in improvement of business processes