FP&A Senior Analyst

Westlake Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

In this role you will support the global corporate FP&A function to drive growth and expense optimization within a complex, matrixed organization. You will partner with cross-functional teams to understand spending drivers, improve forecast accuracy, and communicate actionable insights to senior leadership. The position emphasizes data-driven decision making, continuous process improvement, and proactive risk and gap identification. This is a hands-on role that combines financial analysis with strategic perspective to influence resource allocation and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to analyse and manage expenses, providing actionable insights to drive cost efficiency and resource optimization
  • Analyse monthly and quarterly spending across departments, understanding variance drivers and recommending actions
  • Improve forecast accuracy by identifying cost drivers and updating assumptions
  • Use the forecast to help function leaders make decisions and act early when spending is off track
  • Develop dashboards, reports, and presentations to communicate financial results and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
  • Proactively identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and risks in financial reporting and work with partners to resolve them
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, automating and streamlining financial processes

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field
  • Experience in financial analysis in a large, complex organization
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel and comfort with large-scale data manipulation
  • Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and manage projects with competing priorities
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and increasing responsibility over time
  • Critical thinker with strong problem-solving ability
  • Thrives in ambiguity and adapts quickly
  • Clear, concise communicator who distills complex analysis into actionable insights
  • Excel proficiency
  • Data manipulation and analysis
  • Dashboards and reporting

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