Finance Analyst

The Finance Analyst will provide timely, relevant, and accurate information, along with insightful analysis, to support decision-making. The role involves enabling swift data extraction and visualization and enhancing visibility and transparency of key business metrics. The focus is on delivering meaningful insights to support the continued and sustainable profitable growth of the Filtrona business.

This is a 3-months contractual role.

• Provide actionable insights, identify focus areas, and run simulations to help site management optimize cost levels in line with forecasted business activity. This includes monthly tracking and action monitoring, working collaboratively with site teams across functions, and creating visibility for the global manufacturing team regarding improvement actions.
• Facilitate adoption of BI tools, especially Power BI. This includes developing dashboards and Power Query models to improve efficiency in data extraction and visualization.
• Understand diverse internal and external data sources and their architecture. Be able to integrate various data sources to enable seamless automation of business analysis, resulting in optimized financial workflows and enhanced efficiency.
• Perform analysis using large, complex datasets and enhance reporting to improve performance tracking against targets and identify trends.
• Contribute effectively to the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes, including developing templates to support end-to-end planning and forecasting.
• Collaborate across business units and stakeholders, especially with group support functions such as Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations, and Procurement.
• Conduct price, mix, and volume analysis to support margin improvement initiatives.
• Participate in various business projects.

What we are looking for

• At least 8 years of work experience in Finance, with a minimum of 6 years in FP&A
• Strong financial and quantitative analytical skills
• Ability to take ownership of tasks or processes and see them through from inception to completion
• Proven track record in developing and implementing value-added financial analysis
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing and synthesizing complex financial data into meaningful executive summaries
• Advanced Excel skills; proficiency in MS Office and data management; Power BI skills are an added advantage
• Self-awareness and the ability to handle tight deadlines
  

About Filtrona

Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions, tear tapes and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 9 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centres, an accredited laboratory and a centre of excellence focused on sustainability. The company has over 2000 employees serving customers across 120 countries.

Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.

For more information, please visit www.filtrona.com