Senior Financial Planning Analyst

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Financial Planning Analyst to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, analyze costs, revenues, and performance indicators, develop cost optimization strategies, provide strategic support for organizational decisions, and implement effective processes that align the company's activities with its financial and strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

Synthetic and detailed analysis of costs, revenues, performance indicators and complex reporting

• Ensures that the necessary information is obtained from the organization's departments for the correct and timely preparation of financial reports and analyses, full data reconciliation and compliance with reporting requirements.
• Develops complex financial reports, including forecasts, benchmarking and performance indicators.
• Conducts advanced analysis, identifying trends and opportunities for efficiency.

Designs and implements cost optimization strategies

• Coordinates and implements strategies to optimize costs, investments and operational indicators, providing management with proposals based on predictive analysis and financial models.
• Assess the financial impact of cost, investment and operational indicator optimization initiatives, tracks their implementation, monitors and reports results and proposes adjustment solutions, where appropriate.

Strategic support for decision making at the organization level and on different business areas

• Provides advanced financial advice to executives and teams from other departments, using detailed scenarios, financial modelling and synthetic simulations to support strategic decisions.
• Ensures that departmental budgets are in line with the overall financial objectives of the company.
• Maintains constant communication with the allocated business areas, ensuring that they operate in accordance with the established procedures, decisions and strategies, prevents/identifies any deviations in advance and proposes effective solutions to alleviate them.
• Acts proactively by analyzing, identifying and signaling areas that require strategic adjustments or optimizations, signaling any operational or financial problems that require managerial decisions.

Responsibility for the realization, analysis and reporting of P&L, Cash, Balance Sheet, and of the allocated financial reports and analyses

• Analyzes synthetically and in detail the impact of revenues, costs, performance indicators in P&L, Cash and BS, ensuring complete data reconciliation, compliance with reporting requirements, explanation for the deviations from target and different periods.
• Proposes improvements to the reporting methodology to better align with the strategic objectives and requirements of the group.

Managing the financial control and purchasing process

• Analyzes and approves procurement orders, ensuring budgetary optimization and reducing financial risks.

Development of personalized financial analysis

• Performs advanced financial analysis for various business requests, for strategic projects, including risk assessments, simulations and highly accurate financial estimates.
• Actively contributes to the preparation of presentations for the management board, synthesizing and explaining complex data in a clear and action-oriented way.
• Analyzes the market and competitors.
• Performs the ad-hoc requests allocated.
• Provides support and assists the team in fulfilling all requests on time and correctly.

Financial system optimization and development

• Ensures the testing and implementation of new financial systems and instruments, identifying technological solutions that improve operational efficiency.
• Creates standardized procedures for automating financial reporting and improving the quality of reported data and maintains the ongoing update of procedures and work instructions in their area of activity.

Communication and cooperation within the team

• Actively contributes to defining and allocating team priorities, ensuring effective and structured communication, formulating proposals for optimizing operational processes and promoting initiatives aimed at improving the working environment and internal collaboration.

Skills:

• Minimum 5-7 years relevant experience in the financial and accounting field, with direct involvement in financial planning, analysis and reporting.
• Advanced leadership capabilities: Ability to work as the primary contact point between multiple departments for strategic projects.
• In-depth knowledge of financial analysis: Expertise in developing complex financial models and detailed long-term forecasts.
• Strategic role: The ability to actively contribute to defining the financial strategies of the company and aligning them with the general business objectives.
• Advanced presentation and influence skills: Ability to create and deliver top management or board presentations, translating complex data into clear and actionable recommendations.
• Advanced technology: Advanced use of the financial software and ERP, including the integration of financial systems to optimize processes and efficiency.
• Project management: Ability to manage complex and multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring compliance with deadlines and delivery of high-quality results.
• Relevant financial certifications: Professional certifications such as CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) or equivalent are an important advantage.
• Very good knowledge of the Romanian financial-accounting system and US GAAP.
• The management of reconciliation and budgetary control processes. (Excel, Power BI, ERP).
• Focus on solutions and long-term impact.
• Reporting automation and process standardization.
• Ability to synthesize large volumes of data to provide strategic insights.
• Advanced analytical thinking, synthesis and clear presentation of data for decision makers.
• Effective communication (team and interdepartmental).
• Strategic thinking, optimization oriented.