Associate Manager- Financial Planning & Analysis | Hybrid Work Setup
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Group FP&A liaison: Act as the main point of contact for the Group FP&A team, coordinating and liaising on all financial performance reporting requirements, timelines, and ad-hoc analysis to ensure accurate, timely, and aligned submissions to Group.
- Performance reporting & analysis: Produce monthly company-wide performance packs, consolidated variance analysis, KPI dashboards and adhoc reporting to explain business results and trends, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Planning & forecasting: Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic review cycles; build and maintain forward-looking enterprise models and scenario analysis, consolidating reconciled inputs from Operations, G&A, Marketing and Commercial teams.
- Ad‑hoc & strategic analysis: Deliver forward-looking project and strategy evaluations, benchmarking, price/volume mix and sensitivity analyses as required.
- Data integrity & systems: Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data held in systems; promote a single source of truth and continuous improvements in reporting processes.
- Automation & tooling: Develop repeatable processes and automation (Excel, ETL, BI tools) to scale analysis and reduce manual effort.
- Proactive escalation: Identify and escalate material financial issues or opportunities to relevant stakeholders; recommend corrective actions.
- Cross-functional support: Provide additional financial analysis, modelling, reporting or business partnering by coordinating inputs across domain teams to produce reconciled, company-wide outputs as requested by the department or company.
- Ad-hoc & broader finance support: Provide any additional financial analysis, modelling, reporting, or business partnering support as required by the department or company, covering cross-functional requests and urgent business needs.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related field
- Experience: ~4 years commercial/FP&A experience working with planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis processes preferred
- Technical skills: Highly advanced Excel skills (large datasets, pivot tables, modelling, automation); experience with financial systems and BI tools.
- Financial & commercial acumen: Strong understanding of accounting, cost control techniques, ROI mindset and commercial drivers.
- Analytical skills: Ability to structure large volumes of data into concise, actionable insights; strong quantitative and problem‑solving capability.
- Communication & influence: Able to present complex analysis clearly and influence stakeholders; comfortable working cross‑functionally.
- Behaviors: Organized, proactive, able to balance speed and accuracy, make independent decisions and work in a fast‑paced environment.
- Preferred: Experience in e‑commerce, logistics, fashion, or other fast‑moving consumer businesses.
- Certification: CPA preferred but not required
- Meticulous attention to detail, a self-starter attitude, strong sense of urgency, and consistent adherence to deadlines.
- The ideal candidate brings experience in accounting, audit, or shared services, coupled with a strong passion for rebuilding and optimizing processes and data flows.
- You thrive on identifying inefficiencies and are energized by the challenge of designing better ways of working.
The ZALORA Story
ZALORA is Asia’s leading online fashion, beauty, and lifestyle destination, and part of Global Fashion Group. As one of the region’s pioneering large-scale e-commerce platforms, ZALORA has established a strong presence across Southeast Asia, with key markets in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, and receives over 50 million visits monthly.
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