Finance Business Analyst

Finance Business Analyst

What is the job about? 

The Business Analyst supports the WU Plants with information, analysis, financial forecasting, and cost budgeting. The position coordinates and work closely with the different stakeholders in the plants, supply chain and sales functions. Duties include researching trends in Labor, production, and overhead costs of the division, cluster, region or other defined business dimensions. This position directly contributes to strategic decisions, providing both a backward and forward-looking view.. 

Your main responsibilities:

You will support the plant management team in the region and be responsible for the financial elements on the plant that constitutes several factories. You will be a valued and important contributor in delivering financial transparency and analysis that will strengthen the foundation for executing business plans and decision making in the plant. You will participate in a range of controlling tasks covering monthly reporting, forecast, budget, target setting, business cases, costing projects, ad-hoc analysis and centralized projects, thereby directly impacting the core business at Grundfos.

Your primary tasks involve but not limited to:

• Examine the data of internal or external data sources and use their findings to help the finance business partners to impact business decisions. These analyses will span from focusing on longer term investment-related business decision to short term day-to-day operations of the business.
• Prepare complex analysis, continued development of monitoring and high-quality reporting of financial performance within the performance unit.
• Support business cases and projects in close cooperation with business stakeholders in an EtE perspective
• Supports the Finance Business Partner to contribute with a constant focus on performance management, with high quality analysis to strengthen the business decision- making process
• Prepares Budgets, Forecast and Strategic planning and helps securing that planning is supported by initiatives and corrective actions.
• Oversees full cost allocation and optimizes contribution to Group Profitability on relevant dimensions. Focus on trends, inefficiencies and improvements will be the main focus.
• Prepares material and participates in quarterly business reviews.
• Analyses and reports deviations between budgets, forecasts and actuals.
• Super user in dashboard designs, deployment incl. periodic data sourcing.
• Support in ad-hoc analysis requested from the FBP.
• Participate in global business analysis projects.

Your background

• BS in Finance/Economics or similar paired with 3 to 5 years of experience in Finance/Plant Controlling
• Fluent in English and Chinese.
• Experience working in a large manufacturing/industrial environment is preferred
• Knowledge of the plans, processes and activities within the functional area in finance is preferred
• SAP and BW knowledge is needed. TM1 is preferable.
• High level of experience  in the Microsoft tools especially Excel.
• Experience with Power BI and VBA is an advantage

   We look forward to hearing from you.