Financial Analyst

Job Description The Financial Analyst will be based in Prai, Penang. Responsible for preparing and analyzing financial reports in support of business needs in order to ensure charges and headcount are passed to the correct business units and to ensure accurate and timely reporting..We are looking for someone who demonstrates:
?Intense collaboration
?Passionate customer focus
?Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution
?Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement
?Relentless drive to win
Here is a glimpse of what you?ll do:
?* Assist in the timely preparation and review of consolidated financial statements.
?* Complete all relevant data entry, repair data entry as required by all team members.
?* Input journal entries.
?* Aggregate and prepare actual and forecast financial data. Compare the current forecast against the prior forecast.
?* Develop detailed commentary correlating physical activity at reporting entities to changes in forecasts and to deviations from targeted financial metrics.
?* Assist in month end and quarter end close with journal entry registrations.
?* Assist in quarterly reviews and year-end audit activities.
?* Advise reporting entities on corporate accounting policies and U.S. GAAP.
?* Generate/review financial key operating statistics and work with locations to assure adherence to data and calculation definitions.
?* Analyze actual and forecast data and provide detailed commentary correlating physical activity at reporting entities to changes in forecasts, addressing deviations from targeted financial metrics, as well as addressing balance sheet variances.
?* Liaise between corporate tax, treasury and other financial departments and regional and local finance managers in developing internal working partnerships.
?* Generate financial reports for review by leadership team.
?* Prepare reports (scheduled and ad-hoc) in support of financial analysts and/or leadership team.
?* Conduct headcount reporting for business unit.
?* Conduct cost analyses as required.
?* Makes recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies.
?* Coordinates with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, trended future requirements and operating forecasts.