Business Analyst

**Job Description**:- Responsible as Business Partner for Business unit and Value stream responsible for analyzing and monitoring current, future, and strategic cost initiatives (activities such as cost initiatives, forecasting, internal reporting, variance analysis, modeling and etc.)- Working as a member of the controlling team, this position primarily performs day-to-day finance related activities designed to analyze and monitor the company's cost initiatives and drive for results.- KPI tracking and analysis for plant by value stream and highlight opportunities and risks for management attention.- On-time monthly reporting of plant KPI by value stream to manufacturing Department Heads and quarterly to the Board.- Monitoring plant overheads by value stream and highlight significant deviation, ensure corrective measures are specified and track that the measures are implemented.- Manufacturing location decision analysis to assist business unit decision.- Develop financial analysis tools to assist in management decision.- Costing of new products and guiding project managers on cost decisions- Tracking of new and transferred products' details and cost performance.- Maintenance of Costing/Accounting Data in SAP system.- Transfer Price calculation, maintenance and communication.- Cost tracking and analysis of key products in the plant against provided target.- Ensure improvement activities on key products have been specified by respective departments and track their implementation.- Responsible for the forecast and product costing of new products during annual Business Plan.- Become a key user in SAP knowing necessary functionalities and advise/guide fellow associates.- Documentation of Working Instructions for existing and new tasks.- Undertake improvement activities/projects in the department.**Qualifications**:- Professional qualification such as ACCA/CA/CPA is an added advantage- Minimum 5 years of working experience in Financial planning and analysis / Controlling supporting in manufacturing environment- Strong communication and interpersonal skills- Able to manage tasks with high complexities and comfortable with ambiguity- Must always be a self-starter able to work independently and interface with all relevant internal teams and external business partners.- Knowledge in Excel and business intelligence tools and dashboard (Microsoft Power BI)- SAP Experience is an advantageAdditional InformationBy choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce - EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled.