Your role is crucial in guiding a company's financial strategy, improving performance, and ensuring long-term financial health.
Key Responsibilities:
- analysing financial results: after cleaning up the data, you analyse the historical information using ratios and metrics to determine patterns. Your job is to identify trends and compare the performance with other companies in the industry. You can evaluate the company's value and find ways to improve investment income from the analysis.
- forecasting and making projections: your analysis reveals company performance predictions. You can find various financial models to help you make projections and predict the company's future performance. If you are analysing the viability of investment opportunities, the financial models help you make investment decisions.
- developing recommendations: as a financial analyst, your job goes beyond crunching numbers and creating financial models. You provide recommendations on ways to improve business operations based on the projections. For instance, you list viable investment opportunities and suggest ways to improve revenue and market share. Aside from writing reports, you make presentations to clients and investors.
- risk analysis: as a financial analyst, you can specialise in risk analysis and assess potential risks in a company's financial strategy. You help the managers identify sources of loss and minimise the risks involved in financial investments to increase profits.
ALSO
As a finance data analyst you will:
- Provide analytics & design reports on financial and operational aspects of the business
- Prepare business plans and feasibility studies for various projects of the business
- Data quality management, processing and integration for understanding and distribution of results
- Ad hoc data analysis tasks to formulate strategic planning
- Product stock monitoring in collaboration with all involved departments
- Writing finance & sales reports with Data Analysis (ERP & Power Business Intelligence) and
- monitoring annual sales plan
- Suggestions for improvement in existing procedures
Qualifications
Comfort to work with numbers
Extensive experience in Excel & other reporting tools
Experience in Microsoft PowerBI data visualization tool is desired
Excellent data analysis and data processing skills
Fluency in English
University Degree in Finance/ Statistics/ Economics or equivalent/ Information Technology
Who are your colleagues?
As a financi
- analysing financial results: after cleaning up the data, you analyse the historical information using ratios and metrics to determine patterns. Your job is to identify trends and compare the performance with other companies in the industry. You can evaluate the company's value and find ways to improve investment income from the analysis.
- forecasting and making projections: your analysis reveals company performance predictions. You can find various financial models to help you make projections and predict the company's future performance. If you are analysing the viability of investment opportunities, the financial models help you make investment decisions.
- developing recommendations: as a financial analyst, your job goes beyond crunching numbers and creating financial models. You provide recommendations on ways to improve business operations based on the projections. For instance, you list viable investment opportunities and suggest ways to improve revenue and market share. Aside from writing reports, you make presentations to clients and investors.
- risk analysis: as a financial analyst, you can specialise in risk analysis and assess potential risks in a company's financial strategy. You help the managers identify sources of loss and minimise the risks involved in financial investments to increase profits.
ALSO
As a finance data analyst you will:
- Provide analytics & design reports on financial and operational aspects of the business
- Prepare business plans and feasibility studies for various projects of the business
- Data quality management, processing and integration for understanding and distribution of results
- Ad hoc data analysis tasks to formulate strategic planning
- Product stock monitoring in collaboration with all involved departments
- Writing finance & sales reports with Data Analysis (ERP & Power Business Intelligence) and
- monitoring annual sales plan
- Suggestions for improvement in existing procedures
Qualifications
Comfort to work with numbers
Extensive experience in Excel & other reporting tools
Experience in Microsoft PowerBI data visualization tool is desired
Excellent data analysis and data processing skills
Fluency in English
University Degree in Finance/ Statistics/ Economics or equivalent/ Information Technology
Who are your colleagues?
As a financial analyst, you work with accountants, finance business partners, finance managers and finance assistant roles. Since you work with financial data, you may work close to business development managers, chief executive officers (CEOs) and other specialists, including portfolio managers, business analysts and data analysts.
What skills does a financial analyst need?
As a financial analyst, you require interpersonal skills to work closely with various professionals in the accounting and finance departments. Your critical thinking skills also help you make good decisions on investment opportunities.