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Advanced Specialist, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis
Location
Philippines
Posted
96 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Advanced Specialist, Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis
Pearson VUE
• Provide robust financial reporting, planning, and analysis support to the Virtual Learning business. • Deliver accurate and insightful P&L reporting and variance analysis. • Provide high‑quality analysis to support business decisions. • Produce and analyse revenue metrics, dashboards, and forecasts using data and visualisation tools. • Support target setting, budgeting, and forecasting cycles by challenging assumptions and consolidating inputs. • Act as a finance partner for revenue‑related projects, ensuring accuracy in project setups and accounting treatments. • Apply a strategic lens to identify opportunities to improve cost efficiency and performance. • Work closely with finance and non‑finance stakeholders to ensure financial information is clearly understood and effectively used.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis or a closely related finance role.
- Strong accounting knowledge, ideally with experience in project accounting and revenue‑related activities.
- Confident analysing complex data, building models, and presenting insights to both finance and non‑finance audiences.
- Clear and persuasive communication, adapting style to different stakeholders.
- Strong prioritisation skills and judgment, particularly in fast‑moving or ambiguous environments.
- Comfortable working independently while collaborating across a global, matrixed organisation.
- Experience with finance systems (Oracle preferred) and data or visualisation tools (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau).
- Advanced Excel user with a high standard of accuracy and quality to work.
- A professional accounting qualification is preferred, but equivalent experience will be considered.
Benefits
- Exposure to a broad FP&A remit within a dynamic business area.
- The opportunity to influence decision‑making through high‑impact financial insight.
- Collaboration with experienced finance and business leaders across regions.
- Development of skills across reporting, planning, forecasting, and strategic finance.
- Career growth within a global, purpose‑driven organisation.
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